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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

Masorti Movement

Yosef Kibita poses with his new Israeli passport. (Courtesy Masorti Movement in Israel)
August 17, 2024, 7:55 am
After 7-year legal battle, Uganda Jewish man finally gets Israeli citizenship
Interior Ministry approves the bid of Yosef Kibita from the Abayudaya community after four conversions and years of roadblocks
By Jackie Hajdenberg
File: (Left to right) Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Reverend Margaret Cave, the Dean of Coventry John Witcombe and the Assistant Secretary General of the Muslim Association of Great Britain, Ibrahim Mogra pose for photographers with a banner reading 'Coexist pilgrimage' outside Regents Park Mosque before setting off for an interreligious march for peace to St Thomas' Hospital in London on February 19, 2015. (Photo by Justin TALLIS / AFP)
February 14, 2024, 11:40 am
Prominent British rabbi warns against potentially ‘haunting’ Rafah operation
Masorti Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg says Israeli operation in south Gaza city where a million are sheltering alongside Hamas battalions could lead to unimaginable suffering
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Nine-year-old Bena Hagdu holds injera bread at the Hannaton Educational Center at Kibbutz Hanaton, December 2023. (Omer Sharvit/ Zman)
January 15, 2024, 7:31 am
Ignored by the state, Eritreans from Sderot find temporary shelter in northern kibbutz
Asylum seekers find themselves displaced once again following the Oct. 7 massacre; deprived of government assistance due to bureaucracy, they rely on the kindness of others
By Omer Sharvit
Supreme Court building, Jerusalem (original image via iStock, composite image by The Times of Israel)
December 13, 2023, 2:45 pm
Non-Orthodox converts to Judaism eligible for free circumcision, High Court rules
Decision ends a 14-year legal struggle for treatment equal to that of males who undergo Orthodox conversion
By Canaan Lidor
Ofri Meoded Danon and his mother celebrate his bar mitzvah at the egalitarian plaza of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel in May 2023. (Courtesy of Meoded Danon)
June 23, 2023, 9:56 am
Red tape keeps non-Orthodox worshipers a stone’s throw from the Western Wall
5 years after stone collapse at holy site, authorities have yet to reopen access to Wall at egalitarian section; religious activists argue delay is deliberate
By Canaan Lidor
Demonstrators rally on a highway in Tel Aviv to protest the Israeli government's planned overhaul of the judicial system, on February 18, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
February 19, 2023, 7:48 pm
Conservative movement: Legal overhaul would ‘eviscerate’ Israeli checks and balances
Joining other international Jewish groups, Masorti-Conservative leadership comes out in favor of President Herzog’s call to freeze legislation, hold dialogue on judicial reform
By Judah Ari Gross
Channel 14 workers and supporters protest against Yair Lapid, the then-prime minister, in Tel Aviv on October 11, 2022. The poster reads: "Especially now: 14" (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 11, 2023, 2:23 am
Court rules right-wing TV network discriminated against non-Orthodox Jewish groups
Channel 14 ordered to pay $46,000 to Reform, Conservative groups over refusal to give airtime to their voices, which violated the terms of its license as a Jewish tradition network
By Michael Bachner
MK Amichai Chikli at a Knesset House Committee meeting on the Yamina party's request to declare him a 'defector,' on April 25, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 29, 2022, 2:47 pm
Amichai Chikli, son of a Conservative rabbi, named Diaspora affairs minister
Though the Likud lawmaker doesn’t identify with the progressive denomination, he has deep ties to it; as founder of a pre-army program, he’s connected to a variety of Jewish groups
By Judah Ari Gross
A Hanukkah menora that was sent to Ukraine by Midreshet Schecter, a Masorti organization, after it was lit by a Jewish Ukrainian soldier serving near Bakhmut on December 20, 2022. (Courtesy Midreshet Schecter)
December 29, 2022, 8:38 am
Jewish groups shore up Ukrainian communities for an uncertain, freezing winter
As Russia bombs infrastructure, attention turns away from emigration toward keeping those still there warm and fed, with electricity, clothing and Hanukkah necessities
By Judah Ari Gross
Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to supporters at the far-right party's campaign headquarters after the results of exit polls are announced, November 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 8, 2022, 7:16 pm
In rare plea, Conservative Jewry tells Netanyahu: Don’t make Ben Gvir a minister
Mercaz Olami, the Zionist umbrella arm of Conservative-Masorti Judaism, warns appointing far-right lawmaker to a cabinet post would threaten Israel-Diaspora ties
By Judah Ari Gross
A police officer stands between a group of ultra-Orthodox youths and a bar mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on June 30, 2022. (Laura Ben-David)
July 26, 2022, 4:53 pm
Government bans gender-separation barriers at Western Wall egalitarian plaza
After series of disturbances, Prime Minister’s Office tells director of site to block anyone seeking to bring a ‘mehitza’ into prayer space
By Jeremy Sharon
Ultra-Orthodox youths interrupt a bar mitzvah ceremony at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on June 30, 2022. (Laura Ben-David)
June 30, 2022, 11:07 pm
Haredim interrupt Americans’ Western Wall bar, bat mitzvahs, tear up prayer books
Youths call Jewish worshipers ‘Nazis,’ ‘Christians’ and ‘animals’ at egalitarian prayer space on the southern end of the Western Wall
By Judah Ari Gross
Germany's Anti-Semitism Commissioner Felix Klein (2nd from R) and Rabbi Gesa Ederberg (R) listen to the testimonies of Ukrainian jewish youths Mark from Kyiv (2nd from L) and Sonja from Odessa at Berlin's Jewish International school in Berlin on March 24, 2022. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
March 31, 2022, 10:59 am
Ukraine’s Jews find ‘remarkable’ refuge in Germany, 77 years after the Holocaust
Thousands of Ukrainian Jewish refugees have fled fighitng for German safety; local community chief says Berlin has ‘taken on its historic obligations’
By Yannick Pasquet
Women of the Wall leader Anat Hoffman and URJ president Rabbi Rick Jacobs hold Torah scrolls at the Western Wall complex on March 4, 2022. (Rick Jacobs/Twitter)
March 27, 2022, 5:19 pm
Coalition whip rejects Western Wall deal, says site needs its ‘Orthodox character’
MK Idit Silman’s remarks against compromise that would grant progressive movements greater representation at the Kotel spark criticism from Reform, Conservative Jews
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: A Ugandan Abayudaya Jew leans forward to touch a Torah scroll carried by Enosh Keki Mainah (left) during Shabbat services at the synagogue in Nabugoya, Uganda, on March 3, 2002. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim/File)
December 14, 2021, 6:24 pm
Israel denies citizenship to Jewish Ugandan immigrant, defying High Court ruling
Interior Ministry rejects Kibita Yosef’s application for citizenship again, despite court decision to recognize non-Orthodox conversions performed in Israel
By Shira Hanau
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