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| Â | Rabbinical Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), the Rabbinical Assembly (RA) is the official, international body of Conservative rabbis, with some 1400 members. | | | When more than one position is validated, each congregational rabbi functions as the mara de-atra (local authority in Jewish law), adopting for their congregation the position he or she considers most compelling. | | | The Rabbinical Assembly of Israel (Israeli arm of the RA) has its own decision making body, the Va'ad Halacha. |
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| Â | 4Reference Halakha |
| | Unlike secular precedent based systems, halakha is a religious system, whose axiom is that Jewish law represents the will of God. | | | Judaism has always held that gentiles are obligated only to follow the seven Noahide laws; these are laws that the oral law derives from the covenant God made with Noah after the flood, which apply to all descendants of Noah, i.e. | | | Those in liberal and classical wing of Reform believe that in this day and era most Jewish religious rituals are no longer necessary, and many hold that following most Jewish laws are actually counter-productive. |
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| Â | l e a r n @ j t s DID YOU KNOW? Responsa: Employing an Intermarried Jew |
| | Yet, as indicated earlier, the Rabbinical Assembly (as well as other Jewish organizations in North America) has come to the conclusion that the issue of inmarriage is so vital for Jewish survival that it must be given special emphasis. | | | Marrying outside of the faith is considered tantamount to a rupture with the Jewish community, since the offspring of mixed marriages are usually weaned away from the Jewish religion" (CJLS Report, Rabbinical Assembly Proceedings, 1941 - 44, pp. | | | Our communal agencies and institutions must help by every means at their command, educational, religious, social and recreational, to deepen Jewish loyalties, develop pride in Judaism, and provide the milieu in which young Jews, of both sexes, shall have opportunities for social intermingling. |
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http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/diduknow/responsa/hatesh_intermar.shtml
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| Â | l e a r n @ j t s READING OPPORTUNITIES Conservative Judaism Chap 6 Part 3 |
| | Published in 1979, this comprehensive survey of Jewish religious practice originated as a course which Rabbi Klein, then serving a congregation in Buffalo, was invited to teach in the Seminary's Rabbinical School. | | | That year's Rabbinical Assembly convention devoted an entire session to the topic "Towards a Philosophy of Conservative Judaism"--it fills 80 pages of the Proceedings --which featured three papers on the Movement's approach to Jewish law. | | | The rabbi remains, to use the traditional talmudic term, Mara d'Atra, literally, "Master of the Place," or ultimate authority in religious matters for the congregation. |
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http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/reading/bookexc/gillman_conservativej/chap6/part3.shtml
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| Â | Bibliography of Sexual and Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community |
| | Jewish Theological Seminary of America, "Know Whom You Put To Shame, For In The Likeness of God is (S)he Made," A High Holy Day Message, 5753. | | | This also appeared as "Rabbinic Misconduct; Sexual Exploitation by some Spiritual Leaders Raises the Question: Are there really rules or is it an old boys network," Los Angeles Jewish Journal, Oct. 18, 1996, p. | | | Berner, Leila Gal, "Our Silent Seasons" a ceremony of healing from sexual abuse, in Lifecycles: Jewish Women on Life Passages and Personal Milestones by Debra Orenstein, editor, Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights, 1994, pp. |
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http://www.mincava.umn.edu/bibs/jewish.htm
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| Â | FORWARD : Forward 50 |
| | Name any Jewish communal controversy during the past year and the president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and de facto leader of Reform Judaism seemed to be at the center of it. | | | These projects are important both for what they mean for the progress of Jewish women and for the fact that they draw into Jewish communal life many accomplished Jewish women who have been distant from it. | | | Critics say her definitions of "Jewish" literature are too narrow, excluding, for example, young writers who in her view fail to draw on the Yiddishist traditions that she reveres or who "treat Jewishness as whatever they wish it to be." Ms. |
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http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.11.09/forwardfifty.html
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| Â | Animals and "Standing to Sue" (Part I) |
| | The second, subdivision (b), provides for an alternative method— slaughter 'in accordance with the ritual requirements of the Jewish faith or any other religious faith' without making any express reference to the shackling or hoisting or any preslaughter handling procedure. | | | The intervenors have made a persuasive showing that Jewish ritual slaughter, as a fundamental aspect of Jewish religious practice, was historically related to considerations of humaneness in times when such concerns were practically non- existent. | | | Read in the context of the entire statute, they have a secular purpose; their principal or primary effect is to provide for humane slaughter; and they do not foster excessive government entanglement with religion. |
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| Â | USCJ: Standards for Congregational Practices |
| | In the Jewish tradition, the raising of funds by the congregation is in itself an act of sanctity and must, therefore, have the same spiritual quality as the ends to which the funds are to be employed. | | | The spiritual leader of the congregation, whether or not a member of the Rabbinical Assembly, shall be bound by the rules, regulations, policies and standards established by the Rabbinical Assembly as they apply to these Standards, as a matter of contractual obligation with the congregation. | | | Weddings are sacred religious ceremonies and care shall be exercised not only during the ceremony, but in connection with any function associated with the wedding, to ensure that the spirit of Jewish law will not be violated. |
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| Â | Chelm.org's Kashrut Class - Complete Download |
| | Committee set up by the Conservative RA to interpret and revise Rabbinic Law and tradition. | | | This fat was reserved for the sacrifice in the Temple. | | | There are 4 major sources of law in the Jewish religion |
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| Â | Proceedings of the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards, 1927-1960 - GOLINKIN,DAVID (ED.) |
| | At the same time, Conservative Jews find it repugnant to suggest that anyone should be coerced into following religious practices. | | | Read Golinkin's collection to discover more of the conservative belief system. | | | Hundreds of the world's finest antiquarian and used booksellers offer their books on Antiqbook. |
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http://antiqbook.com/boox/she/000000000009561.shtml
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| Â | Religion, Television & the Info. Superhwy - Waymark Press - Robert Lewis Shayon |
| | She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Religion and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. | | | DIANA L. Diana L. Eck is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University where she is also Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Faculty of Divinity. | | | She received her B.A. from Smith College (1967) in Religion, her M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1968), in South Asian History and her Ph.D. from Harvard University (1976) in the Comparative Study of Religion. |
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| Â | Duquesne University McAnulty College & Graduate School of Liberal Arts |
| | "Universal Being and Ethical Particularity in the Hebrew Bible: A Jewish Response to Voegelin's Israel and Revelation." Journal of Religion 79 (1999): 19-53. | | | "Comment on 'Through Her I Too Shall Bear A Child: Birth Surrogates in Jewish Law.' " Journal of Religious Ethics 27 (1999): 361-66. | | | Graduate Studies in Jewish Philosophy, Bible, and Midrash |
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http://www.liberalarts.duq.edu/healthcareethics/facMacklercv.html
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| Â | Jewish Women in the Minyan |
| | The Conservative Movement has made the possibility of egalitarian participation in all aspects of synagogue and ritual life; the only moment when it is not egalitarian is when the Rabbi of the congregation rules otherwise, for the Rabbi is the final authority for each synagogue. | | | About > Religion & Spirituality > Judaism > Ask the Rabbi Q&A > Conservative Judaism FAQ > Prayers, Worship, Rituals > Jewish Women in the Minyan | | | ABC's of Judaism Ask the Rabbi Q&A Beliefs, Ideas, Philosophy Blessings, Prayers Branches of Judaism Conversion to Judaism History, Genealogy Holidays, Sabbath Jewish Culture Israel Jewish Education Jewish Food Recipes Jewish Events, Hebrew Names Observance, Practices Torah, Talmud |
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http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_c/bl_women_minyan.htm
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| Â | Books Received in The Jewish Studies Library, October, 1998, List 3 |
| | Di froyen : conference proceedings : women and Yiddish, tribute to the past, directions for the future / New York : National Council of Jewish Women, New York Section, Jewish Women's Resource Center, 1997. | | | A biblical people in the Bible belt : the Jewish community of Memphis, Tennessee,1840s-1960s / Selma S. Lewis / Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c1998. | | | Proceedings of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative Movement / [New York, N.Y.] : Rabbinical Assembly, 1988-. |
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http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/jdc/103198.html
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| Â | MyJewishLearning.com - Daily Life: Tattooing in Jewish Law |
| | The prohibition of tattooing is found in the Torah: "You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves: I am the Lord" (Leviticus 19:28). | | | Copies of the book may be ordered from the United Synagogue Book Service, www.uscj.org, | | | But, however distasteful we may find the practice there is no basis for restricting burial to Jews who violate this prohibition or even limiting their participation in synagogue ritual. |
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http://www.myjewishlearning.com/daily_life/TheBody/Adorning_the_Body/Tattoo.htm
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| | For more on this and related topics, see Elliot N. Dorff, Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics. | | | He is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, for which he serves as Chair of the Subcommittee on Bioethics, and has been ethicist for the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. | | | Only through effective and accessible health care, both preventive and curative, can we fulfill our fiduciary responsibility to God to safeguard our bodies. |
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| Â | Elliot N. Dorff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dorff is an expert in the philosophy of Conservative Judaism, Bioethics, and acknowledged within the Conservative community as an expert decisor of Jewish law. | | | Dorff is a prolific member of the Rabbinical Assembly 's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and has written many responsa (opinion papers and legal rulings) on many aspects of Jewish law and philosophy. | | | University of Judaism in California, author, and a bio-ethicist. |
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| Â | Judaism FAQs |
| | Whereas, Judaism does not believe that personhood and human rights begin with conception (the premise that personhood begins with conception is founded on a religious position which is not identical with Jewish tradition); and | | | Whereas, to deny a Jewish woman and her family the ability to obtain a safe, legal abortion when so mandated by Jewish tradition, is to deprive Jews of their fundamental right of religious freedom; | | | The Rabbinical Assembly Committee on Jewish Law and Standards takes the view that an abortion is justifiable if a continuation of pregnancy might cause the mother severe physical or psychological harm, or when the fetus is judged by competent medical opinion as severely defective. |
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| Â | Organs2 |
| | Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of The Rabbinical Assembly. | | | Conservative Judaism, 30:2 (Winter, 1976) has articles by Seymour Siegel and Daniel C. Goldfarb and a discussion on the subject of the definition of death in Jewish law. | | | Dorff, Elliot N. Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1998) pp. |
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| Â | Canadian Jewish News |
| | He said the biggest misconception about Conservative Judaism is that Conservative Jews can choose which laws to keep. | | | Much of his work in more than three decades in the rabbinate has been devoted to educating the laity of the Conservative movement about the “critical and central” role of Halachah. | | | If you compare Halachah to a rubber band, “you can stretch it to the point where, when you release it, it comes back,” says the Jewish Theological Seminary professor of Talmud and Jewish law. |
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| Â | Marsha B. Cohen's Jewish Ethics Resource Site |
| | (Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, Rabbinical Assembly) | | | This website is designed and maintained by Marsha B. Cohen, who teaches "Ethics of Jewish Living" for the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School in Miami, Florida. | | | "The Simple Life: The Case Against Ostentation in Jewish Law" by Dr. Hershey H. Friedman (CUNY) |
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http://mcohen02.tripod.com/ethics.html
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| Â | The Rabbinical Assembly Pesah Guide |
| | This guide was prepared for the Rabbinical Assembly Committee on Jewish Law and Standards by Rabbi Mayer Rabinowitz. | | | Most Ashkenazic authorities have added the following foods ( kitniyot) to the above list: rice, corn, millet, legumes (beans and peas; however, string beans are permitted). | | | Some Ashkenazic authorities permit, while others forbid, the use of legumes in a form other than their natural state, for example, corn sweeteners, corn oil, soy oil. |
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| Â | Conservative Judaism: Funeral Practices |
| | The opinion of the Conservative Committee of Jewish Law and Standards is that to exhume and then rebury a body in its correct appointed place improving its location is permitted. | | | One may also re-use the first grave but not by a relative of the person originally interred in that grave. | | | Does it matter if the error occurs in plots owned by the same family, rather than a stranger? |
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http://experts.about.com/q/951/3225173.htm
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| Â | ProRef Home Page |
| | Mergers and Takeovers in the US and UK - Law and Practice | | | Law of Secured Finance - An International Survey of Security Interests over Personal Property | | | Law of Treaties in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States Text and Commentary |
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| Â | Flagrancy to Reason - don't hate the nader, hate the game |
| | The emails released by the committee, with their schoolyard vulgarities and adolescent chest-thumping, titillated Washington for days after excerpts were published in the Post this fall. | | | Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the measure will "bring us back to the doorstep to the days of President Nixon, President Truman and other dark days in our history when taxpayer information was used against political enemies." | | | Economic liberalization before political reform - we've heard this tune before. |
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http://www.flagrancy.net/
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| Â | Janus Head: Links |
| | This Jewish Studies network is one of the oldest internet projects in the humanities, starting in February 1989, operating out of Tel Aviv University. | | | Focuses on poetry and prose to examine the dynamic relationship between the mind and the voice; between the conscience of people and the standards of mass society; between the message of the endangered individual and the moronic giant of popular opinion. | | | Like the salons of previous centuries in which intellectuals and artists would gather to argue among themselves and exchange ideas, this site is provided as a number of, hopefully comfortable, rooms or spaces. |
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