Join our Community
Support ToI and remove all ads
Learn more
English
العربية
Français
فارسی
עברית
Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
The Blogs
Deborah Waxman
About Me
search
search
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate
Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
The Daily Edition
What Matters Most Today
Tech Israel
Updates from Silicon Wadi
Real Estate Israel
Weekly Update
The Weekend Edition
The Best Reads of the Week
Weekly Highlights
Choice Voices From The Blogs
Partners
Atlanta
Atlanta Jewish Times
North New Jersey
The Jewish Standard
Pittsburgh
Jewish Chronicle
United Kingdom
The Jewish News
Australia
The Australian Jewish News
For Publishers
Become a Partner
Community
Join our community
Sign in
About The Times of Israel
Advertise on The Times of Israel
Contact us
Get the Daily Edition
submit
Follow us
Facebook
Twitter
© 2024 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
Terms and conditions
Privacy policy
search
The Blogs
Deborah Waxman
Follow
NEW!
Get email alerts when this author
publishes a new article
You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your
profile page
You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your
profile page
Website
RSS
The Blogs
Home
Featured
Latest
Popular
Terms of Use
About Me
Apply for a Blog
Apr 19, 2024, 10:08 PM
As Reconstructionists, Our Litmus Test is Centering Relationships Over Politics
This Passover, our Jewish community feels more vulnerable and more divided than in recent memory. As most North American Jews—and the people who love us—gather next week to discuss the meaning of freedom and its significance in our lives,...
Jan 24, 2023, 11:28 PM
A Clarion Call against Ethnonatioanlism
Recently I joined hundreds of fellow American rabbinic colleagues in signing a letter protesting the most hardline government in Israel’s history and pledging not to invite its most extreme cabinet ministers, including Itamar Ben Gvir and Betzalel Smotrich, into...
Dec 14, 2022, 5:07 AM
The situation in Hebron is Oppressive
A lifelong knitter, I worked on a sweater as the bus wound through the Hebron Hills to the center of Hebron. The bus was carrying CEOs of organizations of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable, at the mid-point of an...
Nov 1, 2022, 8:17 PM
Ethnonationalism is a grave threat to democracy
As a rabbi, scholar of American Jewish history and communal leader, I look through these prisms and see a grave threat to democracy and am very worried. Ethnonationalism is surging around the world, fueled by economic dislocation and the pandemic...
Mar 14, 2022, 8:54 PM
Reconstructing Gatherings for a Hybrid World
From March 22-27, hundreds of Reconstructionists will gather in person in suburban Washington DC, and online for “B’Yachad: Reconstructing Judaism Together” a multiaccess, movement-wide convention. We come together with the clear sense that the world is changing and that...
Dec 13, 2019, 7:29 PM
Fiddler on the Roof and Trump’s Executive Order
When I first read about President Donald Trump’s Executive Order that would effectively, if not explicitly, define the Jewish people as a nationality, I thought of someone, a fictional person actually, who harkens back to a very different time...
Feb 26, 2019, 6:41 AM
Reconstructing Pluralism through Conversation
Pluralism is dead. Long live pluralism. American Jews helped to bring to life the 2oth century concept of pluralism, a key facet of civil society that is becoming increasingly endangered. Through intentional engagement with Judaism, North American Jews have the...
Feb 2, 2018, 3:06 PM
Featured Post
Why the Reconstructionist movement is rebranding
Doing Jewish may mean attending synagogue, learning Hebrew, immersing in social action, or making ecologically-kosher meals
May 28, 2017, 6:58 AM
March on Harrisburg
Why are we on this planet? What are we supposed to do while we are here? How are we supposed to do whatever it is we are supposed to do? These are the big questions. Some of us spend much of...
Jan 31, 2017, 11:52 PM
Featured Post
Light through the cracks
Taking comfort in Jewish resilience, human empathy, and community, as her beloved liberal landscape shifts underfoot
Load more
About Me
Website
Rss
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., is president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism.
close popup
Sign in or Register
Email address
*
Please use the following structure: example@domain.com
Continue
Or Continue with
By registering you agree to the
terms and conditions
Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition
back
close popup
Register to continue
Email address
*
Change
REGISTER
Or Continue with
back
close popup
Log in to continue
Email address
*
Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..
Continue
back
close popup
Sign in or Register
Email address
*
Password
*
Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.
Continue
I forgot my password
/
Send me a sign in link
Or Continue with
close popup
Check your email
We sent an email to you at
.
It has a link that will sign you in.
Click the link in that email to complete registration so you can comment.