Dec 29, 2021 | Masorti Movement Blog
A Compelling Vision of the Masorti Rabbinate at Work As we end this year, we share a Masorti rabbi’s reflections on his eventful first year as a pulpit rabbi in Magen Avraham in Omer, in the south of Israel. On his first day, he was “welcomed” by his...Dec 6, 2021 | Masorti Movement Blog
In a searing Op-Ed in Israel HaYom, newly-appointed head of Masorti’s Jewish Pluralism Watch, Sharon Banyan Primor, writes about the threat to Jewish continuity in Israel and beyond from the rigid control of the Chief Rabbinate over conversions. She wrote her...
Nov 5, 2021 | Masorti Movement Blog
Masorti Movement Blog Rakefet Ginsberg, CEO, Masorti Movement of Israel In preparation for the Rosh Chodesh Kislev prayer service, all bodies of the Conservative Movement in Israel and around the world sent a letter to the President of Israel, the Prime Minister and...
Aug 9, 2021 | Azarat Yisrael (Masorti Kotel/Robinson’s Arch), Jewish Pluralism Watch, Masorti Movement Blog
After Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, the ultra-Orthodox Rosh Yeshiva of Har Bracha in the West Bank, was quoted in an article in Arutz 7 making comments surprisingly supportive of Masorti (and Reform) Jews, I decided to get in touch with him. I was curious, of course, and...
Jul 27, 2021 | Masorti Movement Blog
Coming from a packed week in Israel with a delegation of Masorti leaders, Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and of the Rabbinical Assemply, published a powerful opinion piece recently in the Jerusalem Post. He writes of the...
Jul 23, 2021 | Masorti Movement Blog
Watch this video compilation to see what our Masorti Israel friends and colleagues experienced as they tried to pray at the Egalitarian Family Kotel on Tisha B’Av. We hope you will help us return to decency and respect for all at the Kotel. And help the Masorti...
