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Reconstructionism Today

RT Article: A New Reconstructionist Music Network
By Cantor Sharon Hordes
Answering the question of "Is there such a thing as Reconstructionist Music?" this article reports on the "Multi-Themed Sharing Session for JRF Muscians" workshop at the JRF Portland Convention of 2004.
RT Article: Art and the Jewish Imagination: The Spiritual Power of Jewish Music
By Judith Kaplan Eisenstein
In her article, Eisenstein explores her spiritual connection to Judaism through music and chronicles the beginnings of transcendental Jewish melody.
RT Article: Art and the Jewish Imagination: Welcoming the Artist into Jewish Life
By Liz Lerman
Liz Lerman chronicles how Jewish art used to exist on the fringes of Jewish communal life through, "mutual abandonment." However, the avant-garde has recently begun to move into the institutions of Jewish life, prompting Lerman to hope for a Jewish renaissance in a merging of art and community.
RT Article: Reconstructionist Art
A Visual Gallery
RT Article: Two Reconstructionist Artists Rediscovered
By Lawrence Bush, Cheryl Chase Slutzky
Lionel S. Reiss: In the Footsteps of the Wandering Jew / Moshe Nathanson: The Reconstructionist Who Wrote "Hava Nagila"

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