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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

Illustrative: A young woman sits alone (torwai; iStock by Getty Images)
March 10, 2023, 4:52 am
Probe into Conservative Jewish youth group finds ‘hypersexualized culture’
Inquiry following ToI exposé on decades-long abuse scandal identifies 41 alleged incidents of sexual misconduct by adults at USY, but concludes issues not systemic
By Jacob Magid and JTA
The Solomon Schechter Long Island in Williston Park, New York is grappling with an unfolding scandal being investigated by ToI (Courtesy SSLI Facebook page)
November 8, 2022, 10:38 pm
Jewish school head to leave after exposé showed scandal-hit staffer secretly kept on
2 months after ToI report on continued employment of man who ostensibly resigned in abuse scandal’s fallout, Schechter Long Island tells parents Scott Sokol has taken job elsewhere
By Jacob Magid
The Schechter School of Long Island's building in Williston Park, New York. (Schechter LI/Facebook)
September 7, 2022, 12:34 am
New York Jewish school secretly kept on staffer who ‘resigned’ over abuse scandal
Schechter principal, deputy directed creation of a corporation to keep paying student life director Mike Hirsch, who had also been written up for inappropriately touching students
By Jacob Magid
Ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffle with police as they protest members of the Women of the Wall movement bringing in Torah scrolls to their hold Rosh Hodesh service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on March 4, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 4, 2022, 7:49 pm
Thousands of Haredim try to stop egalitarian prayer at Western Wall, clash with cops
Officers prevent Reform, Conservative leaders from entering worship area with Torah scrolls, as thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators converge on holy site to disrupt them
By ToI Staff
Representatives of the Reform and Conservative movements of Judaism from North America and Israel stand outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem before a meeting on February 28, 2022. (Reform Movement in Israel)
February 28, 2022, 5:23 pm
PM meets Reform, Conservative leaders after 6-year hiatus under Netanyahu
Bennett vows to improve conditions at Western Wall prayer space; MK Alon Tal, who attended sit-down, says he’s optimistic about improving ties between Israel and progressive Jews
By Judah Ari Gross
A firefighter douses the flames in an Israeli car after it was allegedly set on fire by Jewish extremists in the West Bank near the outpost of Givat Ronen on January 21, 2022. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)
January 25, 2022, 4:04 pm
ADL, other Jewish groups denounce ‘ongoing terrorism’ by settler extremists
In letter to Bennett, Lapid and Gantz, organizations urge ‘unequivocal action’ to stop violence against Palestinians, other Israelis and IDF; note damage caused to ties with US
By JTA and Jacob Magid
The Conservative Movement's Rabbinical Assembly 2014 convention. (Screen capture/YouTube)
October 22, 2021, 12:40 am
Conservative movement publishes list of rabbis it has expelled or suspended
Rabbinical Assembly says move part of review of its handling of misconduct allegations; 9 listed, including rabbi arrested in Israel for performing non-Orthodox wedding
By Jacob Magid
Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) await a flight to Kabul Afghanistan, at Al Udeied Air Base, Qatar Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021 (1st Lt. Mark Andries/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)
August 19, 2021, 2:05 pm
Daily Briefing August 19 – How the Taliban takeover affects US ally Israel
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman looks at the Afghan situation and a diplomatic crisis with Poland; US correspondent Jacob Magid describes developments in a USY sexual abuse report
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo (iStock)
August 18, 2021, 5:30 pm
More victims, lawsuits and mounting anger at USY after ToI report alleging abuse
Conservative movement vows probe, suspends 2 staffers, as more alleged victims of longtime official surface; Jordan Soffer, 1st to speak out, says USY, USCJ haven’t contacted him
By Jacob Magid
Jordan Soffer. (Courtesy)
August 12, 2021, 3:39 pm
Eye on statute of limitations, alleged victim of US youth group leader speaks up
Rabbi Jordan Soffer demands USY, the Conservative movement’s youth branch, explain why it turned blind eye to abuser for years, later allowed his employment as a synagogue director
By Jacob Magid
Members of the Armenian community march with flags and torches on April 23, 2015, in Jerusalem's Old City, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)
December 13, 2019, 2:52 am
Why some US Jewish groups now recognize the Armenian genocide, and others don’t
Jewish officials have historically withheld recognition to protect Israel-Turkish relations and Turkish Jews; Ankara’s current regime has changed that
By Eric Cortellessa
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
Otzma Yehudit members Michael Ben Ari (L), Baruch Marzel (C) and Benzi Gopstein protest at the entrance to the Al Jazeera offices in Jerusalem on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 25, 2019, 10:00 pm
Conservative Movement rips ‘dangerously radical’ Otzma Yehudit party
Rabbis warn against prospect of extremist faction joining coalition after elections, say they ‘hope and pray it returns to a place of irrelevance’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, taking questions from rabbis at a session for clergy at the Reform biennial in San Diego, Dec. 13, 2013. (photo credit: URJ via JTA)
October 23, 2018, 8:21 pm
Non-orthodox leaders downplay Netanyahu’s ‘back channel’ delegation of rabbis
PM said to fly in group of pro-government rabbis ahead of Jewish Federations General Assembly out of frustration with regular criticism from Reform and Conservative movements
By Ben Sales
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
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