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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.
Statement on the Release of Gilad Shalit
The Rabbinical Assembly expresses its gratitude and support to the government of Israel in its tireless efforts to bring about the release of Sergeant Gilad Shalit. After over five long, tortuous years in captivity, during which Hamas has...
Beat It! The Ritual of Havatat Aravot
By Bradley Shavit Artson, Ziegler School
This CJ Journal article originally appeared in Vol. 48, No. 4, Summer, 1996, pp. 26–34. The introduction follows below:
One of Judaism's oddest rituals is that of beating the aravot (willow...
The Release of Gilad Shalit: A Kavannah
Jews around the world watch with an expectant heart as we anticipate reports about progress, at last, to free Sergeant Gilad Shalit. We are one family, standing with Noam and Aviva Shalit, waiting breathlessly for Israel's precious son to be...
The Release of Gilad Shalit: A Prayer of Thanks
We pray for the opportunity in coming days to recite this tefillah created by our Masorti Movement in Israel:
תפילת הודיהעל שחרורו של גלעד בן אביבה ונעם שליט
אֱלֹהֵינוּ וֵאלֹהֵי...
The Sukkah as Shelter: A Source Sheet
The sukkah is a temporary structure which shelters us -- but rabbinic texts describe it as more than that. This sourcesheet for discussion or individual study looks at the concept of sukkah as shelter and how our spending time in a sukkah may...
Hodesh Tov - Heshvan
"Kabbalah East and West"
by Rabbi Pinchas Giller, Associate Professor in Medieval Jewish Thought, American Jewish...
Geshem and Tal
This ready-to-use text, which includes both Geshem for Sh'mini Atzeret and Tal for Pesah, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
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Hodesh Tov - Tishrei
“The Land of the Bible in Current Scholarship: Politics, Theology and the Academy”
by David Frankel, Lecturer in Bible at the Schechter Institute,...