The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF), founded in 1955, was the
synagogue arm of
Reconstructionist Judaism, serving more than 100 congregations and havurot spread across
North America. In June 2012, the Reconstructionist movement underwent a restructuring that merged JRF with the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) is a Jewish seminary in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. It is the only seminary affiliated with Reconstructionist Judaism. It is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Associa ...
to form a new national organization initially name
RRC and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities The merged organization was initially headed by Rabbi
Dan Ehrenkrantz, a 1989 graduate of the College, and currently by Rabbi
Deborah Waxman
Deborah Waxman is an American rabbi and the president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism (the merged organization of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities). Waxman was inaugurated as the president of b ...
who took over in 2014. In January 2018, the merged organization changed its name to
Reconstructing Judaism.
References
External links
new site of the Jewish Reconstructionist Movementarchived site of the Jewish Reconstructionist FederationReconstructionist Rabbinical CollegeReconstructionist PressReconstructionist Summer ProgramsEvolve: Groundbreaking Jewish ConversationsGuide to the Records of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation
at the American Jewish Historical Society
The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) was founded in 1892 with the mission to foster awareness and appreciation of American Jewish history and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation an ...
, New York, NY
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World Union for Progressive Judaism