Community

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.

In Can We ‘Hold Each Other’ Online? Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer explores the community created through Ritualwell's 15-minute minyan 'Holding Each Other.' She shares about the power of a pause in the day for prayer and the opportunity to honor, recognize and see each other, even if community members never meet off line.

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.