• 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • After the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards adopted the responsum liberalizing its position on homosexual conduct, Rabbi Prouser and three other...
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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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  • [conversion] Policies and Standards. Pruzansky, Steven (March 12, 2008). "The Truth About RCA Geirus". The Jewish Press. Archived from the original on December 5...
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    Shabbat (redirect from Jewish Sabbath)
    extinguishing a fire, and transferring between domains (category 39). However, the Conservative movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards permits driving...
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    Weekly Torah portion (category Jewish life cycle)
    Readings?" (PDF). Proceedings of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly: 334–336...
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  • his bride “according to the laws of Moses and Israel.”. In Conservative Judaism, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) of the Rabbinical Assembly...
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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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  • Conservative movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, reflecting strong disagreement between liberals and traditionalists on the subject, approved...
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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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