Publications: E-Blasts
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2010 E-Blasts
Question: When is a young woman descended from 19th-century Polish Zionist Nahum Sokolov and Holocaust survivors who were persecuted for being Jewish, not considered Jewish enough?
Answer: When the Israeli Official Rabbinate turns down her request for a marriage license.
To read more, click here.
With wonderful help from a great many of you, we have been successful in blocking Knesset action this session on the Rotem Conversion Bill. More than 25,000 emails to Prime Minister Netanyahu were transmitted through the link on the Masorti website. We understand that from all sources (and many groups participated), the Office of the Prime Minister received in excess of 60,000 messages. To read more, click here.
The situation with regard to the Conversion Bill looks very encouraging. Your efforts in all of this were extremely important. To read more, click here.
Your Efforts Are
Making a Difference!In excess of 20,000 people used the link on our website to oppose the Rotem Conversion Bill now before the Knesset, and that does not count those who composed their own message and wrote directly.
But we are not yet done: You can still send an email to the Prime Minister. Click here to ask Prime Minister Netanyahu to prevent passage of the MK David Rotem Conversion Bill.
Click here to read an update on the Conversion Bill and to read a Statement by the Office of the Prime Minister.
Click here to ask Prime Minister Netanyahu to prevent passage of the MK David Rotem Conversion Bill.
Click here to read the E-Blast that goes along with this request,
There are nine young Israeli women spending the year in central Massachusetts and Connecticut who never expected to celebrate a bat mitzvah. But thanks to their experience with Jewish life here in the US — a far cry from their “secular” backgrounds and the predominant rigid Orthodox practice funded by the Israeli government — the nine have reconnected with their Jewish identity. To read more, click here.
Noa Raz, a young woman who is a product of the Masorti movement and its NOAM youth group, was physically assaulted in the Beersheva bus station by a haredi man. Why? Because he could see t’fillin strap marks on her arm and called her an “abomination.” Click here to read more
Click here to read more about a case that is emblematic of the indignities, humiliations and intolerance visited upon Jews from non-Orthodox streams in Israel. Proposed conversion legislation, introduced by MK David Rotem of the Israel Beiteinu Party, would, in the opinion of the leadership of the Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements, only make the situation worse by formalizing the authority for conversions in the hands of Israel's Chief Rabbinate.
You may shake your head in disbelief at the news of the latest effort to segregate women in the public arena in Israel but the fact is that it happened. Read the story here.
Click here to learn about the result of your crucial efforts to express your strong feelings about the bill in the Knesset which would have affected conversion and the Law of Return.
The Knesset may vote soon on pending legislation to make some key changes to the Law of Return. Your help is needed! Click here to learn how you can help on a matter of urgency concerning a bill that will come before the Knesset...
Masorti Leadership Mission Participants Wowed by ‘Facts on the Ground’ – Monday, Feb. 15, 2010
Kotel- Western Wall – Monday, Feb. 25, 2010
Form response letter from Embassy of Israel
Conservative Jewish Leadership On Supporting Freedom of Religious Practice in Israel
2009 E-Blasts
Thousands Turn Out to Rally for Religious Freedom
Jerusalem Rally to Protest Kotel Arrest
Masorti Fallen Soldier Memorialized
Masorti Letters to Prime Minister Netanyahu and Chairman of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky
Prayer in motion: Masorti rally was attended by thousands to establish
that 'for the sake of Zion we shall not be silent'.