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The Rabbinical Assembly (RA) is the international association of Conservative rabbis. [1]

34 relations: American Jewish University, Amy Eilberg, Aramaic language, Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, Conservative halakha, Conservative Judaism, Conservative Judaism (journal), Elliot N. Dorff, Etz Hayim Humash, Halakha, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Ira F. Stone, Ismar Schorsch, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish Publication Society, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Jonathan Wittenberg, Julie Schonfeld, Machzor, Martin Samuel Cohen, Musar movement, Rabbi, Responsa, Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano, Siddur, Siddur Sim Shalom, Tisha B'Av, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Vaad, Wolfe Kelman, Yeshiva, Yom HaShoah, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

American Jewish University

The American Jewish University, formerly the separate institutions University of Judaism and Brandeis-Bardin Institute, is a Jewish institution in Los Angeles, California.

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Amy Eilberg

Amy Eilberg (born October 12, 1954) is the first female rabbi ordained in Conservative Judaism.

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Aramaic language

Aramaic (אַרָמָיָא Arāmāyā, ܐܪܡܝܐ, آرامية) is a language or group of languages belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic language family.

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Committee on Jewish Law and Standards

The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards is the central authority on halakha (Jewish law and tradition) within Conservative Judaism; it is one of the most active and widely known committees on the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly.

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Conservative halakha

Conservative Judaism views halakha (Jewish law) as normative and binding.

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Conservative Judaism

Conservative Judaism (known as Masorti Judaism outside North America) is a major Jewish denomination, which views Jewish Law, or Halakha, as both binding and subject to historical development.

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Conservative Judaism (journal)

Conservative Judaism was a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1945 until 2014.

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Elliot N. Dorff

Elliot N. Dorff (born 24 June 1943) is an American Conservative rabbi.

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Etz Hayim Humash

The Etz Hayim (etz hayyim עץ חיים, "tree of life" in English) humash, also known as Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, is a humash (a Torah in printed form) published and used by the Conservative Jewish movement.

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Halakha

Halakha (הֲלָכָה,; also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, halachah or halocho) is the collective body of Jewish religious laws derived from the Written and Oral Torah.

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Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (also known as HUC, HUC-JIR, and The College-Institute) is a Jewish seminary with several locations in the United States and one location in Jerusalem.

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Ira F. Stone

Rabbi Ira F. Stone is a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement.

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Ismar Schorsch

Ismar Schorsch (born November 3, 1935 in Hanover) is the Chancellor emeritus of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; القُدس) is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jewish Publication Society

The Jewish Publication Society (JPS), originally known as the Jewish Publication Society of America, is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English.

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is a religious education organization located in New York, New York.

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Jonathan Wittenberg

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg (born 17 September 1957 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Masorti rabbi, the Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism UK.

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Julie Schonfeld

Julie Schonfeld is the first female rabbi to serve in the chief executive position of an American rabbinical association, having been named the executive vice president of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly (RA) in 2008 and later Chief Executive Officer of the RA.

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Machzor

The mahzor (מחזור, alternately romanised machzor, plural mahzorim, and, respectively) is the prayer book used by Jews on the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

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Martin Samuel Cohen

Martin Samuel Cohen is rabbi of the Shelter Rock Jewish Center in Roslyn, New York.

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Musar movement

The Musar movement (also Mussar movement) is a Jewish ethical, educational and cultural movement that developed in 19th century Lithuania, particularly among Orthodox Lithuanian Jews.

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Rabbi

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah.

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Responsa

Responsa (Latin: plural of responsum, "answers") comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them.

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Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano

Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano (Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, also known as the Marshall T. Meyer Latin American Rabbinical Seminary) is a Jewish religious, cultural, and academic center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose primary purpose is to educate and ordain rabbis from Latin America who will help to strengthen and sustain Jewish communities throughout the region.

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Siddur

A siddur (סדור; plural siddurim סדורים) is a Jewish prayer book, containing a set order of daily prayers.

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Siddur Sim Shalom

Siddur Sim Shalom refers to any siddur in a family of siddurim, Jewish prayerbooks, and related commentaries, published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

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Tisha B'Av

Tisha B'Av (תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב, "the ninth of Av") is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both the First Temple by the Babylonians and the Second Temple by the Romans in Jerusalem.

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United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) is the largest network of Conservative Jewish congregations in the world, united by a shared purpose to inspire current and future generations of Jews to seek meaning, find connection, and experience wholeness in a world that is complex and ever evolving.

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Vaad

Vaad is a Hebrew term for a council.

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Wolfe Kelman

Wolfe Kelman (November 27, 1923 – June 26, 1990) was an Austrian-born American Rabbi and leader in the Conservative Judaism in the United States who never led a congregation, serving for decades as a mentor to hundreds of rabbis in his role as the executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, where he also prepared the initial steps for the rabbinic ordination of women in the Conservative movement.

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Yeshiva

Yeshiva (ישיבה, lit. "sitting"; pl., yeshivot or yeshivos) is a Jewish institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and the Torah.

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Yom HaShoah

Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day"), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and for the Jewish resistance in that period.

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Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies

The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, informally known as the "Ziegler School" or simply "Ziegler", is the graduate program of study leading to Ordination as Conservative Rabbis at the American Jewish University (formerly known as the University of Judaism).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbinical_Assembly

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