Kol Nefesh Masorti

Rabbi Joel is sending out a weekly letter whenever he is not here in the UK. It maybe related to current events, Israel, the parashah or whatever piques his interest. We welcome your response.

May 11th

On Blasphemy

6th day Pesach, April 12th

April 2012

'Modesty Police' threaten Masorti women in Mahane Israel, Jerusalem

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/modesty-guard-demands-jerusalem-woma...

Israeli Conservative Movement approves ordination of gay rabbis

’A very important development in Jewish law,’ says President of the Israeli Conservative Movement Rabbinical Assembly.

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/israeli-conservative-movement-approv...

Shmaya - a Ritual & Educational Mikva in the Galilee

Article on a new mikva at Kibbutz BHanaton

March 2012

As the race for Chief Rabbi heats up, (a bit!) Rabbi Reuven Hammer reflects on a past Chief Rabbi who trained at the Conservative JTS
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=263029

Jan 2012

Masorti Olami is the Masorti (Conservative) movement's international organisation.

Click to view this video featuring many of UK masorti's well known leaders.

AMS and Kol Nefesh are signed-up members of Masorti Olami.

KNM Events calender

This 'What's On?' page (click the menu above) lists events in the wider community.

See the Calendar (on home page and under 'Whats on' on the menu at top of page)for all the action at Kol Nefesh. Select a weekly, monthly or listing view of what is on at Kol Nefesh.

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Some of the events in the wider community are

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Professor Colin Shindler (SOAS)
‘Israel and the European Left: Zionists, Trotskyists and Stalinists’
12 March, 2012.
18:00-19:30
Room AG21
College Building (280 St. John Street)
City University, London, EC1V OHB
For details please contact Dr. Amnon Aran
amnon.aran.1@city.ac.uk

What is going on in israel?

Anat Hoffman is arrested for carrying a Sefer Torah at the Kotel,

A conversion bill going through the knesset which is being bitterly opposed by the Israeli Masorti and Reform movements.

Articles & letters below:

Video of Anat's arrest
http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/129324/

Rabbi Wittenburg
Letter to PM Netanyahu

Alana Newhouse (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/opinion/16newhouse.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

Fox news (fair & balanced (sic)):
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/12/religious-conversion-moves-ahead...

Rabbi Julie Schonfeld:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-julie-schonfeld/israel-conversion-bi...

Click here for a monthly Jewish calender

Go to the Events calender in the right hand panel to see this weeks Shabbat programme at KNM.
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Jews have been studying the Torah for thousands of years without running out of new insights. A group of us started to meet weekly at our homes in the autumn of 2007 to spend a couple of hours continuing this tradition. Bringing a chumash ot two, maybe some commentaries, we read and discussed the next week's sedrah, trying to understand it from a non-fundamentalist perspective. We had fascinating discussions on the moral, historical and halachic meanings of each week's Torah reading, rarely managing to complete the sedrah before time ran out.

This year we have decided to study Samuel.

Come and join us - no prior knowledge is needed

(the Prophet Samuel by Claude Vignon)

At the Kelly's