Community

How can we create and sustain meaning-rich communities with the power to transform lives?

Halakhah is in the doing, and our ability to pass that practice down to the next Jewish generation depends on whether or not we can give it the significance it had for the lives of our ancestors.

In a situation that was already so broken, trying to avoid breaking something by “threading the needle” doesn’t work.

Covenant is an ancient Jewish concept that puts relationships at the center.

Why do progressive communities, whose members themselves have been marginalized, then proceed to marginalize others in their new communities?

Symposium on Democracy.

My visit was spurred by the desire to join with my brothers and sisters — the Jewish people — out of concern for our homeland.

Kaplan was committed to democracy as an intrinsically good way of life.

Reconstructionist thinkers embraced democracy as both a key strategy and an ultimate truth.

Being in a community where we disagree with people works against polarization and forces us to consider ideas that make us uncomfortable.