New Educational Programs for Yom HaAtzmaut: In honor of Israel’s 62nd anniversary, MERCAZ USA is proud to announce the publication of “Across the Aisle”, a dramatization of Zionist issues. Produced in cooperation with the American Zionist Movement, the program is ideal for use in synagogue services, high school and adult education classrooms. Click here for the new script by […]
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(Pictured: Rabbi Andrew Sacks) In 1965 Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, the great Jewish thinker, went to Selma, Alabama, to march with Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for civil rights. Someone marching alongside him questioned why such an eminent scholar would come to Selma instead of remaining in his ivory tower in New York. […]
Kotel- Western Wall Monday, Feb. 15, 2010 As the old expression says that it’s easier to light a fire than to extinguish one. I was in the eye of the storm at the Kotel this morning. From my side of the mechitza (dividing wall between the men and women at the Western Wall), I witnessed […]
Mishanichnas Adar marbim b’simcha by Judy Dvorak Gray Hodesh Adar 5770 (Feb. 15, 2010) I never cried before at the Kotel. I know that the Kotel represents a long continuous link to our history and is the symbol of Jerusalem and Israel for Jews around the world. I would sometimes accompany family, friends or youth […]
MERCAZ Olami representative on the KKL-JNF Board of Directors, Dr. Orr Karassin, reports from the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Click here to read Dr. Karassin’s reports and other articles from the press.
Highlights of the newsletter include: MERCAZ USA MISSION TO ISRAEL A review of the trip, including visits to Zichron Yaakov, Kibbutz Hannaton and Ramot Zion Synagogue in French Hill, Jerusalem VAAD HA’POEL AND JEWISH AGENCY MEETINGS These were very important meetings for a variety of reasons: Natan Sharansky was elected Chairperson of the Jewish […]
366 olim chadashim from North America arrived at 8am on a chartered El Al flight to Ben Gurion Airport. Among the arrivals were Shira and Boaz Gura and their three children, Ayala, Eitan and Avichai, who will be settling in Kibbutz Hannaton. They are part of the special “Go North” project of Nefesh B’nefesh, encouraging […]
We have just completed 10 busy days at meetings of the Zionist General Council (ZGC) of the World Zionist Organization (WZO), Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael (KKL), the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) Assembly and its Board of Governors. As members of MERCAZ Olami and Masorti Olami we gathered from Israel, North and South America and Europe. […]
An Update on MERCAZ and Masorti Olami within the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency For weeks now in Israel, everything has been postponed until “after the chagim.” For those who tend to procrastinate, it is a delightful season; for those who are sticklers for timetables, it is a nightmare. For everyone else, well, it’s […]