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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.
Social Justice
This section includes resources for rabbinic activism on social justice causes, including sections on individual topics. All of the RA’s stances on social justice causes are determined by resolutions passed at our annual convention, a full...
Human Rights
As far back as 1950, the Rabbinical Assembly called upon the United States to ratify the UN Genocide Convention. The Convention was not ratified by the US until 1988. The RA reiterated this position in resolutions in 1954, 1963, 1965,...
Resolutions
Each year the Rabbinical Assembly passes a number of resolutions on pressing matters impacting the countries and regions where we live, the State of Israel and the future of our shared world. Passing the resolutions allows the RA to take positions...
Economic Justice
Civilized societies have confronted poverty for millennia. Jews, comprising one of the olderst societies in the world, have developed an ideology and a code of law and ethics affirming that it is an obligation of both the individual and the...
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 by Rabbi Elliot Dorff, which became the main substance of this pamphlet. Rabbis Lee Paskind and Debra Orenstein edited Rabbi Dorff's manuscript and...
Resolutions
Each year the Rabbinical Assembly passes a number of resolutions on pressing matters impacting the countries and regions where we live, the State of Israel and the future of our shared world. Passing the resolutions allows the RA to take positions...
Hodesh Tov - Sh'vat
"How to Create a Holocaust Memorial Museum"by Michael Berenbaum, director of the Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics, and Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish...
Hodesh Tov - Nisan
"New Insights from the Mishnah"by Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture at The Jewish Theological SeminaryDownload the Source SheetNote: this podcast is a section of the keynote address to be delivered by...
Hodesh Tov - Elul
"Prayerbook Commentaries"by Reuven Hammer, founding director, Schechter Institute; past president, Rabbinical...