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Reconstructionist
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reconstructionist
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Adjective
en Judaism Of or pertaining to Reconstructionist Judaism. 20th c.
en Shelley Kapnek Rosenberg Adoption and the Jewish Family: Contemporary Perspectives https://books.google.com/books?id=69-tOtGp6B8C Philadelphia and Jerusalem The Jewish Publication Society 1998 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=69-tOtGp6B8C&pg=PA13 0-8276-0653-2 Rabbi Sherry Shulewitz, associate executive director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, explains that in the Reconstructionist view, “conversion is a gateway to membership in the Jewish people and a gift that the Jewish people offer new members.”
Noun
en countable Judaism Someone who adheres to Reconstructionist Judaism. 20th c.
en Stephen H. Norwood, Eunice G. Pollack Jacob J. Staub Encyclopedia of American Jewish History https://books.google.com/books?id=NuTNEAAAQBAJ 1 28 August 2007 Bloomsbury Publishing USA 93 https://books.google.com/books?id=NuTNEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA93 9781851096435 Reconstructionists view the Jewish people as the unchanging constant through history in which beliefs, practices, and institutions have continuously evolved.