Essays for the High Holidays
October 8, 2024
Rabbi Nadya Gross and Reb Simcha Paull Raphael, Phd: In Preparation for Yizkor Rabbi Jess Belasco: Re-Envisioning Tashlikh Chloe Zelkha: Nothing So Whole as a Broken
Rabbi Nadya Gross and Reb Simcha Paull Raphael, Phd: In Preparation for Yizkor Rabbi Jess Belasco: Re-Envisioning Tashlikh Chloe Zelkha: Nothing So Whole as a Broken
3. Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to
Engage in groundbreaking Jewish Conversations. Review multiple perspectives from Rabbis Haviva Ner-David, Yohanna Kinberg, Jason Bonder, Seth Goldstein, Nathan Kamesar, Arthur Waskow, Robert Tabak, Amy Eilberg, Micah Weiss, Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Laurie Zimmerman, David Teutsch, and Dr. Ilan Peleg and Oren Jay Sofer. Explore what’s possible.
A Reconstructionist symposium on the notion of ‘chosenness.’
“Homosexuality & Judaism: The Reconstructionist Position” (The 1992 Report of the Reconstructionist Commission on Homosexuality) is available to read here.
Evolve continues to publish essays discussing the practice of brit milah (ritual circumcision. They are gathered here.
Bruchim is a startup nonprofit that advocates for Jewish families opting out of circumcision and others who object to the practice. Bruchim holds that forgoing
Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement
Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis
Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues
Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives
