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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.
MOCA Mondays
MOCA (Meditations on Career Advancement) is a teleconference for RA members about career development and best practices in the search process.Topic: TBD Dial-in info: 1-800-566-2245, passcode 206208 Elliot Schoenberg, RA International Director...
MOCA Mondays
MOCA (Meditations on Career Advancement) is a teleconference for RA members about career development and best practices in the search process.Topic: TBD Dial-in info: 1-800-566-2245, passcode 206208 Elliot Schoenberg, RA International Director...
MOCA Mondays
MOCA (Meditations on Career Advancement) is a teleconference for RA members about career development and best practices in the search process.Topic: TBD Dial-in info: 1-800-566-2245, passcode 206208 Elliot Schoenberg, RA International Director...
Writing the Perfect Resume
Listen to the recordingMOCA (Meditations on Career Advancement) is a teleconference for RA members about career development and best practices in the search process.Topic: Writing the Perfect ResumePresenter: Debra Laks, resume consultant to...
MOCA Mondays: Parsonage
MOCA (Meditations on Career Advancement) is a teleconference for RA members about career development and best practices in the search process.Topic: ParsonageGuest Presenters: Mitch Smilowitz Dial-in info: 1-800-566-2245, passcode...
A Meditation on the Tragedies of Recent Days
From RA President Gerry Skolnik
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The month of Av has come upon us in a manner true to historical form. Mishenikhnas Av, m'ma'atin b'simhah... When the month of Av begins, we are told, we are...
Hodesh Tov - Av
"Prophet of a New Paradigm: What the Ba'al Shem Tov's Pillar Prayer Can Teach the Children of Abraham Today"
by Aubrey Glazer, Jewish Community Center of...
A Prayer in Response to the Terror Attack in Bulgaria
By Menachem Creditor
Dear God,
It is just too much. On the eighteenth anniversary of the attack that killed eighty-seven of our brothers and sisters in Buenos Aires, we have lost more of our family, this time in Bulgaria. Again. It...
Solomon Schechter Schools Will Always Be Part of the Conservative Jewish Movement
By Julie Schonfeld
Originally posted in The Huffington Post
The Forward recently reported that the Solomon Schechter Day School Network is examining the possibility of spinning off as an independent organization from USCJ, the...
Statement on Jonathan Pollard
NEW YORK – On behalf of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international umbrella organization for Conservative rabbis, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, the Rabbinical Assembly’s executive vice president, said the following today:
“Jonathan Pollard has...