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‘Mipnei Darkhei Shalom’: Resisting Together While in Disagreement

  • May 11, 2025
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Resisting tyranny together does not mean that we agree about everything.
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Collective Liberation Is Our Work: Diversity in the Jewish Community

  • April 7, 2025
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Many of us are living in fear that our loved ones will be targeted by racism or genderism or sexism or ableism.
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Jewish Teaching About Fat Liberation: You Can’t Photoshop Fat People Out of the Image of God

  • March 17, 2025
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How can we unlearn the harmful teachings society places upon us and move toward liberation for fat people — and therefore, for all people?
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From the School Yard to the Talmud: Trans People Exist and Are Not Going Away

  • March 17, 2025
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The Mishnah mandates that people beyond the gender binary must be protected from all forms of harm. This so much more comprehensive than anything we have today to shield us from attacks.
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Silhouettes of two people with open arms, flanked by rifles, and text Combatants for Peace.

Searching For Signs of Peace After October 7th: Combatants for Peace

  • March 17, 2025
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Can joint peace groups like the Combatants for Peace make a difference, particularly in these very dark times?
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Praying in the Language of Welcoming: Refugee and Immigration Advocacy

  • February 10, 2025
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There is work to do, lives are at stake and our ancestors are depending on us to carry forward the legacy of accountability to this sacred obligation.
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The Loneliest Road: God Says, ‘I Will Be with You’

  • February 10, 2025
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We have a hard road ahead, but not a lonely one. We have each other. And we have the Divine at our side, at our back, and within us.
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Defending Trans Communities: Why American Jews Should Mobilize Against the Christian Right Agenda

  • January 8, 2025
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Informed, Honest, Realistic, Steady: Preparing to Advocate for Our Values Over the Next Four Years  

  • January 7, 2025
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It is important to find a sustainable sense of balance and long-term hope throughout a period of challenge, loss, disappointment and fear.
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How Do We Create Communities That Do Not Marginalize? Jacob’s Unsettling, and Our Own

  • December 9, 2024
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Why do progressive communities, whose members themselves have been marginalized, then proceed to marginalize others in their new communities?
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The Reconstructionist Network

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Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

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Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

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Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

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Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

Read & Rite

One-stop shop for progressive Jewish books and ritual objects

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Professional association of Reconstructionist rabbis

Placement Office

Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

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The Reconstructionist Network

A blank white square with no visible content.
A pure white, blank image with no distinguishable features or content.
A blank white square image.

Read & Rite

One-stop shop for progressive Jewish books and ritual objects

Placement Office

Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Professional association of Reconstructionist rabbis