Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
“Fifth Question” and Yom Kippur Appeal
Adopted by the CCAR at the 85th Annual Convention of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis
1974
WHEREAS, we recognize fully the need to utilize any and all sacred occasions for the
purpose of strengthening loyalty to the cause of Jewish survival and the security
of Israel, which is intricately bound up with the survival of the Jewish People,
and
WHEREAS, the Rabbinic Advisory Council of the United Jewish Appeal has developed a
beautiful and appropriate means of incorporating into Pesach Sedarim
for this year a moment of reaffirmation of our kinship with Israel through the use
of a special display for the Seder table and the inclusion into the Seder ceremonial
of a “Fifth Question,” and
WHEREAS, the Bonds for Israel organization has called upon us to utilize the day of
Yom Kippur for a special mobilization of support for Israel’s economic development
through appeals for the purchase of State of Israel Bonds, and
WHEREAS, the Central Conference of American Rabbis seeks to support the work of the
United Jewish Appeal and the State of Israel Bonds and also seeks to support new
liturgical developments,
BE IT RESOLVED, that this 85th Convention meeting in Jerusalem calls upon every member
to encourage the use of the Fifth Question in the Pesach Sedarim
for 5734, to include the Fifth Question ceremonial into community and congregational
Sedarim
, to set an example by using the ceremonial and its accompanying display in their
own private Sedarim
, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we call upon all members to encourage their congregations
to institute State of Israel Bond appeals on Yom Kippur, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we applaud the work of the Rabbinical Advisory Councils
of UJA and State of Israel Bonds and express our support for any appropriate means
which will make Jewish communities aware on sacred days of the bond between us and
Israel as logical outgrowths of our most sacred Holy Day observances.
The sense of the first paragraph was adopted. The rest of the resolution was referred
to the Executive Board.