* Conservative Jews in Israel: Official Masorti Movement website

Logo of the Masorti Movement in Israel.

The Masorti Movement is the name given to Conservative Judaism in Israel and other countries outside Canada and U. S. Masorti means " traditional " in Hebrew.

MERCAZ is the Zionist organization of the Conservative Movement, and represents Conservative / Masorti Jews the world over.

Noam, the Zionist Youth Movement of the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues, is amongst the most successful Jewish Youth organisations in the UK.

* The Masorti Movement ( in English )

* The Masorti Movement in Latinamerica ( in Spanish )

* The Masorti Movement in the UK

* The Masorti Movement in France ( in French )

* The Masorti Movement in the Netherlands ( in Dutch )

* Masorti Movement in Canada

Israeli Masorti Movement and Rabbinical Assembly of Israel.

Israeli Masorti Movement and Rabbinical Assembly of Israel.

The fund's grantees include the Adva Center, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Green Environment Fund, the Israel Religious Action Center, the Israel Women's Network, the Masorti Movement, the Forum for Freedom of Choice in Marriage, Adalah, Breaking the Silence, B ' Tselem, the Coalition for Affordable Housing, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Yesh Din, Kav LaOved, + 972 online magazine, and the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights.

Because of this potential for confusion, a number of Conservative Rabbis have proposed renaming the movement, and outside of the United States and Canada, in many countries including Israel and the UK, it is today known as Masorti Judaism ( Hebrew for " Traditional ").

The first Masorti communities in the State of Israel were founded in 1979 by North American olim.

The movement is supported by the Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel, an American organization that provides funding to Masorti programs, which are disadvantaged by the Israeli government's practice of funding only Orthodox institutions.

Meanwhile, Masorti synagogues in Europe and Israel, which have historically been somewhat more traditional than the American movement, continue to maintain a complete ban on homosexual conduct, clergy, and unions.

The Masorti movement in Israel adopts positions on subjects of Jewish Law independent of the Conservative movement in the United States, and the two movements sometimes take different positions.

For example, the Masorti movement in Israel rejected a decision by the Conservative movement in the United States permitting Jews living far from synagogues to drive to synagogue on Shabbat.

More than 135 kehillot ( communities ) are affiliated with Masorti Olami in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, Uruguay, the United Kingsom and the United States of America.

All of its activities are conducted within the context of the overall Conservative / Masorti movement, in close cooperation with its affiliated organizations in North America and Israel.

In light of the gathering of Jews of all ethnic groups back in the land of Israel, Masorti Jews, the Conservative movement in Israel, hold that all Jews living in Israel may safely abandon the minhag of refraining from kitniyot.

The law committee of the Masorti movement in Israel has issued two responsa ( a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars ) on the subject, both holding that Jews may visit the permitted sections of the Temple Mount.

The Halakha committee of the Masorti movement ( the equivalent of Conservative Judaism ) in Israel has ruled that women do not receive such aliyot and cannot perform such functions as a valid position ( Rabbi Robert Harris, 5748 ).

" Since that time the Conservative movement and the Masorti movement ( in Israel ) have addressed this issue in a serious way.

Thanks to the Harlows ' assistance in cooperation with Masorti Olami, the Bnei Anusim of Lisbon have been able to return to the Jewish faith, and a new congregation ( Kehilat Beit Israel ) has been founded in Lisbon, namely the first non-orthodox synagogue in the history of Portugal.

The Masorti ( Conservative Judaism ) movement in Israel has created Megillat HaShoah, a scroll and liturgical reading for Yom HaShoah, a joint project of Jewish leaders in Israel, the United States and Canada.

The dissenters were discontented with the general leftward trend in USCJ policies over the previous decades, such as " prayer book revision, egalitarianism, redefining halakhic boundaries of sexual relationships, and advocacy of Israel accepting conversions that are non-halakhic even by Conservative standards "., and the Union suggests that " The Conservative Movement thus appears to endorse the notion that changing societal norms can supersede the proper application of halakhic sources ".

* As a teenager, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was directly involved in the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement ( Nysvenska Rörelsen ) until at least 1948, causing tensions when IKEA began opening stores in Israel, although one source has claimed that the movement was not pro-Nazi.

Most notably, the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism has rejected patrilineal descent and requires formal conversion for anyone without a Jewish mother.

* Ha-Avodah Shebalev, The prayer book of The Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, Ed.

Flag of Israel, the flag was adopted as the symbol of the Zionist Movement in the 1890s.

Nasser became an influential leader in the Middle East in the 1950s, leading Arab states into war with Israel, becoming a major leader of the Non-Aligned Movement and promoting pan-Arab unification.

Much of the ensuing settlement was planned and financed by the Movement for Greater Israel.

Through the efforts of Rabbi Henry Cohen and Congregation B ' nai Israel, Galveston became the focus of an immigration plan called the Galveston Movement that, between 1907 and 1914, diverted roughly 10, 000 Eastern European, Jewish immigrants from the crowded cities of the Northeastern United States.

The Temple Mount and Eretz Yisrael ( Land of Israel ) Faithful Movement is an Orthodox Jewish movement, based in Jerusalem, Israel whose goal is to rebuild the Third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and re-institute the practice of ritual sacrifice.

The Movement was founded by former Israel Defence Forces officer and Middle Eastern studies lecturer Gershon Salomon.

* Efraim Karsh, " Resurrecting the Myth: Benny Morris, the Zionist Movement, and the ' Transfer ' Idea ", Israel Affairs, Vol.

* Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Musar Movement, Immanuel Etkes

* Magen David Adom ( Hebrew: מגן דוד אדום ‎, " Red Star of David "), the national aid organization of Israel and affiliate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

In later years, when Kook's name became associated with the Mizrachi, part of the Religious Zionist Movement, Hutner, an eventual member of the non-Zionist Haredi Agudath Israel of America's Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (" Council of Torah Sages "), sought to downplay his former association with Kook, even though he maintained cordial relations with Kook's son and heir Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook and other prominent students such as Rabbi Moshe-Zvi Neria.

Kaufman is a member of the Jewish Labour Movement, formerly Poale Zion, a socialist group with the Labour party in Britain, has become one of the leading critics of Israel.

* Peace Under Fire: Israel / Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement Edited by Josie Sandercock, Radhika Sainath, Marissa McLaughlin, Hussein Khalili, Nicholas Blincoe, Huwaida Arraf and Ghassan Andoni.

The Likud was formed by an alliance of several right wing parties prior to the 1973 elections ; Herut and the Liberal Party had been allied since 1965, and were joined by the Free Centre, the National List and the Movement for Greater Israel.

Initially the party was called Democrats-Shinui, but was soon changed to the Democratic Movement for Change and, as with many parties in Israel, became popularly known by its acronym, Dash.