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The media coverage of Convention was extensive, including articles in JTA, CNN, LA Times, Haaretz, Maariv, Yediot, and more.

A more comprehensive list of media coverage is available on these topics:

Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly passed resolutions in 2007, 2008, and 2010, expressing our concern over the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran;

Whereas the regime of Iran, and in particular its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and...

Whereas Israel’s Declaration of Independence proclaims equality in social and political rights, including women’s rights, stating that Israel “will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants...

Whereas the Conservative Yeshiva of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism was established in 1995 with a handful of students, and has grown since then to more than 200 students annually in its year-long and summer...

It has become increasingly the case that when Masorti/Conservative groups have wished to daven in Israeli hotels, they have been denied the use of hotel-owned Sifrei Torah if the service was not in accordance with...

Whereas Alan Gross was arrested in Cuba in December 2009 while on a humanitarian mission to help the small Cuban Jewish community improve internet access;

Whereas he has been incarcerated ever since, sentenced to 15 years in...

Whereas Jewish tradition commands us to “open your hand [to the poor person] and provide sufficient for the need” (Deut. 15:8); instructs that “[i]f your brother, being in straits, comes under your authority, you shall strengthen him”...

Whereas Judaism believes in the equality of all human beings regardless of race, creed or financial position;

Whereas Deuteronomy 16 commands, “You shall not judge unfairly: you shall know no partiality; you shall not take gifts,...

Over the past four decades the Rabbinical Assembly has consistently supported reproductive freedom. This support is firmly based on our members’ understanding of relevant biblical and rabbinic sources as well as teshuvot...

Hydraulic Fracturing, also known as hydrofracturing or fracking, is the extraction of natural gas from previously impermeable shale. The process uses 1-4 millions of gallons of water withdrawn from streams and rivers,...