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Yom HaShoah Resource: Profile of Jean Améry

The Department for Thriving Communities is sharing a printable resource that congregations and individuals are welcome to use in connection with this year’s observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), which begins at sundown on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 and continues through the day on Thursday, April 24. The resource

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Book titled If God Had Only Given Us Reparations - Dayenu with matzah and spring flowers on a wooden surface.

If God Had Only Given Us Reparations – Dayenu

Building on the momentum of last year’s Haggadah supplement “Adding JOC Voices to Your Haggadah,” the Tikkun Olam Commission has developed a new Passover resource for 2025: If God Had Only Given Us Reparations – Dayenu. This resource applies the practice of reparations to our Reconstructionist Jewish liturgy as a

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An Introduction to Reconstructionist Judaism

Learn about the origins and history of the Reconstructionist movement; key differences between contemporary Jewish movements; values and guiding ideas of the Reconstructionist movement; Reconstructionist ideology on various topics such as God, Israel, and Peoplehood; important figures and milestones for the movement, and more. This resource includes information for educators,

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RRC Music Collective performs “Kevod malkhut’kha yomeiru”

The RRC Music Collective is a group of students at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College who have formed a community around creating and playing songs together. This a cappella performance is an interpretation of the Ashrei prayer, which itself is traditionally recited three times daily and drawn from Psalm 145. The

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