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Resolution on Anti-Semitism and Divestment
WHEREAS as the intifada continues, many church spokespersons have too frequently tied the murdering of Jews to Arab poverty and frustration; and
WHEREAS anti-Semitism is once again on the rise, particularly in Europe;...
Resolution on Interfaith Relations
WHEREAS we are bidden שלום דרכי מפני (for ways of peace) and הבריות שלום מפני (for peace among all creatures) and איבה מפני (to avoid hatred) and ה׳ חילול מפני (to avoid disgrace) and העולם תקון מפני (for improving the world) to be concerned...
Resolution on Global Warming and Endangered Species
WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly has always based its environmental resolutions on the principles of:
Responsibilities to future generations: "Therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live" (Deuteronomy...
Resolution in Support of Stem Cell Research and Education
WHEREAS there is a serious shortage of organs available for transplantation, leading to thousands of deaths each year;
WHEREAS serious illnesses and conditions leading to disability and often death may be ameliorated or cured through...
Resolution on Support for Informed Access to Reproductive Care
Background:
On December 8, 2004, President George Bush signed into law the FY 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Included in this omnibus appropriations bill is a provision known as the Weldon Federal Refusal Clause. This provision was...
Resolution on Social Security
Background:
The Social Security system is funded primarily from payroll tax deductions by employees and their employers. The Social Security Trust Fund, held in United States Treasury bonds, provides interest to cover a shortfall in any...
Resolution on the Israeli Peace Process
WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly, whose members serve as rabbis in Israel and the Diaspora, is an affiliate of the worldwide Masorti/Conservative movement, which supports the goals of Zionism as an integral facet of its commitment to the welfare...
Resolution in Support of the Conservative Movement World Wide
WHEREAS the members of the Rabbinical Assembly have been in the forefront of establishing institutions of our movement both in ארץ ישראל (the land of Israel) and worldwide;
WHEREAS members of the Rabbinical Assembly have committed...
Resolution in Support of Mercaz Olami Electoral Campaigns
WHEREAS the worldwide Conservative/Masorti movement is represented in the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency for Israel by MERCAZ Olami; and
WHEREAS the participation in the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency has...
Resolution on Responding to the Humanitarian Crisis in the Sudan
“In a free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty, all are responsible.” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
WHEREAS the decades-long civil war in the Sudan has already taken 2,000,000 lives and there is an ongoing campaign of...