Reconstructionist Voices – Reconstructing Judaism

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Beyond Brokenness: How Service Creates Pathways to Healing and Hope

May 14, 2025

In this moving reflection, Rabbi Deborah Waxman shares her transformative experience on a service-learning trip to Israel with Yahel and Repair the World. Amid the complexities of a region in conflict, she discovers how hands-on service work—from weeding at a therapeutic farm for veterans to packing food for Bedouin villages—opens pathways to hope, agency and renewal when mere words and meetings cannot.

Virtual Shabbat Box Turns 5 Years Old

March 7, 2025

Purim is often described as a holiday of opposites, when up is down and down is up. Almost exactly five years ago, our world was turned upside down by COVID-19. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. Within days, life throughout North America shut down. At

Writing Disability Torah: Learning from the Wisdom of the Disability Community

February 6, 2025

Shortly after graduating college six years ago, Rakhel Silverman-Gitin (they/them) organized a Shabbat dinner and received a query from an interested participant. Would the dinner be wheelchair-accessible?

RRC Faculty Member Teaching in Global Day of Jewish Learning

November 7, 2024

Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi, Ph.D., will teach on “Reading Torah as Family Stories” as part of the Global Day of Jewish Learning.

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RRC Faculty Arrives in Israel for Study Tour to Enhance Rabbinic Education

July 3, 2024

Members of RRC’s faculty are taking part in a study tour as an expression of the college’s commitment to Israel education as a core component of the rabbinical school curriculum.

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I run the Reconstructionist movement. We believe in Israel’s right to exist but reject litmus tests on Zionism

May 23, 2024

Where does the Reconstructionist movement and its seminary, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, stand on Israel and Zionism? Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., powerfully makes clear the Reconstructionist approach in this piece in the Forward.

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Want to know what makes Reconstructionist rabbis unique?

March 13, 2024

For starters, check out “I’m a Reconstructionist Rabbi…..” a short video that combines offhand humor with wisdom and has drawn chuckles as well as heartfelt comments and, so far, has been played more than 18,000 times on Instagram.

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Before Google, before Wikipedia, this DIY almanac shaped a Jewish generation

July 13, 2023

This piece highlights many people who are affiliated with the Reconstructionist movement including Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, a 1991 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and rabbi emeritus of SAJ: Judaism that Stands for All; Betsy Teutsch, an artist, member of a Reconstructionist affiliate, Minyan Dorshei Derekh, and wife of former RRC President, Rabbi David Teutsch; as well as former RRC faculty members Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (z”l .)

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Baltimore Jewish Times Spotlights Jackie Land

October 20, 2022

You could say that Jackie Land has been on the ground floor of change within the Reconstructionist movement of Judaism. For one, it’s in her blood — quite literally.

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Beyond Brokenness: How Service Creates Pathways to Healing and Hope

Virtual Shabbat Box Turns 5 Years Old

Writing Disability Torah: Learning from the Wisdom of the Disability Community

RRC Faculty Member Teaching in Global Day of Jewish Learning

RRC Faculty Arrives in Israel for Study Tour to Enhance Rabbinic Education

I run the Reconstructionist movement. We believe in Israel’s right to exist but reject litmus tests on Zionism

Want to know what makes Reconstructionist rabbis unique?

Before Google, before Wikipedia, this DIY almanac shaped a Jewish generation

Baltimore Jewish Times Spotlights Jackie Land

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