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A History of Reconstructionist Zionism


Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: Home

The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College created a new fellowship in race, culture and Jewish ethics as part of its ongoing efforts to cultivate dynamic ...

Following internal drama over Israel, Reconstructionist Judaism ...

The group says it is guided by the teachings of Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, who was a Zionist. Rabbi Noah ...

Zionism as Judaism - The Israel Forever Foundation

Humanist Judaism regards the concept of God as unnecessary, while Reconstructionist Judaism treats it as a metaphor for something or other. Conservative Judaism ...

Kaplan, Zionism, and Us

Kaplan and his circle differentiated between a Zionism that would function as an international movement binding together Jews wherever they lived, and the ...

Who Am I? - Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore

I am a Zionist, but I am not an Israeli. As I said on Rosh HaShana, I have been a Jewish nationalist from birth. The State of Israel has been a reality for all ...

What Is Reform Zionism?

Reform Zionism is a continuation of the early Zionist dream to foster a living, breathing national culture that represents the highest ideals of Jewish ...

The origins of Zionism and the Balfour Declaration - Counterfire

Zionism is a political philosophy of Jewish nationalism. It combines partly religious and partly historical ideas that claim the world's Jewish population has ...

Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation: Home - JRC

Core to Reconstructionism is the belief that Judaism is the evolving religious civilization of the Jewish people; such a civilization contains ritual, music, ...

History of the Association of Reform Zionists of America - ARZA

The history of Zionism and Reform Judaism is one of ambiguity and nuance ... Reconstructionist Jews with Progressive communities throughout the world.

Anti-Zionism forced us to withdraw from Reconstructionist ...

Kaplan was devoted to establishing the state of Israel as a primary hub of creative and meaningful renaissance for the Jewish civilization, in ...

Converts to Zionism in the American Reform Movement

Leading Zionists, after all, doubted that a true Zionist could be a believing. Reform Jew, just as leading Reform Jews doubted wherher a believing Re- form Jew ...

These three anti-Zionists were just ordained as rabbis

Before 1948, unconditional support for Israel and for Zionism was not always a given in American Jewish society. But over the past few decades, ...

Zionism | The Center for Jewish History ArchivesSpace

... the history of Jews in Russia and ... As a disciple of Mordecai Kaplan, he and others helped to establish the Reconstructionist movement of American Jewry.

Legacies of Dissent: American Jews, Zionism, and Palestine - Event

Logo for Or Haneshamah - Ottawa's Reconstructionist Community ... history of debates over Zionism and Israel within the American Jewish community.

ZIONISM - JewishEncyclopedia.com

The idea of a return of the Jews to Palestine has its roots in many passages of Holy Writ. It is an integral part of the doctrine that deals with the Messianic ...

The URJ and Israel | Union for Reform Judaism

The Just Zionism Initiative is a new URJ Israel initiative to build a community of activists around Israel as a Jewish and democratic state emphasizing that ...

Jewish denominations grapple with calls to ban anti-Zionists from ...

In fact, the graduation program book reveals that a fair number of these newly ordained Reconstructionist rabbis – more than a quarter, in fact ...

The RRC has crossed a line - JNS.org

(Though I confess the Reconstructionist anti-Zionists do score a point for creativity when they claim that believing Israel has a right to exist ...

Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan Writes Article Leading to Reconstructionist ...

He also emphasizes that Zionism is a key component in his “reconstruction” of American Judaism, arguing that “the fate of Judaism is bound up ...

Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore

RSNS and Israel ... We are a Progressive Zionist congregation, which supports Israel as a safe, democratic home for all Jews, as we yearn for justice for all its ...