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

A poem for those at a spiritual crossroads 

Certificate affirming one’s identity as a ger toshav, fellow traveler with the Jewish people

Learn the shehekhyanu prayer in American Sign Language, along with the Debbie Friedman melody

Learn the shehekheyanu prayer in American Sign Language

Alternative mikveh ritual before a wedding

A ceremony of gratitude for the supportive presence of community and hopes for for renewed energy for one’s journey.

Modern prayer invoking the foremothers

A meditation for the mikveh invoking God’s healing presence

A kavanah for ritual immersion that focuses on the experience of mikveh as an experience of the Divine

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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