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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.
Rabbinical Assembly Statement on European Efforts to Ban Circumcision
August 23, 2012
RA Concerned by Charges Against German Mohel, Efforts Throughout Europe to Ban Circumcision
NEW YORK – Efforts by groups opposed to circumcision, at both the local and national level in Germany, as well as in several other European...
Hodesh Tov - Elul
"Prayerbook Commentaries"
by Reuven Hammer, founding director, Schechter Institute; past president, Rabbinical...
Rabbinical Assembly Statement on Gun Control
August 17, 2012
NEW YORK – Recent weeks have seen a multiplicity of shootings in the United States. Dozens have been killed or injured. The Rabbinical Assembly, the international umbrella organization for Conservative rabbis, reiterates its opposition to gun...
The Eternal Journey: Meditations on the Jewish Year
August 10, 2012
Jonathan Wittenberg
ISBN: 0-916219-25-9
Pages: 300
"All people seek the secret of their own continuity," writes Jonathan Wittenberg. "The light of where we come from shines into the uncertainty of who we are.
Mindful Jewish Living: Compassionate Practice
August 10, 2012
Jonathan P. Slater
HC ISBN: 0-916219-23-2
PPB ISBN: 978-0-916219-23-9
Pages: 300
The practice of mindfulness is defined as "the capacity to see clearly, with calm and awakened mind and heart, the truth...
A Responsible Life The Spiritual Path of Mussar
August 10, 2012
Ira F. Stone
ISBN: 0-916219-31-3
Pages: 320
“Love your neighbor” is the central obligation of Jewish life. Mussar, a late 19th century Jewish renewal movement, focused on this precept as a means of...
The Unfolding Tradition: Philosophies of Jewish Law
August 10, 2012
Elliot N. Dorff
ISBN: 0-916219-29-1
Pages: 300
The Unfolding Tradition: Philosophies of Jewish Law analyzes the biblical and rabbinic roots of Jewish law as interpreted by leading rabbis of the Conservative...
About Aviv Press
August 10, 2012
Aviv Press, was an imprint of the Rabbinical Assembly, that published high quality Jewish books that are geared for readers of all faiths and denominations wishing to engage in an intellectually dynamic consideration of Jewish texts and...
A Prayer for the Victims of the Attack at the Sikh Temple
August 9, 2012
נַעַמְדָה יָחַדLet Us Stand Up Together*
by Naomi Levy, spiritual leader of Nashuva
We stand together in grief
For the innocent victims
Of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin
Who perished in their house of prayer.
May their memories be...
Rabbinical Assembly Expresses Condolences to Sikh Community
August 6, 2012
NEW YORK – In response to Sunday’s tragic shooting at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisc., near Milwaukee, Julie Schonfeld released the following statement:
A week ago on Tishah B’av, the Jewish...