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...
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The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, the body of scholars of Jewish law in Conservative Judaism, has published a responsa on suicide and assisted...
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Conservative halakha (category Jewish law and rituals)
rules on Jewish law both through centralized decisions, primarily by the Rabbinical Assembly and its Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and through...
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Halakha (redirect from Jewish law and tradition)
Haderech ("A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice") by Rabbi Isaac Klein with contributions from the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical...
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Rabbinical Assembly (category Jewish charities based in the United States)
Officer of the RA. The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) is the movement's central body on interpreting Jewish law and custom; it was founded...
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Elliot N. Dorff (category American Jewish theologians)
Journal of Law and Religion. Dorff is the chairman of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and has written many responsa on various...
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homosexuality in-and-of-itself. This opinion is often still maintained by Orthodox Judaism. Conservative Judaism's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, which...
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Aliyah (Torah) (section Kohen and Levi aliyot)
Committee on Jewish Law and Standards has ruled that the practice of calling a kohen to the first aliyah represents a custom rather than a law, and thus...
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The Conservative movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards has stated that while refraining from operating lights and electrical appliances is considered...
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Joel Roth (rabbi) (category Jewish American non-fiction writers)
former member and chair of the assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) which deals with questions of Jewish law and tradition, and serves as...
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Third Temple (category Jewish messianism)
THE LAWS OF FAMILY PURITY FOR THE MODERN WORLD, Committee on Jewish Law and Standards" (PDF). Rabbinical Assembly. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20...
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Emor (section In medieval Jewish interpretation)
Leviticus 17–26 as a collection of laws and designated it the "Holiness Code." In 1990, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of Conservative Judaism ruled...
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Women in Judaism (redirect from Jewish education of women)
and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly. "Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz, Mikveh and the Sanctity of Family Relations, Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, Rabbinical...
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Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz, RESHAPING THE LAWS OF FAMILY PURITY FOR THE MODERN WORLD, Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, Rabbinical Assembly, 6 December 2006...
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Proceedings of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative Movement 1927–1970. Vol. III. Jerusalem: The Rabbinical Assembly and The Institute...
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Mamzer (redirect from Bastard (Jewish law))
the presumption of paternity on the part of a married woman's actual husband. The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) of the Rabbinical Assembly...
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Mikveh (redirect from Jewish ritual bath)
Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz, RESHAPING THE LAWS OF FAMILY PURITY FOR THE MODERN WORLD, Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, Rabbinical Assembly, December 6,...
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Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, expresses a common Conservative Jewish view on the subject: Conservative Judaism has always been premised on the...
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Triennial cycle (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)
years. In a 1987 responsum, the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards published a triennal calendar for congregations choosing...
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Niddah (redirect from Menstruant (Jewish law))
the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, wrote about an upswing in the observance of the laws of family purity within the Conservative Jewish community:...
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Jill Jacobs (rabbi) (category American Jewish theologians)
Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards that says that Jews should pay their workers a living wage, create dignified workplaces, and hire union...
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maintains a Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. The body of Reform rabbis is the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Following the Renaissance and the Enlightenment...
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touches is not to be touched and no physical contact is permitted. On the same day as the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards released its homosexuality...
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Gordon Tucker (category Jewish Theological Seminary of America semikhah recipients)
Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel, and as a member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly. In 2006, his name...
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Kedoshim (section In medieval Jewish interpretation)
Shabbat, although the Committee encouraged walking or riding a bicycle, when possible. The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative Movement...
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Religious response to assisted reproductive technology (category Kinship and descent)
link] Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. They vote on proposed responsa. A responsa may be approved by either a majority or a minority vote, and individual...
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Kashrut (redirect from Jewish dietary law)
of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jewish people are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. Food that...
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Kitniyot (category Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish law)
the tradition of avoiding kitniyot during Passover, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, an authoritative body in Conservative Judaism, issued two...
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Isaac Klein (category American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent)
1958–1960, and a member of its Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, 1948–1979. He was the author of several books, notably, A Guide to Jewish Religious...
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Theodore Friedman (category Jewish American non-fiction writers)
reorganization of the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law into the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly (CJLS). Here...
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