The Forward

Masorti Movement Holds First Portugal Conversion

For the first time in the history of the Masorti movement, its rabbis performed conversions to Judaism in Portugal. The two conversions were performed in the Portuguese capital at a beit din, or ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Embracing one another and exploring big questions: The Masorti Movement's mission - opinion

The Conservative/Masorti Movement strives to hold values and ideas that are in tension with one another: tradition and modernity. A few weeks after October 7, 2023, the Rabbinical Assembly brought a ...
Centre Daily Times

Attorney Phillip Masorti wins appeal of contempt ruling issued by county Judge Bradley P. Lunsford

A New Jersey man’s drug case has led to a Superior Court ruling in favor of his attorney. On Friday, a three-judge panel of the court reversed a decision by Centre County Judge Bradley P. Lunsford ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Peres praises Masorti movement, condemns extremists

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli President Shimon Peres praised the Masorti movement’s contributions to Israel and condemned extremists in Israel. “I came here this evening to hear women singing,” Peres said ...
Jewish Journal

Masorti rips bar mitzvah rite for autistic kids held in Orthodox synagogue

A foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel slammed a bar mitzvah ceremony held at an Orthodox synagogue for non-Orthodox children with autism. Sunday’s ceremony in Rehovot was presided over by an ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Israel’s Masorti movement to ordain gays and lesbians as rabbis

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Gay and lesbian students will be ordained as Conservative rabbis in Israel. The Board of Trustees of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary voted Thursday night to accept gay and lesbian ...
Centre Daily Times

Attorney Philip Masorti seeks to disqualify Parks Miller, DA’s office from all of his cases

A local attorney made it known in court Wednesday that he is seeking the disqualification of the Centre County District Attorney’s Office from handling the cases of his clients. Before the preliminary ...
The Times of Israel

1st street in Israel named for Masorti rabbi who influenced Declaration of Independence

The city of Herzliya unveiled on December 11 the first street to be named after Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz, the Conservative rabbi who might have been responsible for introducing a reference to ...
BBC

Conservative Judaism

This article discusses the principles and values of Conservative Judaism and provides statistics and an overview of the history of the movement. ...the point of this form of Judaism is to make Judaism ...
Jewish Journal

Masorti Olami movement: Synagogue in Concepcion destroyed in Earthquake

According to the Masorti Olami, the Masorti synagogue in Concepcion was destroyed in the earthquake that rocked Chile this weekend. The head of the international Masorti organization, Rabbi Tzvi ...
The Forward

Masorti Leaders Challenge Oren’s Remarks on Tallit Arrest

Leaders of the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel today sent Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. a letter questioning recent remarks which seemed to criticize accounts of a woman who ...