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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...
Kol Nidrei 5781/2020
Prepared by Rabbi Pamela Barmash and Rabbi Nate Crane.
Please note that this is not an official responsum of the CJLS.
1) Is there an obligation to...
Multiple Recitations of the Same Liturgy
Prepared by Rabbi Aaron Alexander.
Please note that this is not an official responsum of the CJLS.
Question: In light...