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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.
Resolution in Support of Access to Lifelong Jewish Learning for Jews with Disabilities
April 24, 2014
Whereas a human being mints many coins from the same mold and they are all identical, but the Holy Blessed One strikes us all from the mold of the first human and each one of us is unique (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5) and
Whereas the Torah states that...
Resolution on the Labeling of Food Containing Genetically Modified Organisms
April 24, 2014
Whereas Jewish tradition has the tradition of sanctifying ourselves through food with blessings, teachings and the scrupulous observance of kashrut and
Whereas the thrust of rabbinic teachings about kashrut and gneyvat da’at (deception)...
Resolution on Sensible Gun Control in the United States
April 24, 2014
Whereas Jewish tradition teaches the value of pikuah nefesh - saving a life - and that if we save a life, it's as if we have saved the entire world and
Whereas Jewish tradition teaches “And for every stumbling block that threatens lives, one...
Resolution on Voting Rights in the United States
April 24, 2014
Whereas the Torah recognizes the need for a judicial process without bias as fundamental to the functioning of society, as it is written “you shall not render an unfair decision” (Leviticus 19:15) and
Whereas the Talmud acknowledges the role the...
Resolution on Increasing Minimum Wage and Other Supports for Low-Income Families
April 24, 2014
Whereas the Torah commands us to be concerned for fair treatment of low-wage earners: “You shall not oppress a needy and destitute laborer…you must pay him his wages on the same day…for he is needy and urgently depends on it” (Deuteronomy 24:14-15;...
Resolution on Conversion, Intermarriage & Patrilineal Jews
April 24, 2014
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly approved a Resolution on Keruv Programming in 1991, resolving that “educational and training programs be established at all levels to help synagogue professionals and lay leaders learn how to interact constructively...
Proclamation on the Founding of the Zacharias Frankel School in Berlin and the Yeshiva in Santiago, Chile
April 24, 2014
Whereas the efforts of Masorti Olami to build, renew and strengthen Jewish life in existing and developing communities throughout the world are essential to supporting and expanding the Conservative/Masorti movement and
Whereas over 135 kehillot...
Rabbinical Assembly to Support J Street membership in Conference of Presidents
April 29, 2014
In advance of a vote of members of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations that will determine whether the organization J Street will be granted membership, Rabbinical Assembly President Rabbi Gerald Skolnik and Executive Vice...
Fear and exclusion of J Street is misguided and destructive
May 2, 2014
By Julie Schonfeld
Originally posted on Haaretz
As Israel and the Jewish community worldwide face an increasingly unstable Mideast, an Iran with nuclear ambitions and a stalled peace process, it is not surprising that there will be...
Actually, J Street Won
May 4, 2014
By Gerald Skolnik
Originally posted on The Jewish Week
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you win, but really lose. And then other times you lose, but really win.
On the face of it, J Street lost this...