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 ...
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After an exhaustive search that included input from the entire congregation, Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue in Wheeling has selected Rabbi Schachar Orenstein as its new rabbi. Orenstein, who ...
Rabbi Aviva Marchione of Congregation Beth Israel of Media is new to her job, but she loves it. At the synagogue in Delaware County, she has found a like-minded community that appreciates a fluid view ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...