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Handling Subjectivity With More Care: There Is Right and Wrong

The integrity of any community depends on honesty in business and all interpersonal transactions, teaches the book of Deuteronomy. Fraudulence is an abomination.

Holding the Pain and the Love

Our love of Israel can help us to look squarely at the hard truths of Israel’s history and the darkness of today’s realities.

Voice, Water, Place: New/Old Ways of Understanding God

We are heir to a rich assortment of metaphors for God that may resonate more powerfully than the High Holy Day images of king and judge.

Reeling from my journey into America's ugly past

Reflections on a visit to the National Memorial of Peace and Justice and to the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Ala.

This Year I Skipped Purim

How do we balance raucous joy with global suffering? Is it sometimes impossible to celebrate, even when the Jewish calendar calls for it? Rabbi Amy Eilberg shares about her skipping Purim in 2019 in response to attacks in Pittsburgh and Christchurch.

Patriotism, Religion and Culture

"I am a Jew, an American and a humanist -- in no specific order."

Supporting Integrity: Pastoral Care for Conversion and Transition

Our responsibility is to assert as legitimate the religious identity of those converting to Judaism and those who transition to a different gender identity. We can learn from our support of each of these groups about how to support the other.

Reply to Brant Rosen

Adding onto Rabbi Brant Rosen's response essay, Rabbi Toba Spitzer further defines her use of "narrative" in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the struggle for liberation from trauma and oppression.

The Reconstructionist Network

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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