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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.
Tradition and Change
March 20, 2013
By Elliot Salo Schoenberg
My father's yahrzeit is the week before Passover. He is gone now 26 years. He always led the seder wearing the same white and blue kippah. He loved eating boiled potatoes for karpas. He would read...
A Message from Paul Plotkin of the CJLS Kashrut Subcommittee
March 19, 2013
Dear Colleagues,
The most recent issue of Kolot printed a brief summary of Rabbi Golinkin's tshuvah for the Vaad Halacha of Israel permitting kitniyot.
It has led to many congregants believing that the Conservative Movement in the...
Resources for Passover and Shavuot
March 18, 2013
We hope you enjoy this collection of thought and inspiration for Passover and Shavuot. As Jewish communities around the world gather to sit at their seider tables this year, we are thankful for the freedoms we experience every day, from ...
Reflections on Redemption, National and Personal
March 18, 2013
By Gerry Skolnik
Every year, as we prepare to celebrate the festival of Passover, I find myself struggling with the same issue. More than any other Jewish holiday, Passover lends itself to “universalization.” The theme of “from enslavement...
Hodesh Tov - Nisan
"New Insights from the Mishnah"
by Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture at The Jewish Theological Seminary
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Note: this podcast is a section of the keynote...
Why Do We Sing the Song of Songs on Passover?
March 6, 2013
by Benjamin Edidin Scolnic | Published in CJ Journal, Vol. 48 No. 4, Summer 1996.
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Convention 2013: Schedule
March 5, 2013
The tentative schedule is as follows (subject to change):
Tuesday afternoon, June 25: Minhah for the Seventeenth of Tammuz (6 PM), limmud with Tamar Elad-Appelbaum: "How Will We Sing Songs of Zion in the Land of Zion" (7 PM), ma’ariv featuring...
Resolutions Procedure
March 4, 2013
Rules of Procedure for Resolutions – Approved 6/13/2017
(Section 4b was approved by the Executive Council on July 20, 2022)
Annual Resolutions Cycle
Tier 1
1. A Resolutions Committee and Chair shall be appointed by the...
Eit Ratzon: A Seminar on Employment Transition
This workshop, which will take place at the office of the RA, will help you:
Adjust to a new spiritual leader
Manage the psychological dilemmas
Learn tools to work with your new rabbi
You a will learn the common language of...
RA and Jewish Lights Publishing Announce New Joint Publishing Imprint
February 21, 2013
NEW YORK – The Rabbinical Assembly and Jewish Lights, a leading publisher of books and LifeLights™ pastoral care resources that reflect the Jewish wisdom tradition for people of all faiths and all backgrounds, announced the establishment of a new...