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conservative
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.\”