At its annual Social Award dinner that took place Monday in Washington DC, The National Council of Jewish Women honored Edie Windsor and Roberta Kaplan, calling them ‘two giants in the field of marriage equality.’ The event was broadcast live on Periscope by A Wider Bridge Chicago. The National Council for Jewish Women presented Edie […]
The rabbinical college of the Reconstructionist stream of Judaism has revoked its “non-Jewish partner” policy, becoming the first major Jewish movement to welcome seminary students who are in committed relationships with non-Jews. “Today’s announcement is a decision by our faculty about what should or should not hold someone back from becoming a rabbi,” said Reconstructionist […]
ARZA, Association of Reform Zionists of America, secured 56 seats out of a possible 145 in the World Zionist Congress elections that took place at the beginning of June. It means that congratulations are in order to Arthur Slepian, Executive Director of A Wider Bridge, who was placed at the #20 spot in the ARZA […]
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, who was appointed head of the Reconstructionist movement and president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC), the movement’s seminary, last year, is both the first woman and the first lesbian to lead a Jewish seminary and a major Jewish movement. Rabbi Waxman, who is based in Wyncote, Pa., was in Toronto last […]
The Reconstructionist movement is on the cusp of making a historic decision about whether to drop its longstanding ban against intermarried rabbinical school students. If the policy change passes, as most expect, Reconstructionism would become the first of America’s four major Jewish religious denominations to ordain intermarried rabbis. In 1985, the movement was the first […]
David Teutsch released the 3rd Volume of A Guide to Jewish Practice, and gives a chapter from the book to download for free. The chapter was co-written by gay rabbi Joshua Lesser and lesbian rabbi Deborah Waxman. Scroll down to download A Guide to Jewish Practice: Volume 3-Life Cycle Edited by Rabbi David A. Teutsch This […]
Lesbian Rabbi Deborah Waxman, who took over in January as head of the Reconstructionist movement and president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, the movement’s seminary, will speak at Congregation Ahavas Achim in Keene (New Hampshire) this Thursday The Reconstructionist movement of Judaism is viewed as the religion’s most progressive. So it isn’t surprising […]
Lesbian Rabbi Deborah Waxman took over in January as head of the Reconstructionist movement and president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, the movement’s seminary. Rabbi Deborah Waxman leafed through her mail before unwrapping a small orange, the punch line to a fabled Jewish myth. As it went, a rabbi once teased that a […]