Rabbi Sandra Lawson, last month, delivered the 2024 Pride Keynote Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg. Lawson, RRC’ 18, is the inaugural director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Reconstructing Judaism. She titled her talk, “Building Bridges Across Identities & Communities.”
Cyd, Weissman, Reconstructing Judaism’s vice president for engagement and innovation, was a featured panelist at a high-profile Shavuot program held at the Weitzman Musuem of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
The panel “Only in America: The Evolving Place of Jewish Life and Culture in the United States” kicked off a 12-hour, in-person tikkun-leil Shavuot. The Shavuot custom of staying up all night to study Torah dates back hundreds of years, related to the receiving of Torah at Mount Sinai.
For Shavuot, we’ve gathered a selection of interviews with authors that provide plenty of material for self-study or group discussion.
“Count on Telling Your Story: Writing Workshops Through the Omer” showcases Ritualwell’s unique online community and the ways in which we draw upon Jewish wisdom to inspire creativity.
The 16th century kabbalists of Safed created the custom of the all-night study session during the evening prior to Shavuot. This custom, known as Tikkun
We join Jewish communities around the world in mourning the dead and honoring the countless acts of heroism large and small on the part of all those, Jewish and not, who resisted the Nazis.
Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (RRA) are deeply alarmed by yesterday’s large-scale attack launched by Iran on Israel involving a barrage of hundreds of missiles and drones.
In January 2023, the Reconstructionist Movement completed a multi-year process of passing a movement-wide resolution on reparations. To support the commitments of the resolution, the
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