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Bringing Our Whole Selves to JRC
As we move on through our journey, may we continue to reach out and reach within, to accomplish our goals of keeping traditions, making new ones, and finding Love and Peace.
Happy 60th Anniversary JRC!
JRC’s 60th Anniversary
As we move on through our journey, may we continue to reach out and reach within, to accomplish our goals of keeping traditions, making new ones, and finding Love and Peace.
Happy 60th Anniversary JRC!
Passover Seder Resources and Recommendations from JRC
The Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation’s (JRC) recommendations to make your Passover more meaningful and more relevant this year (and every year).
My Relationship to Israel-Palestine
There is an irony about giving a D’var on Bereshit, the beginning of our Torah, the majesty of creation, at the beginning of a war. But here we are at this time. Except for wars, I like the beginning of things, the promise of things to come.
Bereshit
There is an irony about giving a D’var on Bereshit, the beginning of our Torah, the majesty of creation, at the beginning of a war. But here we are at this time. Except for wars, I like the beginning of things, the promise of things to come.
JRC Statement Regarding the Current Crisis in Israel-Palestine
Preamble: The JRC Board of Directors has endorsed the following statement written by the Israel-Palestine working group. JRC is home to a broad range of opinions, beliefs, and political alignments. We worked together to find our commonalities and create a statement...
D’varim
When I read D’varim, I like to picture the crowd of people standing on the banks of the Jordan River, listening to Moses tell the story of their community. Maybe he didn’t get every detail correct – or maybe there was, as there so often is, no correct version of the story because everyone had a unique vantage point for the battles and negotiations Moses describes.
A D’var Torah for Pride Shabbat
I became a judge, in 1999, the first out lesbian on the bench in Illinois… Yet the LGBTQ community still had ways to go towards equal rights. In the first month I was on the bench, I was the first in my class… to be assigned a Saturday rotation in the Cook County Marriage Court…
Beha’alotecha, Kvetching, and Leadership
This D’var Torah on Parshat Beha’alotecha was delivered to the JRC Board of Directors during their Board Retreat on 6/15/22 by Immediate Past President Elliot Frolichstein-Appel. At this moment of transition for JRC and all of us serving on its board, this week’s...
Welcoming Refugees Is a Jewish Value. Help JRC Support Our Neighbors.
The JRC Community is sponsoring two refugee families this winter. Can you help us both meet their needs and sponsor a 3rd family? JRC member Fred Wellisch shares below how these new families are becoming a part of our community. We were standing on the corner of...