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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.
The Eternal Journey: Meditations on the Jewish Year
Jonathan Wittenberg
ISBN: 0-916219-25-9
Pages: 300
"All people seek the secret of their own continuity," writes Jonathan Wittenberg. "The light of where we come from shines into the uncertainty of who we are.
Mindful Jewish Living: Compassionate Practice
Jonathan P. Slater
HC ISBN: 0-916219-23-2
PPB ISBN: 978-0-916219-23-9
Pages: 300
The practice of mindfulness is defined as "the capacity to see clearly, with calm and awakened mind and heart, the truth...
A Responsible Life The Spiritual Path of Mussar
Ira F. Stone
ISBN: 0-916219-31-3
Pages: 320
“Love your neighbor” is the central obligation of Jewish life. Mussar, a late 19th century Jewish renewal movement, focused on this precept as a means of...
The Unfolding Tradition: Philosophies of Jewish Law
Elliot N. Dorff
ISBN: 0-916219-29-1
Pages: 300
The Unfolding Tradition: Philosophies of Jewish Law analyzes the biblical and rabbinic roots of Jewish law as interpreted by leading rabbis of the Conservative...
About Aviv Press
Aviv Press, was an imprint of the Rabbinical Assembly, that published high quality Jewish books that are geared for readers of all faiths and denominations wishing to engage in an intellectually dynamic consideration of Jewish texts and...
A Prayer for the Victims of the Attack at the Sikh Temple
נַעַמְדָה יָחַדLet Us Stand Up Together*
by Naomi Levy, spiritual leader of Nashuva
We stand together in grief
For the innocent victims
Of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin
Who perished in their house of prayer.
May their memories be...
Rabbinical Assembly Expresses Condolences to Sikh Community
NEW YORK – In response to Sunday’s tragic shooting at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisc., near Milwaukee, Julie Schonfeld released the following statement:
A week ago on Tishah B’av, the Jewish...
Creating the Ambience of Shabbat
Adapted from the chapter on Shabbat by Michael Katz and Gershon Schwartz, z”l, in The Observant Life
Among Ashkenazic Jews, even those who do not speak Yiddish, the term shabbosdik is often used to describe activities...
1972-2012: A Moment of Silence
The International Olympic Committee has refused appeals to observe a minute of silence in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes, trainers and judges, who were murdered at the Munich Olympics forty years ago.
We are asking our colleagues...