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Current articles on Masorti Judaism
March 2010
Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef a Masorti Jew?!? - and its not Purim.
Article by Rabbi Andrew Sacks
January 2010
Kibbutz hanaton makes the news - and wins the "Where to send the wandering jew" competition.
Article on Hanaton
November 2009
It couldn't happen anywhere except Israel -
a woman arrested at Kotel for wearing a tallit and holding Torah!!
Article from Ynet
Magen Tzedek - healthy kosher eating - but can it only work if it attracts non-Jews? By J J Goldberg
From The Forward
October 2009
On how a Masorti Rabbi in Kiryat Bialik is the unofficial 'Chief Rabbi' - and what does this say about state monopolies on religion!
August 2009
An article from the Jerusalem Post on 'the hopeless irrelevance of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate'
July 2009
Jermey Rosen, an independent orthodox rabbi writes a brilliant blog on the current JFS case.
July 8th blog
June 2009
Problems that a female member of the Noam Garin in Tsahal
has had in trying to say kaddish
In Ivrit, listen to
Or read (in English)
Jerusalem Post Article
May 2009
Conversion in Israel, by Rabbi Andrew Sachs
Article
April 2009
The Count
Not actually from a Masorti site, but an interesting take on the Omer.
Article by Shlomo Gewirtz
Joseph and the four cups of wine?
From this weeks Jerusalem Post
Feb 2009
Tu b'Shvat
Article by Reuven hammer
A blog on religion and state in Israel, edited by Joel Katz, has links to some very interesting stuff. Not a masorti site, but worth looking at.
Religion and state in Israel
Jan 2009
'Sociological differences explain division in Conservative Jewry' - differing viewpoints on homosexuality between Israel's Schechter Institute and American masorti?
Article in Jerusalem Post
Saturday’s edition of the Guardian ran a review of Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg’s new book The Silence of Dark Water: An Inner Journey
Read it in full at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/03/silence-dark-water-jonathan-...
Dec 2008
Yizhar Hess, the Executive Director and CEO of the Masorti Movement, wrote this article on the death of Orthodox Secularism in israel.
The death of Orthodox Secularism
Oct 2008
An article from the NY The Jewish Week on post-denominational Judaism
