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Summer 2007 Reconstructionism Today
August 23, 2007 - 12:32pm — Lisa Tuttle
Now read RT online!
The Summer 2007 issue of JRF's magazine, Reconstructionism Today (RT) - "a voice for creative Jewish living" - is now online. This issue will not be mailed as we experiment with a new way of publishing that we hope will have many benefits.
Pursue Justice: Rabbi Me'irah IliinskyIn this issue:
- Congregation-Based Community Organizing: A Reconstructionist Approach to Living a Godly Life by Rabbi Shawn Zevit with Brian Fink
- From Education to Identity: The Potential for Reconstructionist Innovation by Dr. Carl Sheingold
- On Our Evolving Liturgy: A Response to Dan Cedarbaum by Elaine Moise
- Its Time Has Come: Of Taoism, Space Aliens, and God-Language by Rabbi Jeremy Schwartz
- A Responsible Life: The Spiritual Path of Mussar reviewed by Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer
- Of Mark Rothko, Jewish Identity and Reconstructionism: Launching the "Recon Salons" by Barry Nove
- Curaçao's Mikve-Israel Emmanuel turns 275 by Ruth Wegner and Jonathan Markowitz
- JRF Welcomes its Newest Affiliate: Temple Israel of Duluth, Minnesota
and more!
Click on the attachment below to download and read the issue. You are welcome to forward this publication.
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| RT Summer 2007 v-web.pdf | 969.16 KB |
Comments
Nice post
Nice post indeed!
Brass
Nice way of looking at it. screws
Reconstruction
this is a great news because you are updating your website to help other people understand what this article is all about.
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Good info
RT Not Being Mailed: A Mistake
What are the goals of this "experiment" to not mail RT?
If the goal is to see if JRF will save money, I can tell you, right now, that it will.
If the goal is to see if more people will read RT, I can tell you, right now, they won't. A lot less people will read Reconstructionism Today. And that's a pity.
I belong to Darchei Noam - a Reconstructionist congregation with close to 600 adult members. Believe it or not, most of them are not ideologues, not intellectuals, not internet addicts, and not overly emotionally committed to the JRF or Reconstructionism. If they receive a journal in the mail, they will leaf through it and maybe read some of the articles. They will not seek it out online. Even most of our committed members will not do that.
A printed journal is something that more than one person in a household may read. People may lend it to a friend, or friends may see it lying around and pick it up or ask about it. You can put it down if you are busy, and then pick it up later when it catches your eye. None of this is true of an online journal, which is directed primarily at the committed (and technologically comfortable) elite.
I hope you quickly reconsider this "experiment". An online RT does not replace the value of the printed version arriving in your mail box.
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Sydney Nestel
RT Online
Hi:
It's a great issue, and it's great to see RT online, but --
by not having a mailed version, you may be disenfranchising some of our members!
Hard as it is to believe, even here at Keddem in Silicon Valley not every one of our members has email or knows how to use a browser. We wanted to do our newsletter online only and got a lot of pushback.
It's also still true, I think, that if it's online many fewer people will read it. We will always, I think, need printed copies of RT to be sent to some folks.
RT Online
Having RT online may be a great idea, especially for those who may be browsing through and not connected as members of JRF. However, it has definitely made members feel disenfranchised. Believe it or not, those of us who spend so much time online actually need an opportunity for one less webzine. One of the things that we have emphasized to members at Beit Tikvah in Baltimore is the RT publication. It is one of the very few ways to actually reach out and make congregation and individual members feel connected to the JRF. We are missing a very important connection with this depersonalized approach. We are also missing an important outreach tool. We need to be very careful of losing our personal connections.
The current paucity of print JRF publications (brochures, RT, etc.)is not helpful in trying to spread the word.