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The Hard Holy Days

Is there another way to look at life and death, that isn’t through a lens of fear and trembling?

Reconstructing a Chosenness Without Superiority: A Covenantal Ethic for Jewish Peoplehood

Chosenness, rightly understood, should make Jews more committed to the dignity and flourishing of non-Jews, not less.

Whitewashing Biblical Characters

Biblical characters have been whitewashed in cultural and religious arts, theology and popular imagination. Whiteness has been spackled onto biblical texts and characters.

Sustaining Democracy Amid Cultural Pluralism: Mordecai Kaplan’s Vision

Kaplan was committed to democracy as an intrinsically good way of life.

Eco-Judaism (Is There Any Other Kind?!):  How Torah Pushes the Sustainability Envelope

“Love of the Creator, and love of that which G!d has created, are finally one and the same,” wrote Martin Buber.  Defending this divine creation in an era of climate change is a Jewish (and social, political, and moral) imperative.

Jewish Wisdom on Reparations and ‘Teshuvah’

The process of reparations requires a transformation of the soul of America.

Theologies for Shavuot

The Reconstructionist Network

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

The Reconstructionist Network