Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations

New Resources

The following resources may be relevant to your work and the work of the other leaders of your community:

• Lashon Ha-ra, #MeToo, and the Jewish Community: An Incomplete Agenda
• Who’s on Deck? Succession Planning for Nonprofits Big & Small
• The Ram Scale: Compelling Approaches to Judaism For Millennials – And All of Us
• Helping Congregants Deal with the Five Stages of Change
• Embracing our Diverse Jewish Community
• A New Jewish World, Yearning to be Born

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Social, Emotional and Spiritual Learning in Jewish Education Conference

Explore how educators can adopt a coaching approach—where skills, teamwork, and positive motivation take center stage—to integrating social, emotional, and spiritual learning (SESL), positive character growth, and Jewish learning at this conference produced by Reconstructing Judaism, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Jewish Theological Seminary and Social Emotional Learning Alliance for the United States.

Click here for more information or contact Dr. Evie Rotstein, Director of the New York School of Education, at (212) 824-2208 or erotstein@huc.edu.

Save the Date! Convention 2022
March 23–27, 2022

Please mark your calendars for the next Reconstructing Judaism convention, which will be held in partnership with the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and Havaya Summer Programs.

Convention will take place March 23-27, 2022, at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner, in McLean, Va., just outside of Washington D.C. Join us to learn, pray, sing, dance, eat and network with other Reconstructionists from all over the world. More information to follow!

Big Month for New Rabbi, New Dad

Sid Schwarz’s continuing mission

Washington Jewish Week: Community

Modern religious interpretations – a brief look at Reconstructionist Judaism

Clintonville Jewish community selects new name to reflect its mission

Montclair Rabbi, Activist Hailed As 'Human Rights Hero'

Interfaith Ramadan meal brings people together in West Oak Lane

Senior citizens pen themselves in makeshift ‘detention center’ on Independence Mall to protest deaths of migrant children in U.S. custody

Seniors protest U.S. treatment of migrant kids by 'caging' themselves in excessive heat

Rabbi Deborah Waxman to Delve into Jewish Perspective on Divine Justice for Interfaith Friday

Endorsement of House Resolution in Support of Two-State Solution
Letter in Opposition to the State Department's Commission on Unalienable Rights

Click here for our previous statements.