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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.
Yom Iyun for Campus Rabbis
- Strengthen your connection to the Conservative Movement- Discuss issues related to being a Conservative rabbi on campusSpend the day with two of our great teachers as they discuss their latest theological writings. Connect to your movement roots.
Yom Iyun for Chaplains: Using the Psalms in Our Pastoral Work
Join us for a day of intensive Torah learning and practical skills. A panel of chaplains will share with us best practices of how they use Psalms in their pastoral settings.Deepen our understanding of the meaning, construct, and purpose of...
Kol Ishah: Leaning In, Leaning Out, Learning from Each Other
Nearly 30 years after the first woman was ordained at The Jewish Theological Seminary, the process of self-definition and defining - or "branding" - our rabbinate continues. Now 307 women strong we continue to explore the issues of work and...
Convention 2013: Recap
July 19, 2013
We are glad that many RA members joined us for the 2013 RA convention in Israel. Thanks again to co-chairs Mauricio Balter and Stuart Weinblatt as well as the entire Convention committee for their hard work in making this event such a...
Transforming Communal Prayer
Ideas that Work
Moderator: Rabbi Amy Wallk Katz
Panelists: Rabbis Bruce Dollin, Ed Feld, Salomon Gruenwald, Jan Uhrbach
Originally recorded on May 12,...
From Gerry Skolnik & Elliot Dorff: E-Readers
July 19, 2013
Dear Colleagues,
Several days ago, you received an email from our colleague, Chuck Simon, executive director of FJMC, informing us of his plans to offer an option to follow the Torah reading on Shabbat at a forthcoming FJMC convention...
Prophetic Teachings for the High Holy Days: A Two-Part Teleconference
Part I: Selected Portions of the Haftarot [Download the Recording] With Robert Harris, associate professor of Bible at JTS Linking important moral questions in the text to contemporary topics. Part II: Modern Day Slavery [Download the Recording]...
Encore Conference 2013
A one-day conference at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles to envision what retirement might look like. The seminar will focus on both the psychological and practical aspects of retirement. The Joint Retirement Board of the...
Reform, Conservative Jewish Organizational Leaders Visit Pollard in Federal Prison
July 15, 2013
RA, URJ, RAC rabbinical leadership renew call for immediate commutation of Pollard’s sentence
NEW YORK – On Thursday, July 11, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious...
Hodesh Tov - Av
“Current Trends in Medieval Biblical Exegesis”
by Robert Harris, associate professor of Bible, The Jewish Theological Seminary
Materials for...