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Resolution On Global Anti-Semitism
Whereas the members of the Rabbinical Assembly are greatly concerned by the persistence and resurgence of anti-Semitism around the world; and Whereas in the Middle East, leaders have failed to speak out against false and incendiary allegations such...
Resolution on the AMIA in Argentina
Whereas Jews converted by the Bet Din of the Masorti Movement in Buenos Aires suffer discrimination by the authorities of the Asociacion Mutual Argentina – AMIA; and
Whereas there is no member of the Rabbinical Assembly represented in the AMIA,...
Resolution on Support for Denominational Education in Ontario
WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly is on record supporting equal funding for all forms of denominational education in Ontario; and
WHEREAS the government of Ontario has indicated in its prospective budget the intention to phase in a refundable tax...
RA Standards Working Group Report 2024
Working group members:
Aaron Brusso, Chair
Pamela Barmash, Bruce Bromberg Seltzer, Mikie Goldstein, Josh Heller, Lauren Henderson, Amy Levin, Michael Knopf, Stewart Vogel, Eric Woodward, Eric Yanoff
Jacob Blumenthal,...
Resolution on Jerusalem and The Temple Mount
WHEREAS the Temple Mount and the remnants of the Temple have been sacred to the people of Israel and to the Jewish religion for centuries; and WHEREAS Moslem religious leaders have denied this historic connection of Judaism and the Jewish People to...
Resolution on Prayer at Public School Sporting Events
WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly has consistently sought to uphold the separation of religion and state in the United States; and
WHEREAS prayers recited over public address systems at public school sporting events such as football games have been...
Resolution on Interreligious Dialogue
WHEREAS the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 illustrated the very worst of human nature, in the suffering and destruction that is caused by hatred of a people, a nation or a group; and
WHEREAS the firemen, police, rescue workers, and...
Resolution on Persecuted Christians
April 7, 2016
Whereas The Rabbinical Assembly has consistently stood for the Jewish ideals of love of Mankind (Hoshea 6:6- hesed hafatsti v'lo zevah), Brotherhood (V'ahavta l'reaha Kamokha: Lev, 19:18 ), and hatred of persecution and ethnicide (lo tonu et ha-ger...
Resolution Against Anti-Muslim Bigotry and for Jewish-Muslim Dialogue
April 7, 2016
Whereas core Jewish values demand that we do not stand idly by while the blood of our neighbors is shed; and
Whereas Jewish tradition asserts that human beings are created in the Divine Image and that all life is sacred; and
Whereas Muslims...