Longtime Reconstructionist Rabbi to Lead Movement Organization into Its Next Chapter [Wyncote, PA] — Reconstructing Judaism, the central organization of the Reconstructionist Jewish movement, today announced the selection of Rabbi Elliott Tepperman as its next President and Chief Executive Officer. Rabbi Tepperman brings to the role a distinguished record of
Join us this Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 2:30 PM ET as we celebrate the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s Fifty-Fourth Graduation Ceremony via livestream. This year’s graduating class — Josie Boskoff, Alana Krivo-Kaufman, Noah Dor Lind, Léah Miller, and Maria Pulzetti — will be ordained alongside the presentation of honorary degrees
Editor’s note: Marc Overbeck has been a member of Reconstructing Judaism’s Board of Governors since October 2020 and twice served as president of Temple Beth Sholom in Salem, Oregon. In this piece, recently published on The Blogs at the Times of Israel, Marc writes as a Diaspora Jew wrestling honestly
Dear friends,  We are entering Passover at a fragile time, when fragmentation feels close to the surface.  Public discourse is ever more brittle. Democratic norms are strained. Antisemitism has become more visible and more volatile. Within the Jewish community, divisions grow increasingly wider about what matters to prioritize. Passover does not ignore fragmentation. It reframes it.  The Exodus story is not preserved so we can rehearse our  victimhood. It is preserved
Reconstructing Judaism President and CEO Rabbi Deborah Waxman is among more than 1,100 Jewish clergy from 45 states who have signed a statement affirming their support and solidarity with immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in the United States. The statement, released by HIAS on March 11, 2026, is also accompanied
This is so hard. Everything changes and changes again and then changes again. The world we knew when we entered Shabbat on Friday was gone when we woke up the next day. Suddenly, America is at war and Israel is at war again and millions of people across the Middle East are under attack and seeking shelter, even where no shelters exist. While we have hopes and prayers and ideas and recommendations, we do not know how this will end, and many Americans are devastated at how it started—before every diplomatic avenue was exhaustively pursued and without adequate consultation with or oversight from Congress, in direct violation of the US Constitution.
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism, will be a featured speaker at J Street’s 2026 Convention in Washington, D.C. The four-day event runs February 28 through March 3 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, bringing together Jewish leaders, elected officials, and policy experts for programming
Adding our voices to millions of others across the United States, leaders of the Reform, Conservative/Masorti, and Reconstructionist Movements of Judaism condemn, in the strongest terms, the violence with which the Department of Homeland Security is enforcing American immigration law—above all, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as in cities and towns across the nation.
Those of us living in North America woke up yesterday morning to devastating news of a horrific and deadly antisemitic attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, occurring amidst increasing antisemitism in Australia, North America and around the world. We reel as well from reports of yet another deadly shooting spree
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