Reconstructionism Today

Featured: Yom Ha'herut: Celebrating Our American Redemption

Rabbi Seth Goldstein proposes a new holiday to celebrate Judaism's "American redemption." A celebration for all American-Jews, such a holiday would be especially significant for the Reconstructionist movement. After all, "what is Reconstructionism but Judaism of the Jewish people, by the Jewish people and for the Jewish people?"

Topics: Jewish Life, Reconstructionism Today, Jewish Community

Type: RT Article

Featured: On Eagle's Wings—A Rabbi Confronts her Cancer Diagnosis During the High Holidays

A rabbi confronts cancer during the High Holy Days

Topics: Reconstructionism Today, Holidays, Holy Days and Rituals

Type: RT Article

Featured: Exodus in Our Time

Sheri Linder's re-figuring of the Exodus from Egypt is for children, "especially for those who will begin their journeys soon."

Topics: Reconstructionism Today, Holy Days and Rituals, Pesach

Type: RT Article

Featured: An Adult Bat Mitzvah Journey

Growing up in another generation did not always afford women the passage of becoming a bat mitzvah. In her article, Sandra Rubenstein recounts her journey to become a bat mitzvah at Kehillat Israel in Pacific Palisades, CA.

Topics: Reconstructionism Today, Bat/Bar Mitzvah

Type: RT Article

Synagogue Governance as a Sacred Trust

The conclusion of JRF's 2001 Leadership workshop series

Topics: Reconstructionism Today, Congregational and Organizational Life

Type: RT Article

Rating the "High Holidays"

"I'd give it a 7... It had a good beat, and you could davven to it"

Topics: Jewish Life, Reconstructionism Today, Holidays, Congregational and Organizational Life, Holy Days and Rituals

Type: RT Article

Values-Based Convention Planning

Devorah Servi gives us the inside look of how the 2004 JRF Convention in Portland came together from cross-continental discussion and decentralization.

Topics: Reconstructionism Today, Congregational and Organizational Life, Religious Values

Type: RT Article