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By Diana Denza, Communications Specialist Our opening Limmud sessions and professional workshops covered an array of important topics, including love and inclusion as a halakhic value, similarities and differences between Canadian and...

By Diana Denza, Communications Specialist Convention 2019 opened with a reception and creative workshops, which included Israeli folk singing, Jewish meditation, and an improv session. After a welcome by Convention Co-Chairs Rabbi...

By Kendell Pinkney When the email landed in my inbox, I groaned. “We would like to commemorate Black History Month, and your name came up as someone with a perspective that members of the RA would greatly appreciate hearing. Would you...

Last week, the Rabbinical Assembly hosted Interview Week for graduating students from the Conservative Movement’s United States seminaries and it was a smashing success. The event took place at American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California,...

by Amy Bardack I was a half-mile away at Congregation Beth Shalom when I heard about the shooting at Tree of Life. As the director of Jewish life and learning at the Jewish Federation here in Pittsburgh, I was part of the immediate response to...

On the evening of March 25, 1968, ten days before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., zikhrono livrakhah, appeared at the sixty-eighth annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly. In anticipation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on...

The Rabbinical Assembly, the international membership organization of Conservative rabbis is hiring a Publications Director. Responsibilities: Strategy: Create a business model for the department including establishing a strategic...

By Rabbi Michael Friedland, Chair, Rabbinical Assembly Convention 2018 Day three began with Brad Artson, Dean’s Chair of the Ziegler Rabbinical School, reminding us to consider what is our purpose as Conservative Jews and Conservative rabbis.

By Rabbi Michael Friedland, Chair, Rabbinical Assembly Convention 2018 Our opening panel featured innovative rabbis, most serving in the Chicago area. Robin Damsky, President of the Chicago RA, created In the Gardens, a program that...

By Rabbi Michael Friedland, Chair, Rabbinical Assembly Convention 2018 The Convention opened with several outstanding Limmud sessions from local and Masorti scholars. Thank you Annie Tucker and Paul Kerbel for organizing our wonderful...