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Masorti Matters Blog

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

Celebrate the High Holidays 5781 Masorti Israel Style

Sep 17, 2020 | Masorti Matters Blog

In this unique and challenging year, we know that each of our High Holidays will be unusual, requiring imagination to connect with community and to undertake the season’s essential experiences of repentance and teshuvah. Few things will look like they have in the...

Masorti Movement Blog

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

JPW Week of September 14

Sep 15, 2020 | Jewish Pluralism Watch

A subcommittee for Israel-Diaspora relations will be launched in the Knesset. Headed by MK Cotler-Wunsh of the Blue and White Party, the committee is expected to convene at the Knesset on Monday, Sept. 21. "Just before the High Holy Days and while facing...

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Blogging from the Bimah

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

Rabbi Carl Perkins’ Impassioned Rosh Hashanah Plea for Masorti Israel

Sep 10, 2020 | Blogging from the Bimah

Rabbi Carl M. Perkins, of Temple Aliyah in Needham, Massachusetts, was inspired to record a video tribute to the Masorti Movement in Israel. This Rosh Hashanah, as we prepare to celebrate despite challenges we could not have imagined a year ago, Rabbi Perkins...

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: August 2020

Aug 20, 2020 | Faces of Masorti Israel

It may be the time of Coronavirus, but life goes on -- including the joy of bar and bat mitzvahs, get togethers and flags flying! Click on any image to enlarge. And come back soon for more pictures of everyday life in Masorti Israel.

Sharing an eloquent New Year’s Message from Masorti CEO, Dr. Yizhar Hess.

In this extraordinary time, Dr. Hess offers his warm greetings to us here and makes an important argument for the crucial work of the Masorti Movement in Israel. He makes clear why it’s incumbent on us to support this work if we’re to have an Israel that is egalitarian, pluralistic, traditional and welcoming to all Jews.