A rabbi confronts cancer during the High Holy Days
Type: RT Article
Reconstructionism Today
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?"
Type: RT Article
Sheri Linder's re-figuring of the Exodus from Egypt is for children, "especially for those who will begin their journeys soon."
Type: RT Article
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
A Reconstructionist Exploration of Dietary Law
Kashrut and Jewish identity
Topics: Reconstructionism Today, Religious Values
Type: RT Article
Synagogue Governance as a Sacred Trust
The conclusion of JRF's 2001 Leadership workshop series
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.
Type: RT Article
The Legacy of Ira Eisenstein
On the occasion of his fifth yahrtzeit
Type: RT Article
Boundaries and Opportunities
Non-Jews in JRF synagogues
Type: RT Article