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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.
A Prayer for Victims of a Hurricane
August 31, 2017
by Rabbi Naomi Levy, spiritual leader of Nashuva in Los Angeles, CA.
Are You watching, God?
Have You seen the innocent swept away?
Are You listening God?
Have You heard their cries?
Be with them, God.
Be their strength...
After the Storm: A Prayer to Choose Life
September 7, 2017
by Rabbi David Seidenberg with Aharon Varady, Baruch Sienna, and others assisting
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Conservative Movement Protests Kotel and Conversion Setbacks
September 7, 2017
This letter, signed by approximately 400 Conservative Movement institutions, petitions the Prime Minister to urgently address the damage to Israel/Diaspora relations by the Kotel deal freeze and pending conversion legislation that will for the first...
Conservative Jews Deplore Freeze in Creating Mixed-Area Prayer Space at Western Wall
June 26, 2017
NEW YORK — Following Sunday’s announcement that the Israeli government had frozen a plan to create an egalitarian prayer section of Jersualem’s Western Wall, the Conservative/Masorti movement, as represented by the Rabbinical Assembly, The United...
Statement on "Blacklist" of Israel Rabbanut
July 11, 2017
The Rabbinical Assembly, in noting its many colleagues among the 160 rabbis blacklisted by the Chief Rabbinate of the State of Israel, who are deemed ineligible to authenticate the Jewishness of their congregants and community members, proudly...
A Prayer in Response to the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
March 18, 2011
Dear God, Many, many images of God have been lost in earthquake and fire and mighty waters just yesterday. And so we turn to You, Adonai, and we ask for Your strength and comfort. We open our hearts one to the other as brothers and...
A Prayer for Tucson
January 18, 2011
On this Shabbat Shira, the Sabbath of Song,We sing to God a song of griefFor innocent victimsCut down too soon. May their memories be a blessing,May their lights shine brightly upon us.Gather them into Your eternal shelter, God,Your shelter of...
A Prayer for the Fogel Family as they Rise from Shivah
March 18, 2011
Not one of us can feel your pain. Not one of us knows what it means to have our heart shattered as yours. Your grief only point out to us how empty words can be in the face of tragedy and sorrow. The tears of our pain are but a shadow of your...
Resolution on the Support of Science and Science-based Policy in Government
February 28, 2017
How great are Your works, O Lord, Your designs are very deep;
The brute does not know nor does the fool understand this. (Psalm 92)
Whereas the Jewish tradition teaches that “the seal of the Holy Blessed One, is truth.” (BT Yoma 69b) and has...
Resolution on Immigration to the United States
February 28, 2017
Whereas Torah teaches: You shall not turn over to his master a slave who seeks refuge with you from his master. He shall live with you in any place he may choose among the settlements in your midst, wherever he pleases; you must not ill-treat him...