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Mark Popovsky, "Choosing Our Children’s Genes:...
Resolution on Interfaith Relations
WHEREAS we are bidden שלום דרכי מפני (for ways of peace) and הבריות שלום מפני (for peace among all creatures) and איבה מפני (to avoid hatred) and ה׳ חילול מפני (to avoid disgrace) and העולם תקון מפני (for improving the world) to be concerned...
Resolution In Support of Faith in Action Project
Background: Faith in Action is a program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It helps fund and provides support for interfaith community groups and synagogues of various movements to train volunteers to provide health-related services to...
How Inclusive is Judaism?
September 11, 2013
By Mark GreenspanParashat Va-yishlah, Genesis 32:4-36:43"Individuals with Disabilities" by Edward M. Friedman (pp. 831) in The Observant LifeDownload the Study...
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 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...
Resolution on Inclusion and Belonging of Jews of Color
March 21, 2024
Submitted by the Racial Justice Subcommittee of the Social Justice Commission
Whereas the fight to end racism has long been...
Resolution Concerning the Rotem Conversion Bill in Israel
June 17, 2011
Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly passed resolutions in 1990, 2001, 2007 and 2009 in support of conversions of those committed to Jewish life in accordance with halakhah in the State of Israel from all main streams of Judaism;
Whereas a bill...