This commemorative edition of the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre is being posted in lieu of this week’s regular Tuesday edition. Horrors, Hostages and Heroes: First Anniversary of 10/7 Attacks BACKGROUND – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS – STORIES MAKING NEWS Hearts pounded with fear as sirens blared, rocket interceptions boomed across the sky as […]
The Day of T’ruah: 101 Calls of the Shofar “The teru’ah which the Torah mentions … — we do not know what it is: whether it resembles the wailing with which the women cry when they moan, or the sighs which a person who is distressed about a major matter will release repeatedly, or perhaps […]
Iran Attacks Israel Following Nasrallah Killing BACKGROUND – TALKING POINTS – FACTS – ACTIONS – 10/7 RESOURCES – STORIES Israel’s northern towns have been under a relentless barrage of deadly Hezbollah rockets, missiles and drones displacing more than 60,000 Israelis – the equivalent of 2 million Americans – for the last year. The attacks have displaced Israeli […]
Rabbi Hillel Skolnik, President, MERCAZ USA Dear Friends, As we usher in the very first moments of 5785, it will have been two weeks since we gathered together online for our General Council meeting which not only installed a new slate of officers, but challenged us with the question of the limits of our tent […]
The partner organizations of Conservative/Masorti Judaism wish you a sweet, happy, and peaceful New Year!
A shelter for the soul The Home Front Command urges us to properly prepare the shelters in our homes and in public places. They explain that it is a matter of saving lives—actual, physical lives. A shelter and the need to prepare it carefully it advance are not new. The Bible tells us about the […]
by Rabbi Alan Silverstein, PhD | President of Mercaz Olami (Representing the global Masorti/Conservative movement) After his death in 1915, Solomon Schechter’s legacy of Zionism continued through key members of the Jewish Theological Seminary faculty and through the stream of rabbinical school graduates. Conservative Movement historian Rabbi Simcha Kling noted: “Conservative Judaism was unique among the contemporary […]
by Rabbi Alan Silverstein, PhD | President of Mercaz Olami (Representing the global Masorti/Conservative movement) In “The Zionism of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1902-1948,” Dr. Naomi Cohen affirmed that Solomon Schechter’s “religious Zionism found a ready response among seminary students, many of whom were already Zionist sympathizers. The young men flocked to sermons and lectures […]
Iran and Hezbollah’s Escalating Conflict Against America and Israel BACKGROUND – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS – STORIES We value the feedback of our readers and invite you to please take 15 seconds to answer two questions about this week’s edition by clicking the image right below the Actions to Consider section. After enduring nearly a […]
MERCAZ USA General Council Meeting 2024 The MERCAZ USA General Council meeting took place on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 via Zoom. During the meeting, we discharged our outgoing board and installed our new leadership team. Please download the Report of the Nominating Committee to the Membership here. As part of our program, an important panel […]