Central Conference of American Rabbis
- Central Conference of American Rabbis
The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), founded in 1889 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, is the principal organization of Reform Jewish rabbis in the United States and Canada.
It primarily consists of rabbis educated at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, New York City, Los Angeles, and Jerusalem. The CCAR also offers membership to those who have graduated in Europe from the Leo Baeck College in London (United Kingdom) and the Abraham Geiger College at the University of Potsdam (Germany), and others who joined the Reform movement after being ordained. Most of the last group graduated from either the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary or the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
The CCAR issues responsa, resolutions, and platforms, but in keeping with the principles of Reform Judaism, their positions are non-binding on individual rabbis or congregations. It is also the publisher of "CCAR Journal", a journal of Reform Judaism published quarterly. The group also runs the CCAR Press, a large publishing house that produces Reform siddurim, machzorim, and haggadot with a mixture of Hebrew and English. The most well-known CCAR prayerbooks include "Gates of Prayer", "Gates of Repentance", and the recently published "Mishkan T'filah".
The CCAR in 1937 wrote the Columbus platform as an official platform of the American Reform movement. The CCAR rewrote its principles in 1976 with its "Centenary Perspective" and rewrote them again in the 1999 as "A Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism". According to the CCAR, personal autonomy still has precedence over these platforms.
In 1983, the CCAR took one of its most controversial stands and formally affirmed that a Jewish identity can be passed down through either the mother or the father, if the child is raised with a Jewish identity.
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* [http://ccarnet.org/index.cfm? Central Conference of American Rabbis]
* [http://ccarpress.org/ Central Conference of American Rabbis Press]
* [http://rj.org/ Reform Judaism Home Page]
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