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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.
Resolution on Global Warming and Endangered Species
WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly has always based its environmental resolutions on the principles of:
Responsibilities to future generations: "Therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live" (Deuteronomy...
Resolution in Support of Stem Cell Research and Education
WHEREAS there is a serious shortage of organs available for transplantation, leading to thousands of deaths each year;
WHEREAS serious illnesses and conditions leading to disability and often death may be ameliorated or cured through...
Resolution on Support for Informed Access to Reproductive Care
Background:
On December 8, 2004, President George Bush signed into law the FY 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Included in this omnibus appropriations bill is a provision known as the Weldon Federal Refusal Clause. This provision was...
Resolution on Social Security
Background:
The Social Security system is funded primarily from payroll tax deductions by employees and their employers. The Social Security Trust Fund, held in United States Treasury bonds, provides interest to cover a shortfall in any...
Resolution on the Israeli Peace Process
WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly, whose members serve as rabbis in Israel and the Diaspora, is an affiliate of the worldwide Masorti/Conservative movement, which supports the goals of Zionism as an integral facet of its commitment to the welfare...
Resolution in Support of the Conservative Movement World Wide
WHEREAS the members of the Rabbinical Assembly have been in the forefront of establishing institutions of our movement both in ארץ ישראל (the land of Israel) and worldwide;
WHEREAS members of the Rabbinical Assembly have committed...
Resolution in Support of Mercaz Olami Electoral Campaigns
WHEREAS the worldwide Conservative/Masorti movement is represented in the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency for Israel by MERCAZ Olami; and
WHEREAS the participation in the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency has...
Resolution on Responding to the Humanitarian Crisis in the Sudan
“In a free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty, all are responsible.” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
WHEREAS the decades-long civil war in the Sudan has already taken 2,000,000 lives and there is an ongoing campaign of...
Resolution in Solidarity with the New Orleans Jewish Community Following Hurricane Katrina
Whereas the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing flood that breached the floodwalls and the levee system of New Orleans has become one of the United States’ worst disasters ever;
Whereas Jews have lived in and...
Resolution on Civil Liberties in the United States
Whereas the most treasured values of Americans as enshrined in the laws and Constitution of the United States are under attack;
Whereas among the most revered of these is America’s regard for civil rights and civil...