Feb 18, 2022 | Blogging from the Bimah
Rabbi Elisha Wolfin, Kehillat Ve’Ahavta: Parashat Ki Tissah: Aharon, the Brother Who Understood In Parashat Ki Tissah, Moshe comes down from the height of Mount Sinai after forty days and nights, and meets his big brother, Aharon, at the bottom. Moshe is holding...Dec 21, 2021 | Blogging from the Bimah
In response to the announcement by Israel’s Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana that the Kotel agreement is once again shelved, the Rabbinical Assembly issued the following statement: We are troubled by Minister Kahana’s announcement this week to stall...
Sep 23, 2021 | Blogging from the Bimah
Rabbi David Arias of Kehilat Moriah, the oldest Masorti kehilla, speaks of changes and also of what, in our tradition, is unchanging. What’s required of us? Prayer,T’shuva and Tzedakah. How do we think and rethink this in the Days of Awe where we may be...
May 11, 2021 | Blogging from the Bimah
The beginning of Parshat Tazria/Metzora begins with an inequality: when a woman gives birth to a son she is טמאה a word I think no translation does justice to (generally “impure” or “unclean”) with him for 7 days until his brit milah and then she remains טמאה, for an...
Mar 17, 2021 | Blogging from the Bimah
Masorti is honored to share Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove’s eloquent and passionate sermon in response to the recent Israeli Supreme Court decision on Conservative/Masorti and Reform conversions in Israel and its impact on the relationship between Israel and the...
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. Rabbi Perkins reflects on a trip to Israel in 2019 where he was invited to give a D’var Torah at the Kotel. Where at...
