Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly is greatly concerned by the resurgence of virulent anti-Semitism in North America, Europe and around the globe both from the extreme right and the extreme left; and 

Whereas the last year has seen scores of anti-Semitic attacks on cemeteries, JCC’s, synagogues, Jewish organizations and individual Jewish public figures including journalists and rabbis, some of whom are members of the Conservative/Masorti Movement; and

WHEREAS Jewish tradition teaches that we are not to stand idly by at the suffering of other human beings; and

WHEREAS the world community has witnessed a number of war crimes and human rights violations in the past century which continue to bring an abhorrent level of loss and suffering to innocent people; and