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News and Events from 2009
Australian Jewish News – “The Masorti Option”
With Kehilat Nitzan moving into its own purpose-built synagogue next year, the Masorti (Conservative) stream of Judaism – relatively new to Australia – has taken another major step forward. Peter Kohn examines the Masorti movement in Melbourne and Sydney. There’s no place like home, for a family, and for a synagogue. So when Melbourne’s […]
Siraly – The Jewish Hangout of Budapest, a JTA video article
JTA’s Ben Harris visited Siraly, the home of MAROM Budapest, and filed a video report The Jewish Hangout of Budapest By Ben Harris · Years ago, philanthropist Michael Steinhardt financed the establishment of Makor, a spot on the Upper West Side that was supposed to allow Jews to do Jewish, and sometimes not-so-Jewish, things in a Jewish […]
Masorti Rabbi Mauricio Balter becomes unofficial Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Bialik
The Jerusalem Post – Matthew Wagner Due to allegations of sexual impropriety, Kiryat Bialik’s only state-salaried rabbi, appointed by the Chief Rabbinate, temporarily suspended himself recently while he launched his legal defense. In his absence, Rabbi Mauricio Balter has become the town’s unofficial chief rabbi. On Yom Kippur, around 600 people attended the Kol Nidre […]
Campaign by FEDECC Argentina for Gilad Shalit
Aurora Digital : Silvana Schneiderman Translation (by Masorti Olami) in English of original article (below) from Aurora Digital (www.aurora-israel.co.il) Campaign by FEDECC Argentina for Gilad Shalit The Federation of Communities of Conservative Judaism in Argentina (FEDECC) started an intense campaign surrounding Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier kidnapped in 2006 by Hamas. The objective of the […]
Diario Información (Alicante, Spain) : Purposes for the year 5770 (Spanish)
Diario Información : Pino Alberola (Below is English translation by Masorti Olami. Below that is original article in Spanish) The Jewish community in Alicante celebrates the New Year, one of the most important festivals of the Jewish calendar which lasts ten days and culminates with the feast of Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement. The […]
Rabbi Dalsace to take up post in East Paris
Rabbi Yeshaya Dalsace of Kehilat Maayane Or in Nice, will be moving to Paris next month where he will join Dor Vador (formerly Adath Shalom Est), a new emerging community in the eastern part of the city. The eastern part of Paris, with a population of 100,000 Jews, has a large number of potential members for the […]
Rabbinical Duo Leads Drive to Revive Conservative Kibbutz
Raphael Ahren Until they met a few years ago in rabbinical school, Yoav Ende and Yonatan Sadoff had led quite different lives. Now, after having been ordained earlier this month by the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem, they are planning to spend their next stage of life together on a sparsely populated kibbutz twelve kilometers […]
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