Choosing & Affirming a Jewish Life

Our world offers a dizzying array of options for constructing identity and making meaning. In this context, all Jews are Jews by choice. Whether choosing Judaism for the first time, or returning or affirming this path for yourself, the choice to live a Jewish life calls for ritual and communal celebration.

Latest Rituals

“We praise you, Shekhinah, / who has given us life”
“We all have a name / given by the mountains we climb”

“I close my eyes like a newborn as I immerse”

“May I feel belonging and chosenness in all spaces.”

Blessing for an online mikveh immersion

A virtual conversion ritual with handwashing to evoke the mikveh

“The Divine breath / Enters the human shape”

“The fish are passing through sunlight and shadow”

The Reconstructionist Network

Serving as central organization of the Reconstructionist movement

Training the next generation of groundbreaking rabbis

Modeling respectful conversations on pressing Jewish issues

Curating original, Jewish rituals, and convening Jewish creatives

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