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Conservative Movement Affirms Rights of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People
NEW YORK — In light of continued discrimination against individuals who are transgender or gender non-conforming, the world’s Conservative and Masorti rabbis for the first time have passed a stand-alone resolution affirming the rights...
Joint Statement Regarding Meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu about Kotel Agreement
The following statement was released last night, June 1, 2016.
Today, a delegation of senior North American Jewish leaders, representing the Jewish Federations of North America, the Union for Reform Judaism, the Israel...
Conservative Rabbis Condemn Brussels Attacks, Pray for Victims
NEW YORK - In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Belgium Tuesday morning and reports that ISIS is now claiming responsibility for these horrific murders, the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association for...
Taking A Stand For Unity
This week, we will join 20,000 fellow Jews in Washington, DC for the annual AIPAC policy conference. And this year, as in prior election years, the leading presidential candidates—Donald Trump among them—will take the stage to address...
Rabbinical Assembly Responds to Right-Wing Efforts to Disparage Non-Orthodox Jews
Calls for Swift Implementation of Kotel Deal
NEW YORK – In the weeks since the historic agreement to create a permanent space for pluralistic and egalitarian prayer at the...
Conservative Rabbis Mourn the Loss of an American Tourist, Stand with Israel in Combatting Terrorism
NEW YORK – Following reports of a wave of terror attacks in Israel on Tuesday in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Petah Tikva, the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association for Conservative/Masorti rabbis, released the following statement:...
Statement on Behalf of Worldwide Masorti/Conservative Movement Regarding Egalitarian Prayer at the Kotel Decision
NEW YORK - Today marks an historic moment as the Israeli governing Cabinet has approved a proposal to create a permanent space for pluralistic and egalitarian prayer at the Kotel (Western Wall). This space will accommodate all forms of prayer...
CM Statement on Incitement
This week, Im Tirtzu released a video accusing well-known human rights activists in Israel as being enemy agents of the state, while President Rivlin has continued to be the target of incendiary language, most recently from the Heritage...
Rabbinical Assembly Denounces Inflammatory Anti–Muslim Rhetoric
NEW YORK – The Rabbinical Assembly, the international association for Conservative/Masorti rabbis, has become increasingly troubled by growing inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric. The organization released the following statement:
Conservative Rabbis Call Out Chief Rabbi for Divisive Comments
NEW YORK – Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau has criticized Bayit Yehudi chairman and Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s December 1 visit to the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan. In response to the Chief Rabbi’s insulting and...