Megan Doherty

Rabbi Megan Doherty most recently served as the senior educator in community engagement at HIAS. Previously, she spent more than 10 years as a campus rabbi at Oberlin College and Yale University. She has completed fellowships with Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership, the Shalom Hartman Institute and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She is a certified Jewish mindfulness meditation instructor and a certified mediator in the state of Ohio. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Oberlin Public Library, and has served on the board and the executive committee of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College, and rabbinical ordination from RRC.

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‘Covenantal Community’ and Classical Reconstructionism

April 4, 2025

Rabbi Deborah Waxman published this essay “‘Covenantal Community’ and Classical Reconstructionism” in December 2024. What follows is this essay, with commentaries exploring Waxman’s points by four other Reconstructionist rabbis: Megan Doherty, Isabel de Koninck, Katie Mizrahi and Elyse Wechterman.

Megan Doherty

Essays

‘Covenantal Community’ and Classical Reconstructionism

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