How Jews Move Their Hands
April 20, 2023
This lively teaching chironomy, talmudic gestures, shtetl dance, and hassidic prayer as well as Jewish teachings about the human hand.
This lively teaching chironomy, talmudic gestures, shtetl dance, and hassidic prayer as well as Jewish teachings about the human hand.
Reconstructing Judaism and The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association joins together with the Union for Reform Judaism, Keshet and 92 other Jewish organizations to oppose H.R. 734. Read the full letter here.
Reconstructing Judaism has joined #StandUpToJewishHate, a new national campaign designed to raise awareness of antisemitism and hate targeting. The campaign also aims to empower all people, especially non-Jews, to stand up against it when it impacts their communities.
“As a Jew and an African American, I carry the memory of two groups of people who were once enslaved,” said Rabbi Sandra Lawson, RRC’ 18, Reconstructing Judaism’s inaugural director of racial diversity, Justice and inclusion.
As Passover approaches, I’ve been thinking about the reasons why I’m a religious Jew, sparked significantly by a recent Reconstructionist pilgrimage to civil rights sites in the south. I’m wrestling with how to incorporate this powerful, painful and staggering experience into our celebration of freedom, in a way that respects the experiences of Black people—and Black Jews.
Reconstructing Judaism & The RRA have signed on to the LGBTQI+ rights CSO letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
This d’var Torah originally appeared on Rabbi Maurice Harris’ Substack newsletter. Read more here. This decades-old Israeli postage stamp commemorates Passover. On the first day
Reconstructing Judaism joins nearly 225 national organizations and farm bill stakeholders on this important SNAP Statement of Support.
Mark Pinsky prepared this d’var Torah for the Reconstructing Judaism Board’s Executive Committee Meeting, March 9, 2023. The Reflection Space at the Legacy Museum is
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
