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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
Purim Song Sheet
This 1-page song sheet, prepared by Yossi Hoffman, contains the text, transliteration, and translation of popular songs for Purim.
Al Ha-nissim
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A
Lighting the Hanukkah Candles: Blessings & Songs
Text, translation, and transliteration of the blessings and popular songs to accompany the lighting
Tishah B'Av Resources
Most of these resources have been excerpted from Siddur Tisha B'Av PDF, Copyright 2003, The Rabbinical Assembly.
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.
Hodesh Tov - Tishrei
The Rise of the Babylonian Rabbinic Academy: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
by Jeffrey Rubenstein, Skirball Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, New York...
RA Condemns Violence in Cairo, Libya
NEW YORK – In response to violence in Cairo and Libya earlier this week, leaving three dead including American Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, Julie Schonfeld issued the following statement today on behalf of the board, staff and members of...
Food Stamp Challenge
In taking the Food Stamp Challenge, you will personally experience the challenges of hunger in the United States – challenges that the 1 in 7 Americans who use food stamps, including nearly 25% a quarter of all American children, face daily. This...
RA Voices Aversion Toward a Controversial Circumcision-Related Practice
NEW YORK – The New York City Board of Health is scheduled to vote this week on requiring parental consent for mohalim to engage in the controversial practice of m'tzitzah b’peh, or direct oral suction, during a b'rit milah. The Rabbinical...
RA Sends Condolences to Rabbi Attacked in Berlin
RA Expresses Concern for Anti-Semitic Violence
NEW YORK – Earlier this week, Daniel Alter, one of the first liberal rabbis to be ordained in Germany since the Holocaust, and the former rabbi of the Masorti congregation in Oldenburg,...
New York Times Article about the Joint Placement Commission
We are aware of a New York Times column by Sam Freedman regarding the Conservative Movement's Joint Placement commission comprising the Rabbinical Assembly, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, The Jewish Theological Seminary and the Ziegler...
Rabbinical Assembly Statement on European Efforts to Ban Circumcision
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
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
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.