Online Marketing Webinar

Learn how to send a community newsletter, advertise upcoming events and solicit donations via email in our free Online Marketing webinar on July 25 at 2 p.m. EST.

Click here to sign up for the webinar.

Convention Update

Rooted and Relevant: Reconstructing Judaism in 2018

We look forward to seeing you at Convention on November 15-18 in Philadelphia. Please share the following links with your community:

• Convention registration is open! More than four hundred people have already registered to attend. Register now at Reconvention2018.org.
• To apply for financial aid, visit Bit.ly/Reconvention-Scholarship.
• To donate to the Convention Scholarship Fund, visit Bit.ly/Reconvention-Donate.

As a leader of our movement, you can help ensure a successful Convention by:

• Encouraging members of your community to register at Reconvention2018.org.
• Designating a Convention liaison from your community.
• Providing a community contact who is responsible for music. Please email Jackie Land the name and contact information for the person to whom we can direct all music resources.

For more information, visit Reconvention2018.org or contact Jackie Land at jland@reconstructingjudaism.org.

What are Reconstructionists doing?

Are the members of your community receiving the latest movement news? Is your community curious about how Reconstructionists are making a difference? Do your leaders look for new resources and nuggets of wisdom?

If so, encourage your members to subscribe to our email newsletters. Share this link with your community: http://bit.ly/ReconEmail

New Resources

Glean Network courses for faith-rooted leaders seeking transformation

Glean Network provides training and support for spiritual entrepreneurs of all faiths in partnership with the Columbia Business School. Applications for fall courses in spiritual entrepreneurship and America's changing relationship with religion are now available. 

eJewish Philanthropy provides valuable articles for Jewish organizations on topics from marketing to community engagement. The following articles may be relevant to your work and the work of the other leaders of your community:

• Lessons Learned as Synagogue Executive Director
• Appreciation Leads to Retention: 7 Creative Ways to Express Gratitude to Donors
• Reflections on Leadership and Unconscious Bias
• Relational Judaism and Synagogue Websites

Setting Down Roots On The Upper West Side (New York Jewish Week)

Gay and African-American rabbi wants to shatter stereotypes of what a Jew looks like (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

St. Louisan honored at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College graduation ceremony (St. Louis Jewish Light)

Rabbis as Entrepreneurs? It’s Not About the Money (Jeducation World)

Rabbi Meets Jews Where They Are Today (Philadelphia Jewish Exponent)

Letter from America: RFK's Finest Moment (The Jerusalem Post)

Fences, Barriers, and Walls: A Personal Rabbinic Reflection (The Jerusalem Post)

Zwischen Bima und Hörsaal (Between Bima and Lecture Hall) (Jüdische Allgemeine) [article about Rabbi Birgit Elke Klein, RRC '17, written in German]

Missed an issue of Leadership Brief or Reconstructing Judaism Today ?

Visit ReconstructingJudaism.org/newsletters to see the archive of past issues.