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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Steven Wernick

Actor Adam Sandler (left) with Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin of Toronto's Beth Tzedec Synagogue, where Sandler and cast spent much of the summer filming his upcoming tween film, 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!' (Courtesy: Robyn Fryer Bodzin)
August 18, 2022, 7:08 pm
Adam Sandler spends 6 weeks at Toronto shul shooting bat mitzvah film
Sandler, Idina Menzel and SNL actor Sarah Sherman get friendly with the rabbis, Beth Tzedec’s Steven Wernick and Robyn Fryer Bodzin
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: Members of USY celebrating at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's 2015 convention. (Andrew Langdal via JTA)
May 3, 2019, 10:15 am
Cash-strapped US Conservative Judaism movement laying off staff
Cutbacks at movement’s umbrella organization said to be part of a long-term plan for financial rehabilitation
By Marcy Oster
Rabbi Dov Haiyun in Jerusalem on July 19, 2018 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 21, 2018, 8:31 am
Rabbi’s arrest signals Israel ‘no longer for all Jews’ — US Conservative leader
Steven Wernick says ‘infuriating’ detention of Dov Haiyun for performing weddings outside Rabbinate ‘gives the impression of a religious police’
By Eric Cortellessa
Rabbi Dov Haiyun in Jerusalem on July 19, 2018 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 20, 2018, 2:57 am
Israel’s detention of Conservative rabbi castigated by mainstream US Jewry
Umbrella group of Conservative rabbis calls pre-dawn move to question Dov Haiyun over weddings ‘outrageous,’ federations protest Israel’s lack of commitment to non-Orthodox streams
By Joshua Davidovich
Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, attends a meeting at the United Nations in New York City, March 27, 2018. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)
April 29, 2018, 9:06 pm
Palestinians must make peace or shut up, Saudi crown prince said to tell US Jews
Israel’s Channel 10 news: In meeting last month in New York, Mohammed bin Salman castigated Abbas and predecessors for spurning opportunities for 40 years
By ToI Staff
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York on March 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)
March 29, 2018, 8:26 pm
Saudi crown prince meets with rabbis in New York
Mohammed bin Salman talks to Catholic, Jewish leaders in interfaith dialogue meant to demonstrate ‘common bond among all people’
By ToI Staff
Jules Gutin (Screen capture: YouTube)
December 18, 2017, 11:40 pm
Conservative youth group cuts ties with ex-head accused of sexual misconduct
Jules Gutin denies allegations, which the CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism says ‘were wide ranging and all inappropriate’
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Some 800 teens attended the annual United Synagogue Youth international conference in 2014 in Atlanta. (courtesy)
November 28, 2017, 3:03 am
US Conservative movement launches hotline for reporting sexual impropriety
Move comes in response to allegation by former member of its youth movement that he was molested by a senior staff member in the 1980s
By Josefin Dolsten
Lawmakers argue during a meeting of the Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee on November 1, 2017. (Screen capture/Knesset Channel)
November 1, 2017, 8:27 pm
MKs, Diaspora leaders quarrel in Knesset meeting on Western Wall deal
Justifying objections to a pluralistic prayer space, Shas MK Malchieli says there are certain places that ‘you don’t enter with dogs’
By ToI Staff
Minister Tzachi Hanegbi addresses the Jewish Agency Board of Governors at the 'Ezrat Yisrael' prayer platform at the Western Wall, October 30, 2017 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
October 30, 2017, 6:05 pm
Israel insists it won’t fully implement Western Wall egalitarian prayer deal
Addressing Jewish Agency at pluralistic prayer platform, Tzachi Hanegbi vows to improve the site’s appearance but rejects Diaspora Jewry’s key demands
By Raphael Ahren
Members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements hold torah scrolls during mixed men and women's prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 11, 2017, 7:10 pm
600 Conservative rabbis, leaders demand Netanyahu honor Western Wall deal
In letter to PM, denomination heads call on Israel ‘to embrace Jewish pluralism,’ end Orthodox rabbinate’s monopoly on religious issues
By JTA
US President Donald Trump arrives to announce his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Accords, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2017. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)
July 7, 2017, 11:38 pm
140 Jewish leaders vow to help US reach Paris climate accord goals
Open letter calls on ‘organized and powerful American Jewish community’ to respond to climate crisis
By JTA
Rabbi Dr. Amy Wallk Katz (left) leads as Rabbi Steven Wernick (far right), CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, prays at the Western Wall plaza, in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 7, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 6, 2017, 1:05 pm
‘Betrayed’ by freeze, Conservative head vows fight for Western Wall deal he never sought
Rabbi Steven Wernick says Netanyahu recruited progressive Jews to find a compromise for the holy site; now that the PM has reneged, world Jewry won’t be silent
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and members of the Women of the Wall carry Torah scrolls during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 25, 2017, 9:29 pm
US liberal Jews decry ‘slap in the face’ from Netanyahu on Western Wall prayer
Conservative and Reform leaders may not be surprised by the latest development – years of experience have taught them better – but the sense of betrayal is powerful, and they’re determined to fight
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rabbi Steven Wernick, CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. (Mike Diamond Photography)
January 28, 2017, 12:24 am
Conservative movement proposes allowing non-Jews as synagogue members
Congregations to vote in March on measure aimed to address issue of rising number of interfaith families
By Ben Sales
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