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RECONSTRUCTIONIST RABBINICAL COLLEGE and JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST COMMUNITIES RECONSTRUCTIONIST RABBINICAL COLLEGE and JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST COMMUNITIES 2015 ANNUAL REPORT Watch the video at www.RRC.edu/AR15 RECONSTRUCTIONIST HOME | RABBINICAL EDUCATION | OUR GRADUATES | COMMUNITY | YOU MAKE A | CAMP JRF | FINANCIALS | TAKE ACTION RABBINICAL COLLEGE & BEYOND ENGAGEMENT DIFFERENCE and JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST COMMUNITIES This is the script of a video WHO, you ask, is the WE that you can watch at holding a hand out to www.RRC.edu/AR15 you right now? Is this you? ME. I am a student at RRC because the How about this? College believes in my unique vision for Or this? . Jewish engagement and leadership, and supports If so, let’s join together . me with extensive training in sacred texts, We believe that all of us are a flexible curriculum, responsible for Judaism, and for reconstructing it in each generation, to create the Judaism innovative ritual practices, mentoring in social activism and multifaith conversation, and we want to live today…and tomorrow. entrepreneurial training. When I took my first internship, I felt ready to help … We know that people take many different paths towards meaningful Jewish living, and we ME. I’m a newly elected congregation president with big dreams for our community. must nurture each individual journey. I devote countless hours to finding and engaging people like you. People who can bring open hearts and minds to create something larger than each of us individually—a We embrace and celebrate the diversity of Jews, and see our role as nourishing each other’s community of fellow travelers who learn together, celebrate together and weather hard spirits through mutual support. times together. It’s inspiring for everyone, even … We believe that modern ME. At Camp JRF, I spent Jewish communities last summer living in flourish when we steep the incredible new Eco- ourselves in the wisdom Village, flying across the of our traditions and 30-foot-high zip line, open ourselves to the playing ga-ga with my wisdom of the friends, and learning wider world. how being Jewish is cool. And Together –– WE can sustain and expand ME. When I visited my meaningful Jewish life, children at Camp, I was now and in the future. amazed at the sense of 2 RECONSTRUCTIONIST HOME | RABBINICAL EDUCATION | OUR GRADUATES | COMMUNITY | YOU MAKE A | CAMP JRF | FINANCIALS | TAKE ACTION RABBINICAL COLLEGE & BEYOND ENGAGEMENT DIFFERENCE and JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST COMMUNITIES community they build and proud we partner with … at how much the kids had grown in just a few weeks. ME. As a Christian seminary Camp JRF is where my professor, I value working children get to be their best closely with RRC faculty, co- selves. And it’s where they teaching courses that explore build their own connection our differences, build on our to our progressive Jewish commonalities, and empower values every day. We’re so our students to fight anti- grateful to have found a Semitic and anti-Islamic place that infuses Jewishness sentiment. These real-world into all the dynamic activities partnerships can halt the fear kids want, inspired by staff and hatred that challenge our who are trained by… democracy. Social activists of all faiths regularly pursue peace with partners like… ME. I teach Jewish texts, customs and sacred rituals at RRC because I believe they have the power to help us make meaning and build community. I teach students to challenge, ME. I graduated from RRC 20 years ago and wherever I go, God-wrestlers and rethink and reinvigorate these important cultural gifts. And I know I’ve done my job groundbreakers like you have helped me breathe new life into our tradition. Through a when our emerging leaders not only have the knowledge they need, but the creativity to Reconstructionist approach to Judaism, we are able to use our voices and actions to right retell and renew our shared Jewish wrongs, help those in need, and lead our people through tumultuous times. And to amplify traditions. To maintain this scholarly our efforts, we look to leaders like… and warm, caring community, we rely on supporters like… ME. As president of the Reconstructionist ME. My experience of Rabbinical College and Reconstructionist Judaism is Jewish Reconstructionist transformative. I continually find Communities, I am ways to deepen my involvement. As a committed to the values and donor, I know that my gift energizes aspirations that connect us a growing movement made up of all and that frame our Jewish rabbinical students and professors, future. I want to encourage families and communities, leaders your participation. Working and change-makers––all united by together, an individual ME common values and a shared vision of can become a surprisingly our unlimited Jewish potential. And I’m powerful WE. Join us! 3 RECONSTRUCTIONIST HOME | RABBINICAL EDUCATION | OUR GRADUATES | COMMUNITY | YOU MAKE A | CAMP JRF | FINANCIALS | TAKE ACTION RABBINICAL COLLEGE & BEYOND ENGAGEMENT DIFFERENCE and JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST COMMUNITIES RRC’s Curriculum Our rabbinical program stresses hands-on, reflective learning across all instructional areas. It cultivates knowledge, skills and RABBINICAL character with passion for Jewish tradition, the Jewish people and social and environmental justice. EDUCATION & BEYOND This year RRC has rolled out a new, reimagined curriculum in which every experience integrates the three aspects of rabbinical learning and development shown below. Choose an area to learn more. • Small-group reflection encourages personal growth: for example, “How do I bring my fullest self into my rabbinate? What is my Shabbat practice, and how is it evolving?” • Close, mentoring relationships and great access to faculty support each student • Warm, caring community embraces students and their families • Environment fosters individualized spiritual and Jewish growth • Community davens, meditates and celebrates together • Pursue individual passions on a solid foundation of knowledge and skills • Experience deep immersion in Jewish text • Integrate traditional texts with cutting-edge theory • Engage in independent study • Enjoy opportunities to study at other learning institutions • Robust internship program offered • Hands-on learning emphasized • Field experiences fully integrated into the curriculum, not separate • Experiential learning encouraged, such as prison chaplaincy and interfaith hevrutah (paired text study) Read about Rabbi Mira Wasserman, Ph.D., one of the innovative scholars on our faculty, and her class in Talmud ethics on page 13. 4 RECONSTRUCTIONIST HOME | RABBINICAL EDUCATION | OUR GRADUATES | COMMUNITY | YOU MAKE A | CAMP JRF | FINANCIALS | TAKE ACTION RABBINICAL COLLEGE & BEYOND ENGAGEMENT DIFFERENCE and JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST COMMUNITIES Field Experiences Meet some of our current students and learn how a range of field experiences help shape their development into rabbis. RABBINICAL EDUCATION Clinical Pastoral Education College Campus & BEYOND Education Work Kate Cook Ariana Katz Jason Bonder Clinical Pastoral Education Kol Tzedek University of Delaware Hillel My first CPE internship was an intensive As the Torah School director at Kol Tzedek, My internship this year was particularly summer spent at the Hospitals of the I have seen how heymish, loving and helpful because there is no other University of Pennsylvania. I supported joyful Jewish education can be. I have rabbinic presence at this Hillel. I had patients and families in the emergency developed curricula that are rooted in a great support from professors and department and intensive care units. Through Reconstructionist relationship to Judaism mentors at RRC, but once I got onto moments of crisis and often grief, I learned plus a strong commitment to social justice. campus, I was the rabbi this year! That the value of presence as a chaplain, and I observed how our students flower when was a huge step for my development. have been able to inhabit this role with given the chance to lead the discussion, For the first time, I wasn’t taking on increasing competence. build their own relationships and discover projects that got filtered down to me their own truths. Support from my rabbinic through a supervisor. Rather, I had My second CPE experience has been in a supervisors, both at work and at RRC, has to test my skills in many areas, from rehabilitation unit, working with patients and helped me develop. I’m learning how to halakhah to spiritual advice. This families as they negotiate the difficulties of nourish children and help them grow into was a great challenge and a recovery from amputation, stroke and brain invested members of our community, as rewarding experience. injury. This often involves long-term care comfortable and confident Jews. and allows me to establish close working relationships. Both experiences have proven invaluable to my development, and they have solidified my decision to pursue hospital chaplaincy as my rabbinical career. 5 RECONSTRUCTIONIST HOME | RABBINICAL EDUCATION | OUR GRADUATES | COMMUNITY | YOU MAKE A | CAMP JRF | FINANCIALS | TAKE ACTION RABBINICAL COLLEGE & BEYOND ENGAGEMENT DIFFERENCE and JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST COMMUNITIES Congregational Chaplaincy Social Justice and Work Multifaith Organizing RABBINICAL EDUCATION & BEYOND Ruhi Sophia Motzkin Rubenstein Ariel Tarash Jacob Adler Congregational Intern Monroe Village Senior Intern for the Tikkun Olam Congregation Beit Simchat Torah Adult Community Commission of the Jewish At CBST, I learned to be a rabbi in the field. I connect with the hearts and souls of Reconstructionist Communities
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