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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.
Transition and New Beginnings
By Elliot Salo Schoenberg
Adapted from The Highway,
a complete search manual for rabbis seeking new rabbinic positions
New Beginnings
William Bridges, an internationally acclaimed transition...
Resolution Opposing Anti-Israel Activities on Campus
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly has passed resolutions opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, most recently in 2005 and attempts to delegitimize Israel in 2010;
Whereas anti-Semitism is once again on...
Resolution in Support of KOACH
Whereas KOACH, our Conservative Movement program for college students, provides the opportunity to maintain and develop connections to Conservative Judaism, promotes the Torah of Conservative Judaism on campus and provides a wide range...
Encore Conference 2012
A one-day conference at the offices of the Rabbinical Assembly to envision what retirement might look like. The seminar will focus on both the psychological and practical aspects of retirement. The Joint Retirement Board of the Conservative...
President Obama Meets with Leaders of the Conservative Movement
Washington, DC -- President Obama met yesterday with a group of Conservative rabbis and Conservative Movement leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House (See list of attendees below).
The wide-ranging discussion included a focus on...
Recognition of Non-Orthodox Rabbis is a Partial -- But Hopeful -- Victory
By Julie Schonfeld
Originally posted in Haaretz
The decision by the Attorney General to recognize Masorti and Reform rabbis as community leaders and fund their salaries under certain limited circumstances could be an inflection...
Agunot & Memorial Day
By Ashira Konigsburg
“A Personal Message on an Important Theme.” These vague words written on the cover of a long forgotten pamphlet gave little hint as to the weight of the history found inside.
In 1942 as thousands of Jewish...
Hodesh Tov - Sivan
"The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus"
by Marjorie Lehman, Associate Professor, Talmud and Rabbinics, The Jewish Theological...
Mazal Tov to the Newest RA Members
The Rabbinical Assembly extends a hearty mazal tov to our new colleagues who were ordained at the ordination ceremonies of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and the Jewish Theological Seminary:
Joshua AckermanElan Babchuck...