Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Texts for a Jewish Resistance Movement
February 3, 2017
These materials explore Jewish models of resistance to oppression.Â
These materials explore Jewish models of resistance to oppression.Â
During her first pregnancy, Rabbi Amy Klein shared this reflection on the experience of pregnancy in Israel.
Rabbi Jacob Staub reflects on the spirituality of anger, patience, and healing.Â
The story of Ruth, read on Shavuot, provides a powerful model for welcoming newcomers to the Jewish people.Â
Reconstructionist Jews believe that the Jewish people created the Torah and the Torah, in turn, has created and recreated the Jewish people throughout history. Shavuot, the festival of giving and receiving the Torah, should be central to our communal life.Â
This distance learning conference call explores the dynamics of worship and the human impulse to pray, some of the deep structures of Jewish prayer services, and specifically Reconstructionist liturgy.
This Reconstructionist curriculum on wealth inequality was written for the movement’s Tikkun Olam commission in the winter of 5777 (2016-2017).
This resolution on the environment was adopted by the Reconstructionist movement in the 1980s.
Large version of welcoming poster for synagogues
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
