Rabbinical Assembly
Conservative rabbis approve new language for nonbinary Jews
By Yonat Shimron — June 8, 2022
(RNS) — Calling people up to the Torah by name is a long-standing Saturday morning practice. Now the Conservative movement has formalized a series of Hebrew terms service leaders can use to call nonbinary people to Torah honors.
Uvalde school shooting: Faith leaders offer comfort, call for reform of gun laws
By Religion News Service — May 25, 2022
(RNS) — With the news of 19 children and two others killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, religious leaders from across the spectrum express their sorrow, with many saying now is the time for a new approach to gun control.
In a first, Conservative movement publishes list of expelled rabbis to website
By Yonat Shimron — October 22, 2021
(RNS) — The list of eight rabbis (plus one who is suspended until June 2022) was made public this week as part of a new reckoning with sexual misconduct and ethical accountability.
At Shavuot, 3 NC synagogues find unity in online Torah study
By Yonat Shimron — May 28, 2020
(RNS) — The six-hour online Torah-fest may be a harbinger of the kinds of creative changes in Jewish communal life resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
Conservative rabbinical group selects new leader
By Yonat Shimron — April 12, 2019
(RNS) — Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, 52, who has served his entire career at Shaare Torah, in Gaithersburg, Md., will lead the 1,700-member international organization of Conservative rabbis.
What will be news for the Jews in 2019?
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 2, 2019
Anti-semitism, anti-Israel agitation, women in leadership, intermarriage.... I look into my crystal ball.
Why the rabbis ‘dissed’ Trump
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 24, 2017
(RNS) — If rabbis are angry with Trump, blame the Bible.
Rabbis to forgo annual High Holy Days call with president over Charlottesville remarks
By Kimberly Winston — August 23, 2017
(RNS) — Rabbis deemed President Trump's Charlottesville statement 'so lacking in moral leadership and empathy for the victims of racial and religious hatred that we cannot organize such a call this year.'
Top Conservative rabbi to resign over ‘sexual identity’ struggle
By Lauren Markoe — April 21, 2016
(RNS) A leader in the Conservative Jewish movement asks forgiveness from his Dallas congregation.
A new prayerbook for Conservative Judaism
By Lauren Markoe — February 9, 2016
The language embraces women, gays and non-Hebrew speakers.
Israeli cabinet allows wider group of Orthodox rabbis to perform conversions
By Michele Chabin — November 3, 2014
JERUSALEM (RNS) The resolution should enable many of the 364,000 Israelis who are not Jewish to find Orthodox rabbis more welcoming than the 33 rabbis picked by the rabbinate to head conversion courts.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Passover discomfort over slavery
By Julie Schonfeld — March 25, 2013
(RNS) Jewish tradition commands us to see ourselves as though we were slaves in Egypt. As I sit at my Passover Seder this year, I will wonder about my dining room chairs, and my tablecloth, both of which seem too inexpensive for the labor that must have gone into producing them.
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