During the last few weeks in February, Waxman visited Reconstructionist leaders and congregation members at Or Shalom (San Francisco, CA) Beth Israel (Eugene, OR), Havurah Shalom (Portland, OR), Temple Beth Sholom (Salem, OR), Temple Beth Hatfiloh (Olympia, WA), and Kadima (Seattle, WA).
“People [were] able to make a more direct connection with the movement, with Rabbi Waxman, with the ideology we’re connected to,” said Rabbi Seth Goldstein of Temple Beth Hatfiloh. “The fact that she visited the Northwest, which is so far from the center of the Reconstructionist movement, says a lot.”