Founded in 1978, Havurah Shalom has grown from a small group of families to a membership of nearly 400 families. Affiliated with Reconstructionist Judaism, our progressive approach to Jewish life integrates traditional communal Jewish practices with the intellectual and political impulses of democracy and pluralism. We are open to all who
We are a group of very different people—Jew and non-Jew, men and women, straight and LGBTQ, people of different ethnicities, beliefs, political stripes, and backgrounds—who share one thing. We experience Judaism as a sort of magnetic force drawing us together, and within it we find, in one way or another, the
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
