Archive 2016

French Translation NEW YORK — Following Thursday evening’s attack in Nice, France, that left at least 80 dead and countless others injured, the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association for Conservative/Masorti rabbis, released the...

The following letter was sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the negotiating team supporting implementation of the agreement to create an egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel. The signers included the Masorti Movement, Union for Reform...

The Rabbinical Assembly is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Elie Wiesel. A Holocaust survivor, best-selling author and Nobel laureate, Wiesel was the voice of our collective moral conscience. We join the rest of the world in mourning one...

The Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the association for Conservative/Masorti rabbis, the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism (USCJ) and the Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel look forward to the implementation of the Kotel agreement that...

NEW YORK – The Rabbinical Assembly, the international association for Conservative/Masorti rabbis; released the following statement regarding proposed amendment 4720 to the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Bill...

NEW YORK – Early Sunday, a terrorist stormed a crowded nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and went on a shooting rampage, which left 49 people dead and 53 wounded— the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. In response to this weekend’s mass shooting, the...

NEW YORK — In light of continued discrimination against individuals who are transgender or gender non-conforming, the world’s Conservative and Masorti rabbis for the first time have passed a stand-alone resolution affirming the rights of such...

The following statement was released last night, June 1, 2016. Today, a delegation of senior North American Jewish leaders, representing the Jewish Federations of North America, the Union for Reform Judaism, the Israel Movement for Progressive...