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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...
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...
Resolution on the Current Economic Crisis
“These are the deeds that yield immediate fruit and continue to yield fruit in the world to come: honoring parents, doing deeds of lovingkindness, making peace between one person and another and the study of Torah is the most basic of them...
Resolution in Support of Increasing the Jewish Population and Strengthening Jewish Families
Whereas God’s promise to multiply the Nation of Israel “as the dust of the earth” and “the stars in the sky” has yet to be fulfilled, as the past several decades has seen the Jewish population decline;
Whereas the Jewish People, relative to its...
Resolution on Poverty in the United States
Whereas Jewish tradition commands us to “open your hand [to the poor person] and provide sufficient for the need” (Deut. 15:8), and reminds us that “just as God clothed the naked- so too must you supply clothes for the naked [poor]” (Talmud B.
Resolution on Global Poverty
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly is comprised of colleagues who care deeply about the state of the world, tikkun olam and mishpetei tzedek, the laws of justice and righteousness as prescribed by the Torah and Prophets of Israel;
Whereas members of...
Resolution on Social Security
Background:
The Social Security system is funded primarily from payroll tax deductions by employees and their employers. The Social Security Trust Fund, held in United States Treasury bonds, provides interest to cover a shortfall in any...
Omnibus Resolution on Social Issues
Background:
We, members of the Rabbinical Assembly, are heirs to traditions that ingrain in us an “aggressive attitude toward improving life,” exemplified in Pirkei Avot 2:20-1 “Rabbi Tarfon taught: The day is short, the task is great. You are not...
Resolution On Assistance to Needy Families
Whereas the Torah (Deut. 15:8) enjoins us to provide for the basic needs of the poor (de mahsoro);
Whereas Jewish tradition has always valued work for bringing dignity to the worker, as the Talmud (Nedarim 49b) says, “Great is work, for it honors...
Resolution in Support of International Debt Relief
WHEREAS the world’s poorest nations bear a crushing debt of more than $2 trillion borrowed from the world’s richest nations, from multilateral organizations and from private banks in the richest countries; and
WHEREAS these poor nations’ debt...