Conservative/Masorti Judaism
by Mark Berch • February 25th, 2008 2:10 PM
Category: History & Community
-A report on Conservative Judaism’s annual Rabbinical Assembly convention, which had the theme “Religion in the Public Square.” (Washington Jewish Week)
-A look at Erica Lippitz, one of the Conservative Movement’s first two cantors. (NJ Jewish News)
-Masorti leaders talk about the difficulties of luring Israelis to non-Orthodox Judaism, and the lack of a level playing field for competing with the Orthodox establishment. (NJ Jewish News)
-A Conservative shul runs a “G2G service” so different that the that the shul’s press release had to reassure that “it is NOT a Reform service …” (Washington Jewish Week)
-An interview with Chaya Baker, Israel’s only female Masorti pulpit rabbi, who didn’t originally set out to be a rabbi: “I went to rabbinical school because I wanted to learn Judaism on a high level.” (NJ Jewish News)
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