The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF), founded in 1955, was the

synagogue A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of wor ...

arm of

Reconstructionist Judaism Reconstructionist Judaism is a Jewish movement that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization rather than a religion, based on concepts developed by Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983). The movement originated as a semi-organized stream w ...

, serving more than 100 congregations and havurot spread across

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. In June 2012, the Reconstructionist movement underwent a restructuring that merged JRF with the

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) is a Jewish seminary in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. It is the only seminary affiliated with Reconstructionist Judaism. It is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Associa ...

to form a new national organization initially name
RRC and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities
The merged organization was initially headed by Rabbi

Dan Ehrenkrantz Dan Ehrenkrantz is an American Reconstructionist rabbi, currently serving as the outgoing president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. Career Ehrenkrantz graduated magna cum laude with B.A. degree in Relig ...

, a 1989 graduate of the College, and currently by Rabbi

Deborah Waxman Deborah Waxman is an American rabbi and the president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism (the merged organization of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities). Waxman was inaugurated as the president of ...

who took over in 2014. In January 2018, the merged organization changed its name to

Reconstructing Judaism Reconstructionist Judaism is a Jewish movement that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization rather than a religion, based on concepts developed by Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983). The movement originated as a semi-organized stream wi ...

References

External links

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, New York, NY {{Organized Jewish Life in the United States World Union for Progressive Judaism