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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.
Livestreaming on Shabbat and Haggim
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to share the teshuvah about livestreaming on Shabbat and haggim that was passed by the CJLS on Wednesday, May 13. This teshuvah, authored by Joshua Heller, had been in the works for some time. Given its...
Join Us for the Abayudaya Unity Benefit Concert
Ugandan Jews are no strangers to poverty and disease, but the most recent government lockdown measures to control the spread of COVID-19 have crippled their ability to succeed in that most basic of human activities: gathering food. And...
Rabbinical Assembly Statement on the Right to Vote by Absentee Ballot
In its March 2019 Resolution on Voting Rights in the United States of America, the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association for Conservative/Masorti rabbis, called on state legislatures to remove unnecessary and restrictive barriers to...
Resolution on Antisemitism
Whereas, antisemitism is the most ancient form of hatred, manifesting itself in different cultures and civilizations and has reached a record high in the 40 years that the ADL has been tracking such incidents; and
Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
“Great is human dignity, since it overrides a negative precept of the Torah.” (Sanhedrin 19b)
Whereas we hold the concepts of Tzelem Elohim and k’vod habri’ot as sacred and...
High Holy Days Preparations
Hevre,
We hope this message finds you and your families well.
Over the past several weeks, each of us - the CA, NAASE, RA, and USCJ - has been working with synagogue leadership and colleagues within and across our networks to...
Announcing Our Director of Global Rabbinic Development: Ilana Garber
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce that, starting July 1, Ilana Garber will be our Director of Global Rabbinic Development. This new position was created in response to our Strategic Plan, which...
Update on Reopening our Institutions, Shavuot, and High Holidays
Dear Friends,
As we move through Yom Hashoah, to Yom Hazikaron, to Yom Ha'atzma'ut, the progression of themes of weekly parshiyot are quite striking. We move from illness (Tazria/Metzorah) to death and then to holiness...
Sefirat Haomer
May a person be released from Omer restrictions (e.g. haircuts) before Shavuot if the opportunity arises without guarantee of its availability later?
(Answer by Rabbi Gail Labovitz) The custom of not holding weddings during...