Connecting the Canadian Jewish Community with Israel
Lier la communauté juive canadienne à l’Israël
מחברים את הקהילה היהודית בקנדה לישראל
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MERCAZ-Canada will be taking part in Jewish Music Week in Toronto on Sunday, May 26th, 2024. (Lag B’Omer)
We will be hosting “The Afro-Semetic Experience,” a unique group of musicians who Nat Hentoff, of The Wall Street Journal, wrote “never before have I heard this lyrically powerful a fusion of Jewish and jazz souls on fire.”
Tickets are now available and we are also looking for generous sponsors, both private and corporate to help us make this even an incredible success. This is the first event in Jewish Music Week, so tickets will go quickly. We will be holding the concert at the Borochov, and have only 340 seats at the venue. This is an early announcement as JMW has not published their programme yet, so you have time to get tickets before the publicity hits.
More on the artists here: https://afrosemiticexperience.net/home
Tickets are available at EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-afro-semitic-experience-with-jewish-music-week-tickets-883330203417
AFTER THE CRISIS
Gadi Perl:
The war through my own eyes
Gadi Perl the MASORTI representative on the JNF Israel board where he serves as vice-chairman. In his private life, he is an attorney in Jerusalem who is also a PhD candidate at Hebrew University in CyberLaw research, focused on regulation of autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence.
The war erupted when Israel was led by a right-wing, nationalist religious coalition that had come to power after a campaign of incitement and hatred against Arabs. Our government was headed by a man preoccupied with his own political survival, who had weakened the public service and filled positions with yes-men. His coalition partners were either ultra-Orthodox parties, which believed their voters should be exempt from military service despite their right-wing worldview, or extreme right-wing religious parties with racist tendencies, led by individuals once suspected of nationalist terrorism against Arabs. As a liberal and a leftist, I would have preferred a different, saner government. But we did not choose to be in this situation.
The war also found us more divided than ever. Complacent about our enemy, we were engaged in internal debates over checks and balances in our democratic system. The liberal camp, to which I belong, had mobilized to block a government campaign aimed at weakening the courts and other safeguards.
To read the complete essay, https://mercaz.ca/gadi/
MERCAZ-Canada's President Stan Greenspan and Vice President Nola Lazar, were invited to the World Zionist Organzation's "The Jewish People Challenges: post-Oct 7th global leadership meeting" on February 27th – 28th" in Jerusalem.
The World Zionist Organzation's "The Jewish People Challenges: post-Oct 7th global leadership meeting" on February 27th – 28th" in Jerusalem.
Our Vice President, Nola Lazar, has written about the conference here.
Our President, Stan Greenspan, has written about a tour of Kibbutz Be'eri here.
Please watch the video below, "The opportunity to Re-Establish Israel" with Dr Micah Goodman. It's a thought provoking look at the challenges of post-2023 Israel.
REMEMBERING THE HOSTAGES
Each day that the hostages are still being held by Hamas, Masorti Israel has a Tekhet (ceremony) at the Hostage Square at the Tel Aviv Museum.
May all the hostages soon be released in good health and the hostilities end.
View this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xOLNDNM3pt8
NEW from the David Matlow Collection
75 TREASURES - CELEBRATING ISRAEL AT SEVENTY-FIVE
To celebrate Israel’s 75th birthday, our member, David Matlow of Toronto, Canada has selected 75 artifacts from his personal collection of Zionist and Herzl memorabilia and shared them in a new book, 75 Treasures: Celebrating Israel at Seventy-Five. The pages of the book are filled with photos and stories of these inspiring items, and the book challenges each of us to add our own page to Israel’s continuing story.
This 48-page publication contains many pieces from the world-renowned Matlow Collection that will help add context to the story of Israel's miraculous journey from concept to country.
The download is free.
https://herzlcollection.com/75-treasures
Introducing the Terumah Fund of the Canadian Foundation for Masorti Judaism
The “Terumah,” endowment's mission is to create a long-term resource to meet the challenges and needs of our Jewish community both at home and in Israel. Visit the page for details by clicking here!
Connecting the Canadian Jewish Community with Israel
Lier la communauté juive canadienne à l’Israël
מחברים את הקהילה היהודית בקנדה לישראל
Masorti Videos
The Masorti Movement is a pluralistic, religious movement in Israel, affiliated with Conservative Judaism. Its philosophy combines commitment to Jewish tradition and halachah (law) with an open and positive approach to the modern world, to democratic culture and to Zionism.
Visit the Masorti Video page on YouTube!
We have commissioned a limited edition commemorative "challenge coin" to mark this important event!
Reports on the 125th Zionist Congress may be found here.
2022 MERCAZ-Canada / FJMC Anshai Zafon Weekend Conference
We were joined by Dr. Yizhar Hess, Vice-Chair, WZO, and Shiran Yahav, Jewish Peoplehood & Israel-Diaspora relations at the World Zionist Organization.
MERCAZ-Canada and Canadian Foundation for Masorti Judaism work in cooperation to foster and strengthen Masorti/Conservative Judaism in Israel and create engagement opportunities Jews living in Israel and the Diaspora, based on the ideals of tradition and tolerance, study and spirituality, and social action and love of Israel.
MERCAZ represents Masorti Judaism within the World Zionist Organization and Congress, the Jewish Agency for Israel, and Jewish National Fund. We advocate for funding of pluralistic streams of Judaism in Israel crucial to our movement’s growth in Israel and around the world.
YOUR Voice in Israel
MERCAZ: the Movement to Reaffirm Conservative Zionism, is the Zionist voice of Conservative Judaism in Canada. A grassroots membership organization, we promote and support Israel education and programs, and represent the interests of Masorti/Conservative Judaism in the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency for Israel.
Together
MERCAZ-Canada and Canadian Foundation for Masorti Judaism work in cooperation to foster and strengthen Masorti/Conservative Judaism in Israel, based on the ideals of tradition and tolerance, study and spirituality, and social action and love of Israel. Encourage your youth to experience Israel through MERCAZ-Canada, USY and Ramah scholarships for Israel travel.
Masorti supports our movement
Canadian Foundation for Masorti Judaism supports our movement directly. CFMJ is committed to halakhah and history, combining Jewish law and tradition with an open approach to Jewish life. CFMJ supports the work of the Masorti Movement, raising funds to enable the Movement to further its educational and outreach activities in Israel.
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The Masorti Movement in Israel is a pluralistic, religious movement in Israel affiliated with Masorti/ Conservative Judaism around the world. The Canadian Foundation for Masorti Judaism supports the work of the Masorti Movement in Israel which promotes scholarship, Zionism and religious tolerance and pluralism within the context of modern Israeli society. The Foundation raises funds to support Masorti programmes in Israel through the Movement and in its synagogue centres. Your donation helps to ensure that our work may continue.
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