ARZA

I will hear Parshat D’varim on Shabbat and Lamentations on Tuesday in Jerusalem. I am here to participate in the effort to stop the Rotem Conversion Bill from passing in the Knesset. How ironic it is that the bill was voted out of committee on the first of Av and will be brought for first reading just [...]

ARZA Executive Director Rabbi Daniel Allen and URJ Senior Vice President Rabbi Daniel Freelander report from Tel Aviv on a high-level meeting regarding the controversial Rotem conversion bill. Yesterday morning, Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, hosted a meeting of leaders of the Reform and Conservative movements, several Israeli government ministers, [...]