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You Shall Strengthen Them: A Rabbinic Letter on the Poor
You Shall Strengthen Them: A Rabbinic Letter on the Poor, was derived from earlier published essays
Purim Song Sheet
This 1-page song sheet, prepared by Yossi Hoffman, contains the text, transliteration, and translation of popular songs for Purim.
Al Ha-nissim
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A
Lighting the Hanukkah Candles: Blessings & Songs
Text, translation, and transliteration of the blessings and popular songs to accompany the lighting
בדיקת חמץ: The Search for Hameitz
This one-page sheet includes text, instructions, and transliteration for the ritual of searching for hameitz and the destruction of hameitz.
Al Ha-nissim for Yom Ha-atzmaut
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.
Leveling the Playing Field of Religious Struggle
By Julie Schonfeld
Originally posted in The Jerusalem Post
These have been a few puzzling days as a large platform now referred to as “Ezrat Yisrael” appeared with short notice and some confusion at Robinson’s Arch, the area at...
Keep the Ban on Pulpit Politics
By Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy and Julie Schonfeld
Originally posted in The Hill
Earlier this month, the Commission on Accountability and Policy for Religious Organizations released a report recommending that the government lift the ban...
Milestones in the Struggle for Egalitarian Prayer at the Kotel and the Robinson’s Arch Initiative
The following timeline was put together by the Masorti Movement in Israel:
Since 1980, Egalitarian Masorti/Conservative minyanim have gathered and davenned without interruption in the upper Kotel plaza (on the edge of the...
The Faith Community's Role in Ending Modern-Day Slavery
By Julie Schonfeld
Modern-day slavery is a high-profit and low-risk endeavor that allows criminals, through their cruel enslavement of innocent people, to profit by $32 billion per year.
Last spring, The President's Advisory...
Resources for the High Holidays
As Jewish communities around the world gather to celebrate the new year, we hope you enjoy this collection of thought and inspiration for the High Holidays.
These articles, which draw upon Jewish tradition in the context of...
Looking Towards 5774
By Gerry Skolnik
As an unrepentant (if older and wiser) child of the sixties, I have always considered it one of the sacred tasks of parenting to insure that my children -- all four of them -- know and appreciate the music that shaped my...
White House Briefing on Peace Process
By Julie Schonfeld
Last week I attended a small meeting with a number of Jewish communal representatives with Secretary of State John Kerry and the President's National Security Advisor Ambassador Susan Rice, who gave an update on...
Rabbis Call with Ambassador Michael Oren
We invite you to join Ambassador Michael Oren for a conversation with rabbis throughout the United States. Ambassador Oren will reflect on this past year and look to challenges and opportunities facing Israel and the American Jewish community in the...
Body Image: What are We Ashamed of?
By Mark Greenspan
Parashat B’reishit, Genesis 1:1-6:8
"Public Appearance and Behavior" by Gordon Tucker (pp. 373) in The Observant Life
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Chicago Conversion Bet Din Not Endorsed by the RA
The Rabbinical Assembly, the international membership association of Conservative/Masorti rabbis has received numerous queries regarding an organization known as the “Chicago Conversion Beit Din.” The Chicago Conversion Beit Din, one of whose...