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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
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Purim Song Sheet

This 1-page song sheet, prepared by Yossi Hoffman, contains the text, transliteration, and translation of popular songs for Purim.
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Al Ha-nissim

This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A
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Lighting the Hanukkah Candles: Blessings & Songs

Text, translation, and transliteration of the blessings and popular songs to accompany the lighting
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Tishah B'Av Resources

Most of these resources have been excerpted from Siddur Tisha B'Av PDF, Copyright 2003, The Rabbinical Assembly.
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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.
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Keep the Ban on Pulpit Politics

By Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy and Julie Schonfeld

Originally posted in The Hill

Earlier this month, the Commission on Accountability and Policy for Religious Organizations released a report recommending that the government lift the ban...

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Milestones in the Struggle for Egalitarian Prayer at the Kotel and the Robinson’s Arch Initiative

The following timeline was put together by the Masorti Movement in Israel:

Since 1980, Egalitarian Masorti/Conservative minyanim have gathered and davenned without interruption in the upper Kotel plaza (on the edge of the...

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The Faith Community's Role in Ending Modern-Day Slavery

By Julie Schonfeld

Modern-day slavery is a high-profit and low-risk endeavor that allows criminals, through their cruel enslavement of innocent people, to profit by $32 billion per year.

Last spring, The President's Advisory...

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Resources for the High Holidays

As Jewish communities around the world gather to celebrate the new year, we hope you enjoy this collection of thought and inspiration for the High Holidays.

These articles, which draw upon Jewish tradition in the context of...

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Looking Towards 5774

By Gerry Skolnik

As an unrepentant (if older and wiser) child of the sixties, I have always considered it one of the sacred tasks of parenting to insure that my children -- all four of them -- know and appreciate the music that shaped my...

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White House Briefing on Peace Process

By Julie Schonfeld

Last week I attended a small meeting with a number of Jewish communal representatives with Secretary of State John Kerry and the President's National Security Advisor Ambassador Susan Rice, who gave an update on...

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Rabbis Call with Ambassador Michael Oren

We invite you to join Ambassador Michael Oren for a conversation with rabbis throughout the United States. Ambassador Oren will reflect on this past year and look to challenges and opportunities facing Israel and the American Jewish community in the...
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Body Image: What are We Ashamed of?

By Mark Greenspan

Parashat B’reishit, Genesis 1:1-6:8
"Public Appearance and Behavior" by Gordon Tucker (pp. 373) in The Observant Life

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Chicago Conversion Bet Din Not Endorsed by the RA

The Rabbinical Assembly, the international membership association of Conservative/Masorti rabbis has received numerous queries regarding an organization known as the “Chicago Conversion Beit Din.” The Chicago Conversion Beit Din, one of whose...

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Hodesh Tov - Elul

“The Prayer for the Government: Political Functions of Liturgy”

by Robert Scheinberg, United Synagogue of Hoboken

Materials for Download:

The "congregational" version of this presentation (includes some scans of siddurim)

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