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Rabbi Gesa Ederberg is installed as the president of the Rabbinical Assembly at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, New Jersey, March 11, 2026. (Courtesy RA via JTA)
March 20, 2026, 3:08 am
Berlin rabbi makes history as first European to head Conservative rabbis’ association
In a ‘major step forward’ in relations between US and German Jews of the major denomination, Rabbi Gesa Shira Ederberg is also likely the first convert to Judaism to assume the leadership role
By Toby Axelrod
A tourist walks on the temporary egalitarian prayer platform, built in 2013 in Jerusalem's Old City Davidson Archeology Park, as seen on April 12, 2016. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
February 18, 2026, 12:25 am
Local and state government trade blame over delays upgrading Western Wall egalitarian plaza
High Court of Justice holds hearing on status of religious right at Jerusalem’s holy site for first time in years, demands answers on why 2017 directive by PM not yet implemented
By Rossella Tercatin
A boy celebrates his bar mitzvah on the egalitarian Ezrat Israel plaza near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel on June 19, 2023. (Courtesy of the Masorti Movement in Israel)
February 17, 2026, 8:21 am
High Court to hold hearing on Western Wall egalitarian services for first time in years
Liberal Jewish groups seek to ensure full rights for egalitarian prayers despite ultra-Orthodox opposition, long after government nixed compromise on the matter
By Rossella Tercatin
A Palestinian woman carries a bag of food on her head in the al-Mawasi camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 27, 2025. (AFP)
July 27, 2025, 7:14 pm
Hundreds of rabbis demand Israel stop ‘using starvation as a weapon of war’
Letter signed by rabbis worldwide and across denominations warns of ‘grave moral crisis,’ calls on government to work urgently ‘to bring home all the hostages and end the fighting’
By Ben Sales
Left: Conservative Rabbi Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz (public domain); right: From right to left, Rabbi Mauricio Balter, executive director of Masorti Olami, Dr. Yizhar Hess, Rabbi Ashira Konigsberg, Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, CEO of the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, look up at the street sign named for Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz, Herzliya, December 11, 2024. (Herzliya Municipality)
December 15, 2024, 6:06 am
1st street in Israel named for Masorti rabbi who influenced Declaration of Independence
In Herzliya, the Conservative Movement celebrates the commemoration of US cleric Shalom Tzvi Davidowitz, who is likely responsible for adding God into the historic 1948 statement
By Mati Wagner
Conservative rabbis pray at the Ezrat Yisrael egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, December 12, 2024. (Courtesy/ File)
December 14, 2024, 3:12 pm
‘Hurting together’: Conservative Rabbis meet in Israel for first time since October 7
Rabbis from communities across North and South America, Europe, and Australia convene in Jerusalem to show solidarity and reflect on the lessons of October 7
By Zev Stub
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
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