Jewish Practice

Featured: Making Seder and Kiddush More Inclusive

Rabbi Richard Hirsh discusses the importance of providing grape juice in addition to wine at congregational and ritual gatherings.

Topics: Jewish Practice, Community Building, Congregational and Organizational Life, Family Issues, Holy Days and Rituals, Religious Values, Pesach, Building Community, Inclusive Communities

Type: Policy

Featured: Perhaps You Belong in a Reconstructionist Community

An overview of Reconstructionist philosophy and community life, plus testimonials from members of Reconstructionist congregations.

Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Life, Jewish Practice, Jewish Thought, Reconstructionist Judaism

Type: Article

Featured: FAQs on Reconstructionist Approaches to Jewish Ideas and Practices

This list offers Reconstructionist approaches to Jewish ideas and practices. Note: These were developed in the years before the restructuring of the Reconstructionist movement in June 2012.

Topics: Education, Teaching Reconstructionism, Jewish Practice, Jewish Thought, Reconstructionist Judaism

Type: FAQ

Featured: Passover: The Seder

This audio program offers an overview of the structure, development and religious meanings of the haggadah and the Passover seder with Rabbis Joy Levitt and Richard Hirsh. It includes a special behind-the-scenes look at the Reconstructionist haggadah, A Night of Questions, and its accompanying music CD. This is an episode of Heart, Mind and Spirit.

Topics: Education, Holiday Resources, Art and Music, Jewish Practice, Pesach

Type: Audio Interview

Resting in the Breath

Rabbi Jacob Staub explores the practice of mindfulness meditation.

Topics: Jewish Practice, Spirituality

Type: Essay

Asking for Help

Rabbi Jacob Staub confronts the personal difficulties he encountered when his belief in his own autonomy clashed with the realization that he needed help.

Topics: Teaching God, Jewish Practice, Spirituality, Religious Values

Type: Essay

Wrestling With Rest

A community process to resolve questions about observance of Shabbat

Topics: Congregational Development, Jewish Practice, Community Building, Congregational and Organizational Life, Holy Days and Rituals

Type: Profile

How to Light the Hanukkah Menora and Sing the Blessings

Listen and watch Rabbi Jeff Eisenstat as he demonstrates lighting the Hanukkah menorah. He's also thrown in "O' Hanukkah, O' Hanukkah" whose famous English words were written by Mordecai Kaplan's daughter, Judith Eisenstein.

Topics: Jewish Life, Art and Music, Jewish Practice, Holidays, Hanukkah

Type: How to

Challenging Distinctions: The Purim Enigma

A article exploring the deeper meaning of the seemingly frivolous holiday of Purim. Why is Yom Kippur sometimes compared to Purim? What's behind the Talmudic suggestion of drinking to the point of being unable to distinguish between Haman and Mordechai?

Topics: Jewish Life, Divrei Torah, Jewish Practice, Holidays, Purim

Type: Dvar Torah

Hassal Siddur Pesach

Melody for the penultimate prayer in the Passover Haggadah, Hebrew text, transliteration, translation, and mp3 are provided.

Topics: Jewish Life, Art and Music, Jewish Practice, Holidays, Pesach, Harmoniyah Music Collection

Type: Music

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