Operating Principles for Reconstructionist Synagogues

January 22, 2018
Rabbi Sid Schwarz

A classic article suggesting important qualities of a synagogue that define it as “Reconstructionist”

(Originally published in Reconstructionism Today, January-February 1988_

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