Media Web Sites

These are additional websites that carry information about Israel and other issues that impact Masorti. Please note that inclusion of a site in this list does not imply an endorsement of the site.

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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