(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 ...
(JTA) — The congregational arm of Reconstructionist Judaism has endorsed reparations for Black Americans, approving a resolution that calls for “ongoing learning,” “deep reflection” and “teshuvah,” or ...
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 ...
Reconstructionist Judaism, wrote the Jewish sociologist Charles Liebman almost 60 years ago, “comes closer than any other movement or school of thought to articulating the meaning of Judaism for ...
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 ...
A bomb just detonated in American Jewish life. America’s largest Reconstructionist synagogue officially cut ties this month with its national denominational body, citing its seminary’s persistent ...
Ira Eisenstein, 94, a rabbi who was founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement and was the founding president of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, died June 28 at Holy Cross Hospital after a ...
At the age of 22. Rabbi Kaplan was so miserable with the hidebound orthodoxy of his first congregation (Manhattan’s Kehilath Jeshurun) that he asked the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary to ...
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 ...