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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
Ushpizin
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
Seder N'tilat Lulav
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
Hakafot
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot on the Hakafot for Simhat Torah, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
Simhat Torah Songsheet
This ready-to-use songsheet was compiled by Ashira Konigsburg, Assistant Director of Rabbinic Services, RA.
Purim Song Sheet
This 1-page song sheet, prepared by Yossi Hoffman, contains the text, transliteration, and translation of popular songs for Purim.
CM Mission to Israel Fourth Day Report - Thursday August 21, 2014
August 21, 2014
Update from Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg:
This morning, we were privileged to take part in a ceremony dedicating the donation of the first permanent Torah at Azarat Yisrael. The Torah was donated by Larry Ritter of Israel Tours Connections.
Economic Justice
Civilized societies have confronted poverty for millennia. Jews, comprising one of the olderst societies in the world, have developed an ideology and a code of law and ethics affirming that it is an obligation of both the individual and the...
CM Mission to Israel Third Day Report - Wednesday August 20, 2014
August 20, 2014
Update from Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg:
Today began with everyone informally checking in about how we all fared in last night's siren. People seemed to fare okay, though we know that one siren hardly compares to what residents of the...
CM Mission to Israel Second Day Report - Tuesday August 19, 2014
August 19, 2014
Update from Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg:
Our day began visiting the Iron Dome battery near Ashdod. Relik Shafir met us there. Shafir is a retired Israeli Air Force pilot, who flew on the successful mission to bomb the Osirak nuclear...
#CMinIsrael
August 18, 2014
View daily reports and photos of the RA-Masorti Emergency Solidarity Mission. Also follow us on Twitter for live updates from the mission.
First Day Report - August 18, 2014
Second Day Report - August 19, 2014
Third Day...
CM Mission to Israel First Day Report - Monday August 18, 2014
August 18, 2014
Update from Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg:
Over 50 people gathered at the David Citadel Hotel this evening to open the Conservative Movement Solidarity Mission. Our delegation includes 15 rabbis, 2 cantors, several other synagogue...
Rabbinical Assembly Expresses Concern over Impartiality of United Nations Human Rights Council Panel
August 15, 2014
RA calls on the United Nations to select an impartial and fair chair of the Human Rights Council
New York – In response to the appointment of Professor William Schabas as chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which was bestowed...
Resolutions
Each year the Rabbinical Assembly passes a number of resolutions on pressing matters impacting the countries and regions where we live, the State of Israel and the...
Resolutions on Civil Rights
August 13, 2014
Each year the Rabbinical Assembly passes a number of resolutions on pressing matters impacting the countries and regions where we live, the State of Israel and the future of our shared world. Passing the resolutions allows the RA to take...
Human Rights
As far back as 1950, the Rabbinical Assembly called upon the United States to ratify the UN Genocide Convention. The Convention was not ratified by the US until 1988. The RA reiterated this position in resolutions in 1954, 1963, 1965, and 1966,...