In the Media: Press Articles
This is a list of press articles that relate to the Masorti movement that have appeared in an assortment of media. If you come across an article that you feel could be of interest to Masorti, please send us a link to the article and we will review it.
To read current posts by Rabbi Andrew Sacks, visit his blog, Masorti Matters, on the Jerusalem Post web site.
2010
Editorial: "Off the Mark" on Rotem Conversion Bill
By Rabbi Alan Silverstein and David H. Lissy, New York Jewish News August 11, 2010
Editorial: Alienating the Diaspora
The Jerusalem Post July 13, 2010
What Will It Take? The Fight for Religious Pluralism in Israel
By Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik, The Jewish Week May 14, 2010
Woman attacked for tefillin imprint
JTA May 13, 2010
Misunderstanding Diaspora Jews
By David Lissy, The Jewish Week May 11, 2010
Pulling the wool over our eyes
By Rabbi Andrew Sacks, The Jerusalem Post May 4, 2010
Time to Wake Up
By Yizhar Hess, The Jerusaelem Post April 22, 2010
Praying with our Feet
By Rabbi Andrew Sacks, CJ: Voices of Conservative Judaism Spring, 2010
Western Wall shouldn't be a synagogue
By Gil Hoffman and Rebecca Ann Stoil, The Jerusalem Post February 04, 2010
Embassy Letter on Kotel Rubs Salt in the Wound
By Josh Nathan-Kazis, The Forward January 27, 2010
Free the Kotel a 2nd time: Western Wall must be liberated from growing Orthodox takeover
Yizhar Hess, YNet News January 22, 2010
Leaders Mull Options To Protest Restrictions at Kotel
Debra Nussbaum Cohen, The Forward January 13, 2010
Liberating the Wall
Editorial, The Forward January 06, 2010
Once-failing kibbutz pins hopes for revival on Conservative Judaism
Ben Harris, Jewish Telegraphic Agency January 05, 2010
2009
Challenging Traditions at the Heart of Judaism
Isabel Kershner, The New York Times December 21, 2009
The ‘Crime’ of Praying with a Tallit, and a Plea for Tolerance
Nofrat Frenkel, The Forward November 24, 2009
Police arrest female activist after donning prayer shawl at Western Wall
Nir Hasson, HaAretz November 20, 2009
Tradition Today: Are we really one?
Reuven Hammer, Jerusalem Post November 19, 2009 (The writer is the head of the Rabbinical Court of the Masorti Movement and the author of several books, the most recent being Entering Torah.)
Masorti Wedding Ad Angers Chief Rabbinate
Yair Alpert, Matzav.com March 26, 2009