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Conservative rabbis approve same-sex marriage ceremonies

The Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards — which sets halachic policy for the Conservative movement — has voted unanimously to provide the approximately 1,600 Conservative rabbis with guidelines on performing same-sex marriages.

L.A. Orthodox rabbis want business ethics to be kosher, too

Seeking to accentuate Jewish traditions that place a premium on ethical integrity, Los Angeles Orthodox rabbis are encouraging local businesses to sign up for a new seal of certification that ensures employers are treating workers fairly and humanely

Is There Life After Denominations?

There were rabbis in hot tubs, rabbis on couches, rabbis in restaurants — rabbis just about everywhere you turned in Palm Springs this week as more than 300 gathered for the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis\’ (PARR) 58th annual convention and the (Conservative) Rabbinical Assembly Pacific Southwest Region\’s regional convention.

‘JAM’-packed Campus Outreach

It\’s not unusual to see 60 students cramming into an nonairconditioned duplex on fraternity row on a Saturday night at UCLA — unless
those students happen to be surrounding a havdalah candle singing Hebrew songs.

Divided We Stand

One Friday night, I was at a local rabbi\’s house for Shabbat dinner, and he said to me: \”The Jewish Journal should be a newspaper that unites the different denominations of our community.\”

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More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.