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Shoshana Hantman

Mar 16, 2025, 3:47 PM

We Zionist Reconstructionist Jews have lost our guiding light

Demonstrators protest against the military policies of Israel ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress, in the Cannon House Office Building at the Capitol in Washington, July 23, 2024. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Our rabbinical college claimed the mantle of big tent Judaism until most of its student body was prepared to dismantle half the tent

About Me

Rabbi Shoshana Hantman holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University, and graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1989. She has spent most of her career in Jewish education, and presently serves on the Board of Beit Kaplan: The Rabbinic Partnership for Jewish Education, which upholds Reconstructionist philosophy and values. She lives in suburban New York with her husband and children.