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Masorti and movement
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 Conservative-Masorti movement is unified on a global level by Masorti Olami, representing affiliated congregations in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
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.
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.
This term, as commonly used, has nothing to do with the official Masorti ( Conservative ) movement.
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.
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.
The Masorti movement created MERCAZ, a Zionist party within the structure of the World Zionist Organization.
The Masorti movement sponsors youth groups, an overnight camp, a system of day camps ( Camp Ramah ), Kibbutz Hannaton and the Hannaton Education Center, Moshav Shorashim, and special programs teaching new olim ( immigrants ) basic Judaism.
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.
In Britain today, the Masorti movement has twelve congregations, all of which are affiliated to the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues.
The main difference between the Orthodox Jews of Britain and the newly founded Masorti movement was and still is a theological one: it concerns the authority of the Torah.
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.
Emanuel Synagogue is the birthplace of the Masorti movement in Australia.

Masorti and Israel
The first Masorti communities in the State of Israel were founded in 1979 by North American olim.
* 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.
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.
* The Masorti Movement in Israel
Israeli Masorti Movement and Rabbinical Assembly of Israel.
Israeli Masorti Movement and Rabbinical Assembly of 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.

Masorti and on
The head of the Israeli Masorti movement's Vaad Halakha ( equivalent to the CJLS ), Rabbi David Golinkin, wrote the CJLS protesting its reconsideration of the traditional ban on homosexual conduct.
Masorti Olami ( also known as The World Council of Conservative / Masorti Synagogues ) builds, renews and strengthens Jewish life throughout the world, with efforts that focus on existing and developing communities in Europe, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Modern day vaads in Conservative Judaism include the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, and the Masorti movement's Vaad Halakha.
A similar stance was taken by Sacks and his Beth Din when they prevented the retired Rabbi Louis Jacobs, who had helped establish the British branch of the Masorti movement, from being called up for the Reading of the Torah on the Saturday before his grand-daughter's wedding.
There are ultra-Orthodox Haredim in a few yeshivot, Lubavitch focused on religious education, modern orthodox in Paris ( synagogue of Montevideo street and Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue ), consistorian Jews who are the majority following the grand rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim ( elected for seven years on 22 June 2008 ), Masorti Jews present in Paris and following the rabbi Rivon Krygier, and other smaller groups.

Masorti and Jewish
* 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.
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.
Noam, the Zionist Youth Movement of the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues, is amongst the most successful Jewish Youth organisations in the UK.
* Masorti and Conservative Jewish responsa
Still used in the Modern Orthodox Jewish community, and for a time in some Conservative Jewish and Masorti synagogues.
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.
Since the founding of the New London Synagogue, Jacobs and the Masorti movement were subject to hostility from Orthodox British Jewish institutions.
Jewish services are now held again in the New Synagogue ; the congregation is the Berlin community's sole Masorti synagogue.

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