Resources – Reconstructing Judaism

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Collective Liberation Is Our Work: Diversity in the Jewish Community

June 13, 2025

https://vimeo.com/1093155576In this can’t-miss Evolve web conversation, Deitra Reiser, Ph.D., explores the meaning and importance of pursuing diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging in Jewish spaces. She eloquently defends Jewish investment in DEI initiatives at a time when such efforts face growing governmental hostility. Pressing forward, Reiser asserts, is ultimately about

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Shavuot and Accessing Torah for Tumultuous Times

May 27, 2025

“I know our ancestors had it rough, but honestly, what we’re living through feels almost unreal.” Do you find yourself feeling this in your heart? We thought the vulnerability we experienced after the Tree of Life shooting in October 2018 rocked our personal and communal lives enough. But just as

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Yom HaShoah Resource: Profile of Jean Améry

April 16, 2025

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

If God Had Only Given Us Reparations – Dayenu

April 7, 2025

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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Embracing Complexity and Empathy in the Passover Seder

April 2, 2025

The Passover seder is the most widely observed Jewish ritual. Food and family are, of course, big reasons why even the most secular Jews take a seat at the table. Yet many of us are also drawn into the conversation, one that spans generations and is marked by complexity and

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Passover and the Power of Memory

March 28, 2025

The joy of Passover comes from celebrating the our people’s liberation, but how can we celebrate in these troubling times?

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A Holiday of Opposites for an Upside-Down World

March 3, 2025

Rabbi Barbara Penzner writes that Purim is ultimately about the power of human beings to do what’s right.

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An Introduction to Reconstructionist Judaism

February 25, 2025

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”

February 20, 2025

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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Collective Liberation Is Our Work: Diversity in the Jewish Community

Shavuot and Accessing Torah for Tumultuous Times

Yom HaShoah Resource: Profile of Jean Améry

If God Had Only Given Us Reparations – Dayenu

Embracing Complexity and Empathy in the Passover Seder

Passover and the Power of Memory

A Holiday of Opposites for an Upside-Down World

An Introduction to Reconstructionist Judaism

RRC Music Collective performs “Kevod malkhut’kha yomeiru”

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