When you trace your ancestors, you learn more about yourself, you learn more about history, and you are able to place your ...

Every day, young Anne Frank and her sister Margot walked 2.5 kilometres to school, as Nazi anti-Jewish laws barred them from ...

The move by Adath Jeshurun’s leadership marks a deliberate departure from the stricter standards long upheld by the ...

Why Reconstructionist Judaism head Rabbi Deborah Waxman is stepping down after 13 years After leading the progressive denomination for ‘almost a generation’ as it grappled with issues like ...

Reconstructionist Judaism emerged out of the teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983), a Conservative rabbi who conceived Judaism as an evolving “civilization” rather than just a religion.

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 ...

Fast Forward Reconstructionist leader to step down as head of movement riven by tension over anti-Zionism Rabbi Deborah Waxman, CEO of Reconstructing Judaism, said she is leaving to make way for ...

Rabbis married to non-Jews exist within Humanist, Reform, Jewish Renewal and Reconstructionist Jewish movements, although not within Conservative and Orthodox streams.

Reconstructionist Judaism affirms support for progressive Zionism amid recent divides Movement says it backs Jewish state’s right to exist, Palestinian statehood and ending ‘military ...

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 ...

Why Reconstructionist Judaism, and its rabbinical college, believes in Israel's write to exist, but not in litmus tests regarding Zionism.

Though numerically small, the Reconstructionist Movement was perceived as the think tank, the brain trust, the workshop that fueled the creative ideas, best practices, and organic purposes of ...