Reconstructionist

See also: reconstructionist

English

Adjective

Reconstructionist (comparative more Reconstructionist, superlative most Reconstructionist)

  1. (Judaism) Of or pertaining to Reconstructionist Judaism. [20th c.]
    • 1998, Shelley Kapnek Rosenberg, Adoption and the Jewish Family: Contemporary Perspectives‎[1], Philadelphia and Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 13:
      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

Reconstructionist (plural Reconstructionists)

  1. (countable, Judaism) Someone who adheres to Reconstructionist Judaism. [20th c.]
    • 2007 August 28, Jacob J. Staub, edited by Stephen H. Norwood, Eunice G. Pollack, Encyclopedia of American Jewish History‎[2], volume 1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 93:
      Reconstructionists view the Jewish people as the unchanging constant through history in which beliefs, practices, and institutions have continuously evolved.
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