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You Shall Strengthen Them: A Rabbinic Letter on the Poor
You Shall Strengthen Them: A Rabbinic Letter on the Poor, was derived from earlier published essays
Purim Song Sheet
This 1-page song sheet, prepared by Yossi Hoffman, contains the text, transliteration, and translation of popular songs for Purim.
Al Ha-nissim
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A
Lighting the Hanukkah Candles: Blessings & Songs
Text, translation, and transliteration of the blessings and popular songs to accompany the lighting
בדיקת חמץ: The Search for Hameitz
This one-page sheet includes text, instructions, and transliteration for the ritual of searching for hameitz and the destruction of hameitz.
Al Ha-nissim for Yom Ha-atzmaut
Siddur Sim Shalom for Shabbat, Festivals, and Weekdays incorporated a new Al Ha-nissim prayer, which was modeled on the versions recited at Hanukkah and on Purim into the Amidah and Birkat Ha-mazon.
Tashlikh - Where and When
Prepared by Rabbi Aaron Alexander
Please note that this is not an official responsum of the CJLS.
The custom of Tashlikh, which is often observed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah (or day two if day one is...
On Live Streaming and Competition
Prepared by Rabbi Ariel Stofenmacher.
Please note that this is not an official responsum of the CJLS.
The advances in communications...
Yizkor for the High Holidays 5781/2020
Prepared by Rabbi Pamela Barmash
Please note that this is not an official responsum of the CJLS.
Yizkor, the term often used to refer to Hazkarat Nefashot (the collective Memorial...
Lifting Up Every Person: Thoughts on Our Parashiyot, George Floyd z"l, and Our Chaplains
Dear Friends,
Starting last Shabbat we have entered the period where communities inside and outside of the Land of Israel are reading separate parshiyot. So in Israel we are studying בהעלתך, while outside of Israel we are still focused...
Services for Children, Teenagers, and Families
Prepared by Rabbis Suzanne Brody and Susan Grossman
Please note that this is not an official responsum of the CJLS.
Watch Now: Setting Up Your Computer for Shabbat and Yom Tov
This video walks through the steps to making your computer Shabbat and Yom Tov friendly for streaming...
Conservative/Masorti Rabbis Respond to the Murder of George Floyd, Pattern of Racism, Police Brutality Against Black Americans
New York – In 2016, in response to incidents of police brutality against black people in Ferguson (Missouri), Baltimore and other cities in the United States, the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association for Conservative/Masorti rabbis,...
Clergy and Shelihei Tzibbur
Prepared by Rabbi Pamela Barmash and Toby Schonfeld, Ph.D.
Please note that this is not an official responsum of the CJLS.
Our need for community is even greater during...