Interactive Workshop: Joint Israel Commission: Shutafut (Partnerships)
January 28, 2025
https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/joint-israel-commission-shutafut-partnerships/
https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/joint-israel-commission-shutafut-partnerships/
Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech is excerpted in the Reconstructionist prayerbook.
The national holiday celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. offers ample opportunities for service, action and learning. There’s so much to learn about King’s too-short time on Earth. Too often, school lessons or public discussion of King sticks to a few words from a single speech, leaving out
Each year, as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we often focus on him as a singular leader, a towering figure in the civil rights Movement. Yet this perspective risks overshadowing the reality that no movement is built on one person alone. King himself understood that his influence was
Change is always happening. Our communities and their cultures are in a constant state of being and becoming, learning from the patterns of the past and adapting to the new circumstances of the present.
Every Monday, the Ritualwell team brings our community together for a 15-minute minyan focused on healing prayers. Join Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, Ritualwell’s Director of Virtual Content and Programs, for an extended 45-minute opportunity to share prayers for peace and healing, as well as prompts to inspire your own prayers through writing or art. No prior artistic experience is required; our emphasis is on creative expression. Please bring a journal and pen as well as any visual art materials (such as paper, colored pencils, watercolors, etc.) that you may wish to use.
Sometimes, small acts of courage and kindness matter more than storybook bravery
Every Monday, the Ritualwell team brings our community together for a 15-minute minyan focused on healing prayers. Join Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, Ritualwell’s Director of Virtual Content and Programs, for an extended 45-minute opportunity to share prayers for peace and healing, as well as prompts to inspire your own prayers through writing or art. No prior artistic experience is required; our emphasis is on creative expression. Please bring a journal and pen as well as any visual art materials (such as paper, colored pencils, watercolors, etc.) that you may wish to use.
Back to event home page We seek to build and maintain covenantal community across difference based on shared values and principles, including the centrality of relationships, and mutually agreed-upon behavior (also known as norms). Variations of the norms presented below have been created for and used by other Reconstructionist convenings,
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
