Reconstructing Judaism

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WATCH: Inside the Parliament of the Jewish People

October 30, 2025

Why does the World Zionist Congress matter? It directs over $5 billion in global Jewish resources, shaping everything from land policy to religious life to what gets built – and importantly, where. Rabbi Waxman joined “Word on the Street Live” with J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah, to offer insight into the inner workings of the World Zionist Congress and to discuss the Reconstructionist values driving the progressive Hatikvah Slate.

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Wisdom from the Bimah

October 23, 2025

High Holy Days are an inflection point. They are a time to pause and absorb words of wisdom, comfort, and purpose from the bimah. As Reconstructionists across the country wrestle with the ongoing situation in the Middle East and search for light and joy, we want to share a few recent High Holy Day sermons with you. While our rabbis do not have all the answers, they have some, especially when they hold up a mirror to our collective struggles and speak about them with refreshing candor and insight.

Ritualwell Launches Jewish Writers’ Circles Across the World

September 9, 2025

To respond to the strains Jewish writers are experiencing, Ritualwell is launching a new initiative, Jewish Writers’ Circles. Starting this fall in multiple cities across North America and Europe, as many as twenty Jewish Writers’ Circles will meet monthly, with Ritualwell providing session guides and coaching support. These circles will nurture Jewish literary community, strengthen participants’ writing, and enrich their lives with Jewish wisdom.

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Antisemitism: Understanding Our Contemporary Moment

September 3, 2025

Thursdays, January 15, 22, 29 @ 8:00pm-9:30pm We are witnessing a resurgence of antisemitism across the political spectrum that, for many Jews, has strained relationships,

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The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s Move from the Inner-city to the Suburbs

August 19, 2025

Why continue to work on reparations when the environment seems so hostile to all things progressive? For one thing, the hardest hits coming down at the moment have the heaviest impact on people of color, whether it’s roundups and deportations of immigrants, abolition of DEI programs and bashing people of color as DEI hires, layoffs of civil service workers in federal jobs, banishing of Black history curriculums, shutdowns of abortion services or the ramping up of dirty fossil fuels. The hits aren’t equally distributed, and neither are the costs. We’re not starting on an equal playing field since so much that’s already owed is past due; therefore, the need to struggle for past-due reparations th

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Collective Liberation Is Our Work: Diversity in the Jewish Community

June 13, 2025

https://vimeo.com/1093155576In this can’t-miss Evolve web conversation, Deitra Reiser, Ph.D., explores the meaning and importance of pursuing diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging in Jewish spaces.

Statement on Attack at the Capitol Jewish Museum

May 22, 2025

We mourn the murders of Israeli Embassy staff members Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside Washington’s DC Capitol Jewish Museum. This heinous act should shake