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...
Every Jew is called to a dual task – to fashion hi/her life as an expression of the age-old covenant linking God and the Jewish people, and to express the dynamism of that covenant according to their own unique personality. Like those w...
