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	Conservative Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Conservative Judaism (or Masorti Judaism) is a denomination of Judaism characterized by:
		Conservative Judaism is a unified movement; the international body of Conservative rabbis is the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the organization of synagogues is the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), and the primary seminary and cantorial school is the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) in New York City.
		Positive-Historical Judaism, the intellectual forerunner to Conservative Judaism, was developed as a school of thought in 1850s Germany by a number of thinkers, including Rabbi Zecharias Frankel.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Conservative_Judaism (2375 words)

	Judaism
		Judaism is a complex combination of a religion and a non-exclusive ethnic group.
		This attitude may reflect growing Gentile interest in Judaism (some Greeks and Romans considered the Jews a most "philosophical" people because of their belief in a God that cannot be represented visually), and growing Jewish interest in Greek philosophy, which sought to establish universal truths.
		Reform Judaism (outside of the USA also known as Progressive Judaism, and in the U.K. as Liberal Judaism) originally formed in Germany as a reaction to traditional Judaism, stresses integration with society and a personal interpretation of the Torah.
	www.nelsal.com /judaism.htm (1683 words)

	Judaism : history, art and culture
		Orthodox Judaism holds that the Torah was written by God and Moses, and that the original laws within it are binding and unchanging.
		The Role of the cantor in Judaism discusses the role of the cantor (hazzan) as an emissary of the congregation.
		Some of the reasons for the rejection of Hasidic Judaism were the overwhelming exuberance of Hasidic worship; their untraditional ascriptions of infallibility and alleged miracle-working to their leaders, and the concern that it might become a messianic sect.
	www.onelittleangel.com /wisdom/art/religious.asp?mc=26 (3503 words)

	Conservative Judaism - InformationBlast
		Like Orthodox Judaism and Reform Judaism, the Conservative movement developed in Europe and the United States in the 1800s, as Jews reacted to the changes brought about by the Enlightenment and emancipation.
		Frankel rejected the positions taken by both those in Orthodox Judaism and in Reform Judaism as deviations from traditional Judaism.
		Conservative Judaism affirms that halakha (Jewish law and tradition) is not just a good idea, it's the law.
	www.informationblast.com /Conservative_Judaism.html (2157 words)

	Rabbi's Sermons
		Judaism practiced in Ethiopia is different from Judaism as we know it.
		Judaism in Ethiopia was based solely on the Bible whereas our Judaism is based on interpretations of the torah found in the Mishneh, the Talmud and the Shulkhan Arukh.
		The Masorti Movement is reaching out especially to the million Jews who have come from the former Soviet Union in the past two decades.
	www.thewjc.org /sermons/outreach.htm (1154 words)

	Masorti - Related Institutions
		Mercaz Shiluv is the Masorti educational center in the Negev, stressing Judaism’s pluralistic and egalitarian nature in a variety of programming for all age groups.
		Masorti CZ is the organization of Masorti Judaism in the Czech Republic.
		Masorti Travel Bureau is the official travel entity of the Masorti Movement, organizing innovative, creative and exciting tour programs to show you Israel, with the insiders' edge.
	www.masorti.org /related.html (904 words)

	Conservative Judaism - Medical News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Conservative Judaism is a unified movement; its international body of Conservative rabbis is the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), their body of synagogues is the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), and the primary seminary and cantorial school is the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS).
		Positive-Historical Judaism, the intellectual fore-runner to Conservative Judaism, developed as a school of thought in 1850s Germany by a number of thinkers, including Rabbi Zecharias Frankel.
		Conservative Judaism holds that both Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism have made major breaks with the historic definition of Judaism, both by their rejection of Jewish law and tradition as normative, and by their unilateral acts in creating a separate definition of Jewishness (i.e.
	www.medical-news.info /co/conservative-judaism.html (1854 words)

	Tnuat Am - Spring 2003 newsletter
		Masorti today is a deep-rooted national organization speaking to Israelis in their own language.
		Masorti wishes to reinforce its message amongst Conservative Jews and offer them an appropriate channel for showing their support for Israel and playing a roll in fashioning the character of the Jewish State.
		On the contrary and particularly in these times of national difficulty, ensuring the strength and viability of Masorti Judaism in Israel is in the interest of Israeli society and a direct contribution to the well-being of Klal Yisrael.
	www.mercazusa.org /newsltr_tnuat/spring03_tnuat/securing_israel's_strength.htm (683 words)

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		Masorti is traditional Judaism practised in a spirit of open minded enquiry and tolerance.
		Masorti Judaism accepts the binding force of Jewish law, and understands that it has developed throughout history.
		Masorti Matters, our in-house newsletter keeps our members in touch with events in our communities and with developments in the wider Jewish world which have a bearing on Masorti Judaism.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /d.silverne/page10.html (273 words)

	Judaism FAQs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Its 1913 constitution states that one of its purposes is "to preserve in the [prayer] service the reference to Israel's past and hopes for Israel's restoration." From 1917 on, the annual reports of the United Synagogue always featured the Zionist cause.
		Without being a theocracy, Israel should reflect the highest religious and moral values of Judaism and be saturated with Jewish living to the fullest extent possible in a free society.
		Masorti Rabbis hold that responsa by both the CJLS as well as the Va'ad Halacha are valid.
	groups.msn.com /judaismfaqs/israelzionismandthemasortimovement.msnw (1137 words)

	Haskallah - Jewish Community in Czech Republic :News
		Another woman, studying Judaism as part of her university studies, was attracted to the faith, studied more, and chose to become an integral part of the Jewish community.
		Their work has shown the young generation in Poland and Czech Republic that Masorti Judaism is tolerant and democratic, balances tradition with change, and is committed to halachah.
		Masorti Judaism is privileged to welcome these thirty-seven dedicated, committed Jews who have much to contribute to the Jewish communities in Prague and Wroclaw.
	www.haskallah.org /news_cz.html (797 words)

	soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Who We Are (2/12) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Orthodox Theology Orthodox Judaism views itself as the continuation of the beliefs and practices of normative Judaism, as accepted by the Jewish nation at Mt. Sinai and codified in successive generations in an ongoing process that continues to this day.
		Humanistic Judaism acknowledges that it is possible to integrate knowledge of and respect for other beliefs into the education of a child being raised in Humanistic Judaism, without confusing or intermingling distinct and different religious traditions, and without mixing or compromising the child's identification with Judaism.
		Judaism is a civilization, in which religion is one of its many dimensions.
	omicron.felk.cvut.cz /FAQ/articles/a123.html (11579 words)

	Beth David Synagogue - Masorti
		Judaism that is rooted in tradition, yet open, enlightened, tolerant and pluralistic - Masorti Judaism.
		The RA undertaking is part of a larger campaign presented by Hammer to the Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism, at the beginning of February.
		Prior to joining Masorti, she was the Project Manager of Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community, the first initiative of The Trust for Jewish Philanthropy.
	www.uscj.org /seabd/bethdavid/masorti.htm (1969 words)

	PLURALISM IN THE JEWISH STATE
		Masorti is the Hebrew word for "traditional" that was assigned to Israel's Conservative stream in the early 1980s.
		Shilo and her husband decided that Tali, now part of the public school system but affiliated with Masorti and Reform Judaism, "was a great opportunity" to expose their children to Judaism while "it wouldn't force us to do things we can't do," she says.
		For one thing, she is impatient with Reform Judaism's requirement of a year of Jewish learning prior to a bar mitzvah and its push for families to attend synagogue every Shabbat in that year.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/961206/plural.html (1394 words)

	Sharing Conservative/Masorti Judaism's "Best Keep Secret"
		Masorti Judaism is the mainstream (largest Movement) in Argentine Jewry, and is a central religious address in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba and many other Latin American countries.
		Masorti Olami's active and indispensable partner in its Israel and Hebrew oriented agenda is MERCAZ Olami, with both organizations working in close cooperation with the Masorti Movement in Israel.
		Masorti Olami partners with the educational efforts of Midreshet Yerushalayim (an arm of the Schechter Institute) to create supplemental and full day school options, as well as family education and new kehillot in the Ukraine.
	www.masortiworld.org /top-secrets.htm (797 words)

	New American Jewish Committee Publication Looks At Masorti Judaism In Israel
		The vast majority of Israelis had been stripped of their Judaism by two factors absent in America: the state was founded in rebellion against the Judaism of Eastern Europe, and the resurgence of ultra-Orthodoxy had reinvigorated an anti-religious animus among the secular population.
		In looking to the future of Masorti Judaism, the publication stresses that it is not government policy as much as public attitudes that create obstacles to Conservative Judaism in Israel.
		Though a willingness exists within the Masorti ranks to work together with Reform on cooperative ventures, there is persistent Masorti resistance to amalgamation of the two movements.The main stumbling block to religious union is reform Judaism's rejection of Jewish law in favor of individual choice.
	www.charitywire.com /charity11/00459.html (1141 words)

	Soc Culture Jewish Conservative/Masorti Judaism Reading List: Conservative Beliefs
		Covers the development of Judaism from the time of the Torah to enlightenment, and discusses the theology and philosophy of the Jewish movements that developed in response to the modern age.
		Themes include the problems of doubts and faith; What Judaism means by teaching that God is One; The essence of man and the problem of man's needs; The definition of religion in general, and of Judaism in specific, man's yearning for spirituality; Judaism as a pattern for life, and a study of piety.]
		Most of the responsa and articles in this set were previously published in either the annual "Proceedings of the Rabbinical Assembly", the journal "Conservative Judaism", and similar venues, all of which unfortunately had an extremely limited distribution, and have not been readily available.
	www.shamash.org /lists/scj-faq/HTML/rl/jcu-belief.html (1574 words)

	Conservative Responsa in Israel - Masorti Responsa - Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies - SIJS
		The name was chosen because the Masorti Movement fosters the practice of traditional Judaism among Israeli men and women while embracing modernity.
		It is affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and helps to preserve and enhance the traditions of Judaism.
		The mission of the Conservative Yeshiva is the same mission that has served yeshivot throughout thousands of years of Jewish history: to provide a community in which committed students and teachers can grow together in the service of God through common prayer, aid to the needy, and, most importantly, study of Torah.
	www.responsafortoday.com /eng_links.htm (586 words)

	Conservative Judaism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Like Orthodox Judaism and Reform Judaism, the Conservative movement developed in Europe and the United States in the 1800s, as Jews reacted to the changes brought about by the The EnlightenmentEnlightenment and emancipation.
		However to many in Orthodox JudaismOrthodoxy, Frankel's openness to modern methods of historical scholarship put him beyond the pale of Orthodoxy, and he was thus associated with the more radical Reform JudaismReform movement/.
		Conservative Jews believe that movements to its left, such as Reform JudaismReform and Reconstructionist Judaism, have erred by rejecting the traditional authority of HalakhaJewish law and tradition.
	www.infothis.com /find/Conservative_Judaism (2578 words)

	Religious Councils Bill - Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism - 1/27/99 - Temple Beth Am - Margate Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism, representing 3 million Jews throughout the world affiliated with the Conservative/Masorti Movement, is bitterly disapppointed that the Knesset has passed the Religious Councils Bill.
		This law, which had been rejected by the Knesset Law Committee, is a pernicious attempt to delegitimize our Movement and is an insult to the integrity of Jews everywhere who do not identify themselves with Orthodoxy.
		The intent of the law is not only to keep duly elected Masorti and Reform representatives from taking their rightful places on Religious Councils as mandated by the High Court, but to prevent our Movement from serving the growing hunger for religious choices in Israel.
	www.beth-am.org /index2.cfm?page=400 (935 words)

	UJ - University of Judaism
		– Founded in 1886, JTS is a center for the academic study of Judaism offering programs in rabbinic ordinations, cantorial training, masters and doctoral programs, and an undergraduate college. Its auxiliary programs include a supplementary high school program (Prozdor), Ramah Camps and The Jewish Museum.
		The name Masorti, which in Hebrew means traditional, was chosen because the Movement fosters the practice of traditional Judaism among Israeli men and women while embracing modernity.
		It also acts as force for supporting religious pluralism and funding for Masorti movement programs in Israel and throughout the world.
	www.uj.edu /Content/ContentUnit.asp?CID=259&u=806&t=0 (600 words)

	j. - Non-Orthodox being forced into a corner in Israel
		For the sake of their two young children, however, they live in a neighborhood with a Tali school, part of a network founded by the Conservative, or Masorti ("traditional"), movement.
		Her openness to non-Orthodox Judaism may reflect a new trend as more and more non-Orthodox Israelis -- some 85 percent -- talk of a search for Jewish meaning.
		The elections "put the non-dati [non-Orthodox] community in a corner where it can no longer leave Judaism and Jewish culture to the Orthodox to decide," she adds.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/4461/format/html/displaystory.html (1486 words)

	Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies - SIJS
		Masorti Olami (World Council of Conservative/Masorti Synagogues) now has an exciting new web site which gives excellent information on what is going on in the Masorti Movement around the world.
		MERCAZ USA is the Zionist Organization of the Conservative Movement, the voice of Conservative Jewry within the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency for Israel, the American Zionist Movement and the Jewish National Fund to support religious pluralism in Israel and strengthen the connection between Israel and the Diaspora.
		Through volunteer programs and projects geared toward education, religious observance, Israel, and public policy and advocacy, members expand their knowledge and commitment to Judaism, participate in contemporary issues, and support Jewish ideals worldwide.
	www.schechter.edu /links.htm (717 words)

	Question 2.3: What is Conservative Judaism?
		Answer: Conservative Judaism attempts to combine a positive attitude toward modern culture, acceptance of critical secular scholarship regarding Judaism's sacred texts, and also commitment to Jewish observance.
		Also worth exploring is the home page for the [7]United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism (UCSJ) <[8]http://www.uscj.org>.
		Another source of information is the [9]Conservative and Masorti Judaism FAQs ([10]http://communities.msn.com/JudaismFAQsandnaventryid=114).* [*: This source is controversial on soc.culture.jewish.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/judaism/FAQ/02-Who-We-Are/section-4.html (1120 words)

	Conservative - Conservative Judaism
		The mission of Women's League for Conservative Judaism is to strengthen and unite synagogue women's groups and their members; support them in mutual efforts to understand and perpetuate Conservative / Masorti Judaism in the home, synagogue and community; and reinforce their bonds with Israel and with Jews worldwide.
		Sects or denominations of Judaism are referred to as movements. This page discusses Jewish movements of the past and present in the US, Israel and the UK.
		Judaism Today by Rabbi Seymour Rossel--a simple guide to modern Judaism: its customs and ceremonies, tradition, major modern movements, and history.
	www.conservativethink.com /conservativejudaism (1025 words)

	WUPJnews - issue 46 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At least some of the increase is being attributed to an unprecedented ad campaign undertaken in conjunction with Israel's Masorti (Conservative) Movement just prior to the holidays.
		Thirty-six percent said that of all Jewish streams, they identified most with Progressive Judaism; 24% said they identified most with Orthodoxy and 11% with Masorti Judaism, while an additional 24% said they identified with no particular stream.
		NEW MOSCOW CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM: Ceremonies were held in Moscow on September 5 to mark the dedication of a newly rented facility to serve the World Union, its Institute for Modern Jewish Studies, and a newly formed Progressive congregation.
	wupj.org /news/archive/back_issues/issue46.html (1283 words)

	Jewish Links on the Web
		The purpose of clickonJudaism is to provide doorways into Judaism for Jews in their 20's and 30's, as well as those considering Judaism.
		Our hope is to enable young Jews to explore the possibilities offered by liberal Judaism through points of interest and concern to them.
		Kaufmann Kohler and the Rise of Reform Judaism in America
	www.adath-shalom.ca /jewish_links.htm (1159 words)

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