Sentences with phrase «rabbinical assembly»

Three years earlier, the Rabbinical Assembly had rejected a resolution that its Committee on Jewish Law and Standards should be instructed «to hold itself bound by the authority of Jewish law and within the frame of Jewish law.»

Schorsch had voiced similar sentiments to his fellow Conservative rabbis two months before at the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly.

The landmark vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly follows a 2006 ruling by the committee «favor [ing] the establishment of committed and loving relationships for gay and lesbian Jews.»

Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Rabbi Julie Schonfeld is the Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative and Masorti Rabbis, founded in 1901.

From 2001 - 2009, Rabbi Schonfeld served as Director of Rabbinic Development for the Rabbinical Assembly.

The White House also named Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Assembly and prominent Jewish organizational leader Susan Stern to the advisory council, which is officially called the President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

In this capacity, she spearheaded numerous landmark initiatives on behalf of the Rabbinical Assembly in areas such as career mentoring, mediation, dispute resolution, women's advancement, professional boundaries and ethics.

When the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement within Judaism issued guidelines for homosexual marriage by a vote of thirteen in favor, none opposed, and one abstention earlier this year, a Gentile friend of mine e-mailed me....

It closely works with the Rabbinical Assembly, the international body of Conservative rabbis, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.