(This piece was originally published in Kol HaKehilah, the Kol Nefesh Masorti magazine, in September 2015) Anyone who has translated from Hebrew to English knows that there are often a multitude of possible English meanings for a given He...
René Cassin was born in 1887 to a Sephardi Jewish family in the South of France. A distant relative of Alfred Dreyfus, whose trial for treason electrified the world from 1894-1906, Cassin was always mindful of the potential for abuses of...
The main forum in which halachic decisions are made in the World Conservative (Masorti) Movement is the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) of the Rabbinical Assembly. When new issues arise in contemporary life, Rabbis turn to th...
