Resources Following the Election

In this moving reflection, Rabbi Deborah Waxman shares her transformative experience on a service-learning trip to Israel with Yahel and Repair the World. Amid the complexities of a region in conflict, she discovers how hands-on service work—from weeding at a therapeutic farm for veterans to packing food for Bedouin villages—opens pathways to hope, agency and renewal when mere words and meetings cannot.

Purim is often described as a holiday of opposites, when up is down and down is up. Almost exactly five years ago, our world was turned upside down by COVID-19. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic.  Within days, life throughout North America shut down. At a time of heightened anxiety […]

Today Reconstructing Judaism joined with a diverse group of Christian and Jewish denominations in filing a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that would generally prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) agents from entering our houses of worship to conduct enforcement actions.