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Greetings!

One of our brayrot (electives) on Tuesday is the Reconstructionism & the JRC News Team with Morah Aviva. Students in this brayrah have been learning about Reconstructionist Judaism by building the curriculum around their questions and then creating articles or comics distributed as the "JRC Reconstructionist News." The students from round one are excited to share their work with you!
What Is Happening at JRC & RS This Year
By Landon Scott

This year earth has been hit hard by a new virus: COVID-19. Schools are going virtual, workers are doing work from home and people are going crazy! Well as I just said schools are doing virtual and JRC is no different. We are changing and adapting to this together and there has been a lot of changes in how we learn...
What is Shabbat for Reconstructionists?
By Ruby Stillwell

Shabbat is something that happens every week beginning on Friday night and ends Saturday night. As Reconstructionists, we all know about it but we all celebrate it in different ways. While Jews of the past followed the rules of Shabbat very seriously, we as Reconstructionists make it our own...
Comic Strip: Orthodoxy and Reconstructionism
By Clara Swartzendruber
Comic Strip: What Power Rabbis Have?
By Ari Adams
Comic Strip: Reconstructionism and Bat Mitzvah
By Zizi Jolles
This is what might have happened to me if I lived 105 years ago! Fortunately for me and other girls a lot has changed in that time thanks to Reconstructionism because we invented the Bat Mitzvah! Fun fact: Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionism's daughter Judith was the first person to have a Bat Mitzvah.
By Melanie Frolichstein:

It feels very weird having Hebrew School on zoom, especially because this is my first year attending on Tuesdays. I've never experienced the in person class! Even though class is on zoom, I still enjoy it and one day we will FINALLY be able to have class in person!!
Profiles in History: Hank Greenberg
By Ethan Schulkin

Reconstructionism teaches that Judaism is a Civilization, which means we can learn as much from history and Jewish people's individual stories as we can from the Torah and the Rabbis.

Ethan Schulkin takes a look at the most famous of Jewish Baseball players - Hank Greenberg
Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation