Food Insecurity Resolution (2025) In the Jewish tradition, responding to hunger is a mitzvah, and many examples throughout our sacred texts speak to the requirement to provide food for those in need. Ta’anit 20b tells us that “when Rav Huna would eat a meal, he would open his door and say, ‘Whoever is in need, Continue Reading »
Resolution for Criminal Justice Reform 2024 Teshuvah: Return, Repentance, and Restorative Justice Teshuvah is the process of redemption by which a person who has committed a wrong returns to the path of righteousness. In response to the “War on Crime” and the “War on Drugs” legislation which began in the 1970s, the justice system in Continue Reading »
Abortion (1976) Women’s League for Conservative Judaism believes that freedom of choice is inherent in the civil rights of women. We also believe that the welfare of the mother must always be our primary concern. We therefore urge our sisterhoods to oppose any legislative attempts through Constitutional amendments, the deprivation of Medicaid, family services and Continue Reading »
Resolution for Woman’s Health (2022) The female body has been understudied and ignored in medical research since the beginning of science. Attitudes and education are changing for the better within the medical and scientific establishment, but much more needs to be done. When women’s bodies and conditions are understudied, and consequently undiagnosed and misdiagnosed, women’s Continue Reading »
Resolution for Woman’s Right to Choose (2020) Biblical and rabbinic sources provide the background for the Conservative Jewish response to a woman’s right to bodily autonomy and to the relative rights of a woman versus a fetus. (This resolution is based upon the 2012 Rabbinical Assembly resolution on this subject.) It is also amended from Continue Reading »
LGBTQ+ Resolution (2020) Women’s League for Conservative Judaism LGBTQ+ Updated Version Part One Resolution LGBTQ+ Background Part Two Resolution LGBTQ+ Background Part Two Resolution INTRODUCTION: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I?” (Pirkei Avot, 1:14) As members of a global community, Continue Reading »
Support of a Women’s Right to Choose. Biblical and rabbinic sources provide the background for the Conservative Jewish response to a women’s right to bodily autonomy and to the relative rights of a women versus a fetus. (This resolution is based upon the 2012 Rabbinical Assembly resolution on this subject.) It is also amended from Continue Reading »
BACKGROUND As Jews, descendants of those who escaped from Egyptian bondage, we are committed to helping combat Human Trafficking, the modern-day slavery. HUMAN TRAFFICKING DEFINITIONS* “Sex trafficking occurs when a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person performing the act is under the age of 18. Sex trafficking occurs in a number Continue Reading »
Background In 1990, Women’s League for Conservative Judaism affirmed by resolution that religious pluralism is essential to Jewish unity, that the Western Wall in Jerusalem is a cherished holy place for all Jews of all shades of belief, and that women have the right to worship at the Western Wall free from intimidation and harassment. Continue Reading »
Background Biblical and rabbinic sources provide the background for the Conservative Jewish response to a woman’s right to bodily autonomy and to the relative rights of a woman versus a fetus. (This resolution is based upon the 2012 Rabbinical Assembly resolution on this subject.) In Exodus 21:22-23 we read: “When men fight, and one of Continue Reading »
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