The Conservative-Masorti movement is unified on a global level by Masorti Olami, representing affiliated congregations in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Masorti Olami unites a number of smaller national and regional organizations, including:

Originally established as a Reform synagogue in 1938 ( then called Temple Emanuel ) Emanuel Synagogue is now a very large, explicitly pluralist congregation affiliated to Masorti Olami as well as the Progressive and Renewal movements.

Kehilat Nitzan is affiliated with Masorti Olami, the World Council of Conservative Congregations.

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.

* Masorti Olami

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.

Conservative Judaism ( also known as Masorti Judaism outside of the United States and Canada ) is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s.

The Masorti Movement's Israeli seminar also rejected a change in its view of the status of homosexual conduct, stating that " Jewish law has traditionally prohibited homosexuality.

Conservative responsa are the body of responsa literature of Conservative Judaism ( also known as Masorti Judaism ).

Louis Jacobs ( 17 July 1920, Manchester – 1 July 2006, 5 Tammuz 5766 in the Hebrew calendar, London ) was the founder of Masorti Judaism ( also known as Conservative Judaism ) in the United Kingdom, and a leading writer and theologian.

While holding the position of Rabbi at the New London Synagogue, Dr. Jacobs was also for many years Lecturer in Talmud and Zohar at the Leo Baeck College, a rabbinical college preparing students to serve as Masorti, Reform and Liberal rabbis in the UK and Europe.

Some Masorti synagogues ( e. g. in Europe and Israel ) also have a meḥitza or separate seating sections for men and women without a physical partition.

* Prior to ascending the Temple Mount by those Orthodox authorities who permit ascending the Temple mount ( and also by the Masorti movement in Israel ).

Later the ( Masorti ) New North London Synagogue also located there.

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 international association of Conservative / Masorti Rabbis is known as the Rabbinical Assembly ; the Cantors Assembly is the organization of chazanim.

The global youth movement is known as NOAM ( an acronym for No ' ar Masorti ); its North American chapter is called the United Synagogue Youth.

The Masorti movement did not establish a presence in the United Kingdom until much later and came about largely because of a series of incidents known colletively as the " Jacobs affair ": Rabbi Louis Jacobs, a leading scholar of Anglo Jewry, joined the faculty of the Jews College, leaving his post as Rabbi of the New West End Synagogue, under the impression that he would eventually be made principal.

* Conservative Judaism, known as Masorti outside the United States and Canada, is characterized by a commitment to traditional Jewish laws and customs, including observance of Shabbat and kashrut, a deliberately non-fundamentalist teaching of Jewish principles of faith, a positive attitude toward modern culture, and an acceptance of both traditional rabbinic and modern scholarship when considering Jewish religious texts.

This latter kind of non-observant Jews are, in Israel, mainly Mizrahi Jews who practice aspects of Judaism as a tradition ( known as Masortiyim, not to be confused with Conservative Judaism, which is sometimes called Masorti Judaism ).

The Masorti movement created MERCAZ, a Zionist party within the structure of the World Zionist Organization.

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.

* Conservative Jews in Israel: Official Masorti Movement website

This term, as commonly used, has nothing to do with the official Masorti ( Conservative ) movement.

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.

In 1979 JTS Chancellor Gerson Cohen announced the creation of the Masorti (" Traditional ") movement as Israel's own indigenous Conservative movement, with its own executive director, board and executive committee.

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

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.

The Masorti movement is sometimes somewhat more traditional than the U. S. Conservative movement and has not accepted a number of the U. S. movement's leniencies.

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.

There is a " Conservative Yeshivah " in Jerusalem, but this belongs to the American Conservative movement and not to the Israeli Masorti movement.

While approximately 90 % of American Conservative synagogues have adopted fully egalitarian practices, most British Masorti synagogues have retained a more traditional approach.

Although women chazaniyot ( cantors ) are common in North American Conservative synagogues, in 2006, Jaclyn Chernett became the first woman in the UK to be ordained as a chazan ( cantor ) in the British Masorti movement.

In 1999, Kehilat Nitzan, Melbourne's first Conservative ( Masorti ) Congregation was established, with foundation president Prof John Rosenberg.

In 2010 Beit Knesset Shalom became Brisbane's first Conservative ( Masorti ) Congregation.

In 2004, Masorti Judaism was introduced into the Netherlands by the founding of a Traditional / non-Egalitarian Masorti community in the town of Almere.

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.

A lit Yom HaShoah Yellow CandleIn 1981, members of the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs FJMC, a branch of the mainstream Conservative / Masorti movement, created a special memorial project specifically for Yom HaShoah.

* Responsa For Today a website containing teshuvot and other writings related to Conservative / Masorti Halacha edited by Rabbi Golinkin.

Keshet-Rabbis is an organization of Conservative / Masorti rabbis which holds that LGBT Jews should be embraced as full, open members of all Conservative / Masorti congregations and institutions, cofounded in 2003 by Rabbi Menachem Creditor.

The organization was established in order to connect gay-friendly Conservative rabbis with one another, to serve as a collective voice of gay-friendly Conservative rabbis, and to offer a point of contact for Conservative / Masorti Jews who are themselves LGBT or who care about LGBT issues.