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Masorti Matters Blog

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

Consul General of Israel in New York Celebrates Launch of Masorti Egalitarian Siddur for Children with Disabilities

May 1, 2019 | Masorti Matters Blog

(Pictured above: Ambassador Dani Dayan, center, with Heidi Schneider, Chair of the Masorti Foundation Board and Gideon Aronoff, Executive Director, the Masorti Foundation)Calling the first of its kind, halachic egalitarian Siddur designed for children...

Masorti Movement Blog

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

Yom Ha’atzmaut 2019

May 10, 2019 | Masorti Movement Blog

Seventy-one years ago, on May 14th, 1948, the State of Israel was established with a proclamation. It promised, the State:"will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged...

Blogging from the Bimah

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

A Pesach Lesson by Rabbi Gordon Tucker: Four Children or One?

Apr 18, 2019 | Blogging from the Bimah

Last Pesach, we published a profound and learned teaching by Rabbi Gordon Tucker. We don't normally re-publish. So why now? Because it's all about the "why?" "it is for this very reason that our ancestors were freed, and why people everywhere yearn to be free... to...

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 Israel: May 24, 2019

May 24, 2019 | Faces of Masorti Israel

This week, young people with disabilities studying, Yizhar Hess lecturing...plus Camp Ramah-NOAM kids having fun.Click on any orange plus sign to enlarge the photos and then scroll through with the left and right arrows. Come back next week for more photos.

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.