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Masorti Matters Blog

News & Views from Gideon Aronoff, Executive Director, the Masorti Foundation

Today, on Giving Tuesday, we publish this important message of heartfelt, inclusive giving.

Yehoshua Hazak: The First Siddur for Children with Learning Differences

Dec 1, 2019 | Masorti Matters Blog, Spotlight on Supporters

A Pioneering Act of Loving Kindness: The First Siddur for Children with Learning Differences Rabbi Matthew Simon Sara Rubinow Simon In an act of exceptional generosity, Rabbi Matthew Simon, and his wife Sara Rubinow Simon, decided to embark on the creation of the...

Masorti Movement Blog

The latest from the Masorti Movement in Israel on Kehillot, Programs, Activism & more…

Rabbi Chaya Rowen-Baker’s Wishes for 5780

Oct 4, 2019 | Masorti Movement Blog

A Warm and Moving High Holiday Message from Rabbi Chaya Rowen-BakerThis year, inspirational rabbi, Chaya Rowen-Baker of Kehillat Ramot-Zion in French Hill, Jerusalem, shares her thoughts about the tremendous impact gifts to the Masorti Foundation are having on the...

Blogging from the Bimah

Rabbis debating & discussing crucial issues facing Masorti, Israel and the Diaspora at a time of extreme challenge

Becoming a Bar Mitzvah, Celebrating Masorti’s Commitment to Inclusion

Dec 5, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah

In his evocative D'var Torah, Aklilu Dunlap, Masorti board member and new Bar Mitzvah "boy,"connects Parashat Toldat, the story of Rebecca, Isaac and Esau, to the rights, or lack of rights, of women at that time and to this day in Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox...

Faces of Masorti Israel

Meet the people and see the places of Masorti Israel. See lifecycle ceremonies, Camp Ramah-NOAM, study groups, young and old, services at the Egalitarian Kotel and more.

Faces of Masorti: October 11, 2019

Oct 11, 2019 | Faces of Masorti Israel

We start the year 5780 off with another great collection of Faces of Masorti Israel. See Rabbi Chaya Rowen-Baker, Nerya Knafo, a great picture of Yizhar with young IDF soldiers, lots of fun NOAMniks and the beginnings of building a sukkah. Click on any orange plus...

Masorti Theater

Getting “Psyched” for Summer: NOAM & Camp Ramah-Noam

As Masorti gets ready for Camp Ramah-NOAM 2019, get a feel for the excitement, the joy and enthusiasm of young Israelis enjoying Camp Ramah-NOAM in prior years. Take yourself back your own great camp experiences…watch the sheer exuberance as these kids get ready for roughing it, for renewing old friendships, making new friends, for song, dance and color-war. Can’t read the Hebrew? Don’t worry. Just read the expressions on the faces of these kids, the language is universal.