September 5, 2025 — This course will run for 12 sessions beginning early June 2024 (weekly meeting time to be determined with input from registered students). All course sessions will take place in real-time on the Zoom platform. This online course covers the basic verb forms, syntax and vocabulary of Biblical Hebrew.

June 10, 2022 — The part of me that craved answers, structure and safety struggled with the part that wanted freedom, mystery and adventure.

April 28, 2025 — A lifelong Reconstructionist, Asher Chaim Sofman sees his oncoming rabbinical career as an opportunity to foster belonging through the whole-hearted sharing of beliefs, wisdom and practice across multiple civilizations. He was one of the pioneer campers at Camp Havaya — then Camp JRF — in 2002 and hopes to re-experience the transformative welcome of summer camp in the communities he serves. Before enrolling at RRC, he studied creative writing and world literature at Brown University, earning a B.A. with honors in Literary Arts. In a reversal of traditional Jewish American migration patterns, he left his sunny South Floridian birthplace (unceded Seminole territory) to put down roots in his ancestral homeland, New Jersey (unceded land of the Lenni-Lenape).

January 14, 2025 — We need to reimagine globally how we live without using fossil fuel and make significant changes in a very short span of time.

June 10, 2022 — Why becoming Jewish is attractive.

May 24, 2023 — A ritual for a girl's first period. Includes a circle of names, blessings, candle-lighting, and gift-giving. Ritual objects include a tambourine, red ribbons, a decorative egg, a ring, candles, and red fruits.

November 30, 2023 — We simply sit with and name our grief, sadness and feelings of overwhelm. We lift up the power of this community to offer space for healing and affirmation.

November 12, 2024 — Rabbi Levi’s Abraham passes the test because he remains sufficiently calm and clear-thinking to avert a misinterpretation that would have ended Isaac’s life.

June 10, 2022 — Rabbi Marc Margolius affirms three core teachings in the Torah: that each human being is created in the image of the Divine, that human beings must "serve and guard" the earth and that together, we must pursue justice and peace.