Tuesday, October 1, 2024 @ 1 p.m. EDT
On Tuesday, October 1 at 1 p.m. EDT, Rabbi Deborah Waxman and Rabbi William Plevan will reflect on the recently published Evolve symposium, Personal Practices to Defend Democracy. They will reflect on why devotion to democracy has been central to Reconstructionists from the beginning.
There is no charge required to register for an Evolve web conversation. Participants can interact with the speaker, making comments and asking questions.
Reconstructionists looked to democracy not only because it was the way of the land, but also because they invested democracy with the belief that it emerged from and pointed toward universal truths. In their view, democracy was the closest moderns could get to revelation in an age of relativism, multi-vocality and pluralism. They ultimately asserted that it was the next great stage shaping the evolution of Jewish civilization.
