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Chickpeas: What My Daughter Taught Me During the Year of Mourning Her

Maybe the past isn’t as dead and buried as we think.
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Black Fire on Green Kugel: My Experiment in Reconstructing Shiva

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Cremation, Resurrection and the Journey of Consciousness: Jewish Sources and Contemporary Reflections

Is cremation a permissible practice for Jews?
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I’m Religious, Not Spiritual: The Nuances of Obligation

The value of a community is how its existence serves and sanctifies within itself and beyond itself.
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What Is Mine to Do?

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Composing a New Liturgy Connected to Our Deepest Concerns

For many people, the liturgy seems disconnected from their concerns, hopes, dreams and challenges.
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Guided Meditation for a Time of Uncertainty: On the Web of Light and Love

Notice the spider web—the thin, silvery, strong and beautiful lines of light that connect you to those other Points of Light.
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The Loneliest Road: God Says, ‘I Will Be with You’

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

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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Joseph’s Bones

I have been in relationship with Joseph for years — wondering, puzzling, collecting the many hints in Torah that point to some queerness, some difference in Joseph’s gender.
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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