Masorti

Masorti (Hebrew מסורת, "traditional" ) is the common name for the Israel referred to in the U.S. and Canada Conservative Judaism denomination of Judaism. She reached in the 1970s in Israel, stay the immigration American Jews, especially rabbis, who belonged to the conservative direction of Judaism.

The well 60 Masorti congregations with a total of around 50,000 members (as of 2012) are united in the 1979 founded Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel ( התנועה המסורית, " Masorti Movement" ). 1984, the Seminary for Judaic Studies ( Beit Midrash ) was built in Jerusalem, are formed in the Israelis as Masorti rabbis and teachers. In addition, there since the 1970s, the youth movement NOAM ( Noar Masorti ) and the Tali schools. As early as 1962 the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS ) had opened a campus in Jerusalem. 1984, the kibbutz was founded Hanaton.

The common name in Israel Masor ( a) ti, plural Masor ( a) tiim ( מסורתיים ) for traditionalist, but not strictly Orthodox Jews, who make up about one third of the population, however, has nothing to do with the movement of the Masorti communities.

In the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, the Masorti communities in Latin America, Australia and Europe - particularly in the UK, in some cases also in Germany - established. They are organized in the International Organization for Masorti communities Masorti Olami.

In Israel, where Orthodox Judaism is the state religion and only Orthodox rabbis are paid by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, and rabbis of the non-Orthodox direction by the State may be paid since 2012 to a limited extent, but not by religion but by culture - and Sports Ministry.