Press Releases and Statements

NEW YORK, NY (February 27, 2023) In response to growing tensions and the recent escalation of violence in Israel, the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international association of Conservative/Masorti rabbis, issued the following statement:"The...

NEW YORK, NY (February 21, 2023) In response to the hate crime charges brought by the U.S. Justice Department against Jaime Tran for targeting and shooting two recognizably Jewish men outside two Los Angeles synagogues, the Rabbinical Assembly (RA),...

NEW YORK, NY (February 9, 2023) In response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to maintain the "status quo" at the Western Wall, the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international association of Conservative/Masorti rabbis, issued...

NEW YORK, NY (July 18, 2022) The Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international association for Conservative/Masorti rabbis, issued the following statement about the Presbyterian Church's labeling Israel an apartheid state: "The Presbyterian...

NEW YORK, NY (May 2, 2022) For over five decades, the Rabbinical Assembly has strongly and repeatedly affirmed the halakhic necessity of access to abortion based on our members’ understanding of relevant biblical and rabbinic sources and teshuvot –...

NEW YORK, NY (May 3, 2022) According to a draft majority opinion, the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn its previous landmark decisions, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, effectively ending the constitutional right to abortion. For...

NEW YORK, NY (March 30, 2022) In response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks in Israel, the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international association of Conservative/Masorti movement rabbis, issued the following statement:"The Rabbinical Assembly...

In response to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s directive to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to treat gender-affirming medical care as "child abuse," the Rabbinical Assembly (RA) issued the following statement: We are...