Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

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The Winter 2008 issue of JRF's magazine, Reconstructionism Today (RT) - "a voice for creative Jewish living" - was mailed to members of JRF congregations. Read more to see what's inside.

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The Summer 2007 issue of JRF's magazine, Reconstructionism Today (RT) - "a voice for creative Jewish living" - is now online. This issue will not be mailed as we experiment with a new way of publishing that we hope will have many benefits.

Reconstructionism Today's latest issue (Winter, 2007) is now available online and is attached to this post. Detailed coverage of the JRF convention held in November is included. The full texts of talks given by Rabbis Richard Hirsh, Toba Spitzer, Michael Strassfeld and Lester Bronstein are printed in the volume.

Other articles of note include Reconsidering Reconstructionist Liturgy by Dan Cedarbaum and Art Goes to Shul by RT editor Lisa Tuttle.

The Fall edition of Reconstructionism Today has just been published. The pdf version is available for download. This issue transitions JRF Director of Communications Lisa Tuttle into the role of editor for Reconstructionism Today marking an end to a wonderful legacy of RT's founding editor Larry Bush.

The lead article describes the recent conference on mikvah in Judaism that was held in Bostron where there is a new liberal mikvah.

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