Resolutions 2000

WHEREAS the needs of the Conservative Movement and especially of our youth are of utmost concerns to all Conservative Jews; and WHEREAS staffing for our youth programs at the various Ramah camps and USY kinusim, conventions and encampments has...

WHEREAS the Government of Ontario is constitutionally mandated to provide for the education of every child in Ontario; and WHEREAS the Government of Ontario currently funds the Roman Catholic Separate School system in keeping with the...

WHEREAS almost six years have passed since the AMIA Bombing in Buenos Aires, an aggression against the Jewish community which resulted in the deaths of 86 people; and WHEREAS the Argentine Government has been lax in investigation, trial and...

WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly passed a resolution "On Educating Conservative Jews Regarding Organ Donations" at its May 1996 convention; and WHEREAS every day as many as 200 people in the United States join the list of those awaiting organ...

WHEREAS the world’s poorest nations bear a crushing debt of more than $2 trillion borrowed from the world’s richest nations, from multilateral organizations and from private banks in the richest countries; and WHEREAS these poor nations’ debt...

WHEREAS Jews have served faithfully in the military, participating in the support and defense of the United States; and WHEREAS Jewish members of the armed forces of the United States serve their country in distant locations, helping to bring...

WHEREAS the Rabbinical Assembly has consistently sought to uphold the separation of religion and state in the United States; and WHEREAS prayers recited over public address systems at public school sporting events such as football games have been...

WHEREAS the prophetic call for all nations to "beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks" (Isaiah 2:4) demands an ongoing effort on behalf of every nation today to stop nuclear proliferation; and WHEREAS in the second...

Background: In July, 1999 The House of Representatives narrowly passed a Republican tax cut bill which would cut personal income tax rates, reduce capital gains taxes, eliminate federal estate taxes on very large estates, increase the marital...

WHEREAS the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" (HR 2436/SR 1382) under consideration in the United States Congress treats the mother as a separate person from the fetus, in essence raising the status of the fetus to that of a person for law...