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Keys to Running a Successful Event
By Rabbi Elliot Salo Schoenberg and Daniel Schoenberg
With a bit more planning, you can make your event stand out. Here’s how:
Definition: Be deliberate about what type of event you’re planning.
A program is a low energy event with the...
No Mothers Day for Those Enslaved
By Julie Schonfeld
Originially posted in Huffington Post
There will be no flowers for them this Sunday, no handwritten cards on construction paper, no lunch, no love. Thousands of women and girls are enslaved in sex trafficking in the United...
Update from last week's CJLS meeting
The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards met on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week and discussed 9 papers on a variety of issues:
Three teshuvot were passed:
Letters of Recommendation by Elliot Dorff and Marc Gary
This teshuvah...
Letter to Ambassador Rice in advance of her upcoming visit to Israel
Dear Ambassador Rice,
As you prepare for your upcoming trip to Israel in the coming days, I would like to wish you a nesiyah tovah, a good journey, on behalf of the Rabbinical Assembly. It is auspicious that your journey coincides with Yom...
Actually, J Street Won
By Gerald Skolnik
Originally posted on The Jewish Week
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you win, but really lose. And then other times you lose, but really win.
On the face of it, J Street lost this...
Fear and exclusion of J Street is misguided and destructive
By Julie Schonfeld
Originally posted on Haaretz
As Israel and the Jewish community worldwide face an increasingly unstable Mideast, an Iran with nuclear ambitions and a stalled peace process, it is not surprising that there will be...
20 Years of Saying Goodbye
10 Lessons We Have Learned from 20 Years of Transition Training
by Rabbi Elliot Schoenberg
Eit Ratzon is the Rabbinical Assembly’s annual transition seminar. When we convene on June 10 it will be the 21st time we will be bringing...
On the rights of non-Orthodox rabbis, where's the outrage?
By Julie Schonfeld
Originally posted on JTA, the Forward, and Times of Israel
The good news is in: Rabbi Avi Weiss’ conversions will be accepted in Israel.
I am glad to see that the religious integrity and leadership of Rabbi Weiss...
Update on The Joint Commission on Rabbinical Placement
The sacred work of rabbinic placement, the task of helping RA colleagues find meaningful and fulfilling work in the diverse areas of the rabbinate, goes into high gear in the months of December and January. In addition to fine opportunities at...