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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.
Resolution on Health Care for the Poor
Background:
The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Created as part of the historic, bipartisan Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is the largest single expansion...
Resolution on Helping the Poor in a Recessionary Economy
WHEREAS Jewish tradition teaches “Open your hand [to the poor person] and provide sufficient for the need” (Deut. 15:8), and “Just as God clothed the naked…so too you must supply clothes for the naked [poor]” (Talmud B. Sotah 14a);”...
Resolution on Internet Privacy
Whereas the Internet has been a great advance in human communication, and in particular has provided far-reaching resources and opportunities for Jewish study;
Whereas the Internet has also opened many opportunities for invasion of...
Resolution on Health Care
Whereas Jewish law mandates that the community provide affordable health care, as evidenced in a responsum on Medical Issues: “It has been enacted that in every place in which Jews live, the community sets aside a fund for care of the sick. When...
Resolution in Support of Immigration to The United States
"You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Deuteronomy 10:19)
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly has continuously and consistently advocated for the rights of immigrants in resolutions passed in...
Resolution on The Commutation of Jonathan Pollard’s Sentence
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly has passed three resolutions (1992, 1994 and 1995) supporting clemency for Jonathan Pollard;
Whereas this past year marked twenty-five years of incarceration for Jonathan Pollard;
Whereas his sentence...
Resolution on Durban III
Whereas the book of Psalms teaches, “Guard your tongue from evil, your lips from deceitful speech. Shun evil and do good, seek amity and pursue it.” (Psalms 34:14-15);
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly is on record with previous...
Resolution Concerning the Rotem Conversion Bill in Israel
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly passed resolutions in 1990, 2001, 2007 and 2009 in support of conversions of those committed to Jewish life in accordance with halakhah in the State of Israel from all main streams of...
Resolution on Movement-Wide Support of Youth Programs
WHEREAS the needs of the Conservative Movement and especially of our youth are of utmost concerns to all Conservative Jews; and
WHEREAS staffing for our youth programs at the various Ramah camps and USY kinusim, conventions and...
Resolution on Fair Funding for Schools in Ontario
WHEREAS the Government of Ontario is constitutionally mandated to provide
for the education of every child in Ontario; and
WHEREAS the Government of Ontario currently funds the Roman Catholic
Separate School system in...