Mayim Rabim Congregation

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Meet Rabbi Elliott Tepperman, incoming president of Reconstructing Judaism. For over two decades he's led Bnai Keshet, Montclair, NJ, building a congregation where prayer and social justice work go hand in hand.

As we prepare to welcome him into this new role, we're looking back at this profile on the community organizing model he's built his rabbinate around.

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Wednesday, August 5, 7-8 PM, Receiving Help, Building Resilience: Lessons from Yitro, Folklab Summer Learning Series, with Rabbi Sharon Stiefel
in person and on Zoom
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Please join us in person or on zoom for Tisha b'Av, 8:30 - 10 PM. Contact the office for a Zoom link.

Reconstructing Judaism has always had a bold vision for the future. And this vision has paved the way for women to become b’nai mitzvah, openly LGBTQ+ rabbis to take the pulpit and Jews in interfaith relationships to express the full breadth of their Jewish selves.

Today, we invite you to carry this vision forward by becoming a monthly donor.

One-time gifts are wonderful and needed. But monthly donors — people who commit to being partners over time — they're the foundation that allows us to:

* Take courageous stances even when they're unpopular
* Create resources before people know they need them
* Plan for the future we’re building together

By choosing to become a monthly donor today, you’re claiming your role as a leader in the Jewish world.

Where we go, the world follows. Rabbi David Teutsch's newest essay for Evolve traces the many Reconstructionist innovations of the last 100 years. We all know about the bat mitzvah, but there are so many others, like giving women the right to initiate a divorce, and the idea that ethics outweighs halakhah. Time and time again, what looked controversial contemporaneously went on to become widely accepted by the Jewish world. Many of these "controversial" positions feel like common sense today. Teutsch argues this pattern isn't over, and that today's controversial stances will look the same way in hindsight. What stands out to you?

Link to the full essay:

https://loom.ly/VLdohl8

Jewish Community Celebrates Pride at 2026 Festival More than 100 people attended Shabbat morning services and another 40 people came for Sunday’s slightly delayed parade to celebrate Twin Cities Pride in Minneapolis this past weekend. J-Pride, a [...]

In 1984, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College did something that seemed impossible to most of the Jewish world.

We began admitting openly LGBTQ+ rabbinic students.

Our critics said we were destroying Judaism. But we were building its future.

Today, LGBTQ+ rabbis serve communities across Reform and Conservative denominations. Where the Reconstructionist movement goes, the rest of the Jewish world follows.

When you become a monthly donor to Reconstructing Judaism, you're saying: “I'm willing to support something before it's safe, before it's mainstream, because that's how the change I want to see actually happens.”

Let’s keep building the future together. Become a monthly donor today.

Happy Pride!!