By Alan Lucas
Adapted from The Observant Life

Siddur Sim Shalom for Shabbat, Festivals, and Weekdays incorporated a new Al Ha-nissim prayer, which was modeled on the versions recited at Hanukkah and on Purim into the Amidah and Birkat Ha-mazon. This version was composed by Gershon Hadas, Jules Harlow, and Professor Hillel Bavli.

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By Gerson Cohen | Published in CJ Journal, Vol. 27 No. 3, Spring 1973.

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Published in CJ Journal, Vol. 11 No. 3, Spring 1957.

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The Israel Action Network (IAN), a project of the Jewish Federations of North America in partnership with the Jewish Council of Public Affairs, is coordinating a North American response to the Palestinian Authority leadership’s decision to pursue a policy that has become known as Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). While the exact course of their actions is not known, it may include seeking full membership or some form of enhanced status in the U.N. during the General Assembly in late September. UDI threatens to undermine the long-standing consensus of reaching a two states for two peoples outcome based on direct bilateral negotiations; instead it uses the UN as a vehicle to isolate and place diplomatic pressure on Israel.

The Rabbinical Assembly, having recently released a resolution on UDI, is partnering with the IAN in this important effort.

Israel's Place as a Democratic State in the Middle East and at Home -
The Place of Religious Pluralism
The Hon. Tzipi Livni, Head of Kadima Party
Introduction: The Hon. Oscar Goodman, Mayor, Las Vegas
Welcome: Mitchell Ogron, president, Temple Beth Sholom
Greetings: Elliot Karp, president & CEO, Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, NV; Rabbi Felipe Goodman, Temple Beth Sholom; Rabbi Gilah Dror, Rodef Sholom Temple, Hampton, VA; president, Rabbinical Assembly
Presented at RA Convention 2011