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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.
Curriculum-Planning and Programming for Lifelong Learning
How to build an integrated curriculum across age groups and segments of the synagogue community.
Presented February 17, 2011 by Rabbi Shelly Kniaz, Director of Life Long Learning, Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, Woodlciff Lake...
Supervision of Faculty and Engaging New Personnel
How to hold faculty responsible for their work.
Presented in March, 2011 by Susan Werk, Synagogue Educator, Congregation Agudath Israel, Caldwell,...
Goldstone Reconsiders
April 8, 2011
Last week, Judge Richard Goldstone who authored the Goldstone Report on the 2008-2009 Gaza war, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published last Friday that “if I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different...
Resolution in Support of Darfur and South Sudan Independence
April 6, 2011
“There is a real danger that the media, United States Government and international community will lose focus in the weeks and months ahead. During this critical time, we need your...
Resolution in Support of Equal Rights and Inclusion for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender (GLBT) Persons
April 6, 2011
Preamble:
“Great is human dignity, since it overrides a negative precept of the Torah.” (Brakhot 19b)
In 1990, the Rabbinical Assembly passed a resolution entitled “Gay and Lesbian Jews,” which called us...
Resolution on High Capacity Ammunition Magazines
April 6, 2011
Background:
The “Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Act” was introduced in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in January, 2011, seeking to limit high capacity firearm magazines, with the...
Hodesh Tov - Nisan
"The Western Wall after the Six Day War"
by Dr. Doron Bar, Senior Lecturer of Land of Israel Studies, Schechter Institute for Jewish...
Media Coverage of Convention 2011
April 4, 2011
Media coverage of the Rabbinical Assembly Convention 2011:
At Conservative rabbis’ confab, it’s not about the organization but the future, JTA- March, 29, 2001Conservative Rabbis Look Down The Road, Jewish Week- March 29, 2011 Talking to...
A Prayer After an Attack on our People
March 25, 2011
אב הרחמים
God of mercy
מחזק ידי רופאי הפיגועים
Strengthen those who heal the wounded
עוזר לשומרים
Welcome to the New Rabbinical Assembly Website
March 22, 2011
We are proud to launch the new face of rabbinicalassembly.org.
This new site will help us serve you. It paves the way for improved organization of our content and a better experience for our users.
We have many new features and...