About six weeks after its internal discord over Israel spilled into public view, Judaism’s Reconstructionist movement has issued a statement reiterating its support for progressive Zionism, the ...

Rabbi Deborah Waxman, shown here speaking at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College graduation in 2024, said she is stepping down as head of the Reconstuctionist movement in order to to make way for ...

The two organizational arms of the Reconstructionist movement are set to merge. Following a year-and-a-half of negotiations, the boards of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and the Jewish ...

The largest synagogue in Judaism’s Reconstructionist movement is moving to cut ties with its denominational body over what its leaders describe as a failure to confront hostility to Israel among ...

SAJ, the Reconstructionist synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, kicks off a year-long celebration of its centennial. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — One hundred years ago this March, a girl was ...

Rabbi Deborah Waxman, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, will be speaking at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, at Congregation Ahavath Sholom, 15 North St. Waxman is believed to be the ...

The sun came out on Sunday for the 5 p.m. Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation Erev Rosh Hashanah Shofar Walk on Sept. 25 at Dawes Park in Evanston. The one mile walk included more than 300 people ...

(RNS) — On the cusp of Black History Month, and as the nation continues to mourn for Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died after a severe beating by five Black now-former police officers, ...

(RNS) — Late last year, hundreds of protesters crowded the U.S. Capitol to protest Israel’s brutal invasion of Gaza, shouting “cease-fire now,” and “not in our name.” Among them were two-dozen rabbis ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Deborah Waxman, who leads the seminary and congregational union of Judaism’s Reconstructionist movement, said this week that she will retire in the summer of 2026, opening the top job at ...

Rabbis from the liberal Jewish movement have taken leading roles in anti-Zionist activism. About six weeks after its internal discord over Israel spilled into public view, Judaism’s Reconstructionist ...