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Additional Piyyutim for Use on the Yamim Noraim
Although Mahzor Lev Shalem contains many more piyyutim than was true of the previous RA mahzor, several rabbis, cantors, and lay leaders have requested three additional piyyutim.
Home Observances: Shabbat
One-page sheets containing Shabbat rituals and blessings for the home.
Aviv Press Books Now Available as E-Books
February 4, 2013
Our Aviv Press books are now available as e-books in both Nook and Kindle versions. In addition, some Aviv Press titles are on sale in the print edition. Hard copies of these books are available until after Pesah.Browse Aviv Press...
Convention 2013: Limmud
February 5, 2013
The following teachers will be presenting at our convention this year (tentative, subject to change):Doron Bar | Dean, Land of Israel Studies, Schechter Institute Land of Israel Studies: "Between the Western Wall and Mount Herzl: Jewish and...
RA Raises Concerns About New Arrests at Western Wall
February 11, 2013
Two Conservative rabbis among those arrestedNEW YORK – Following today’s arrest of 10 women praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Julie Schonfeld renewed her call for a quick solution that respects religious pluralism and women’s equality.
RA and Jewish Lights Publishing Announce New Joint Publishing Imprint
February 21, 2013
NEW YORK – The Rabbinical Assembly and Jewish Lights, a leading publisher of books and LifeLights™ pastoral care resources that reflect the Jewish wisdom tradition for people of all faiths and all backgrounds, announced the establishment of a new...
Convention 2013: Schedule
March 5, 2013
The tentative schedule is as follows (subject to change):Tuesday afternoon, June 25: Minhah for the Seventeenth of Tammuz (6 PM), limmud with Tamar Elad-Appelbaum: "How Will We Sing Songs of Zion in the Land of Zion" (7 PM), ma’ariv featuring...
Why Do We Sing the Song of Songs on Passover?
March 6, 2013
by Benjamin Edidin Scolnic | Published in CJ Journal, Vol. 48 No. 4, Summer 1996. Download the...
Reflections on Redemption, National and Personal
March 18, 2013
By Gerry Skolnik Every year, as we prepare to celebrate the festival of Passover, I find myself struggling with the same issue. More than any other Jewish holiday, Passover lends itself to “universalization.” The theme of “from enslavement to...
Resources for Passover and Shavuot
March 18, 2013
We hope you enjoy this collection of thought and inspiration for Passover and Shavuot. As Jewish communities around the world gather to sit at their seider tables this year, we are thankful for the freedoms we experience every day, from ...
A Message from Paul Plotkin of the CJLS Kashrut Subcommittee
March 19, 2013
Dear Colleagues,The most recent issue of Kolot printed a brief summary of Rabbi Golinkin's tshuvah for the Vaad Halacha of Israel permitting kitniyot.It has led to many congregants believing that the Conservative Movement in the diaspora has...
Tradition and Change
March 20, 2013
By Elliot Salo Schoenberg
My father's yahrzeit is the week before Passover. He is gone now 26 years. He always led the seder wearing the same white and blue kippah. He loved eating boiled potatoes for karpas. He would read...