7/30/10
ADL director coming to Synagogue
At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 31, Nina Sundell, director of the Ohio/Kentucky/Allegheny region of the Anti-Defamation League, will speak in the Upper Social Hall about confronting anti-zionism and anti-Semitism on American campuses. The program is sponsored by the Men's Club of Congregation Tifereth Israel. Light refreshments will be provided. A donation of $5 per person is requested. RSVP by Aug. 27 to Men's Club President Bill Chronister at 614-563-3268 or wtchron@gmail.com.
7/2/10
The 36th World Zionist Congress addresses contemporary issues
(A report from FJMC):
In 1897 Theodore Herzl, the founder of the modern Zionist movement, gathered about 200 Jewish leaders from around the world in Basel, Switzerland, to discuss the condition of the Jewish people and to organize towards the creation of the Jewish state. On June 15-17, 2010, 113 years later, the 36th World Zionist Congress met in Jerusalem to renew Herzl’s vision and to address many of the issues facing world Jewry and the State of Israel today. This Congress, which meets in Israel every four years, is the closest thing to a World Jewish Parliament that exists.
One of the major organizations participating at the Congress was Mercaz Olami, the Zionist arm of the worldwide Masorti/Conservative Movement. North American Leaders of the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (the parent organization of Congregation Tifereth Israel's Men’s Club), Women’s League, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, and the rabbinic and cantors' assemblies were joined by representatives of Masorti/Conservative Movement groups from Israel and 15 other countries at the Congress.
Mercaz joined with the Israeli political party Kadima and other local groups to form a united faction to advocate for pluralism and egalitarianism in Israel, and to promote Zionist education and youth development worldwide.
Many proposed resolutions were reviewed, discussed, debated, argued about, and either approved or rejected. Among the successful resolutions approved at the Congress were:
-- From FJMC Vice President Myles Simpson
In 1897 Theodore Herzl, the founder of the modern Zionist movement, gathered about 200 Jewish leaders from around the world in Basel, Switzerland, to discuss the condition of the Jewish people and to organize towards the creation of the Jewish state. On June 15-17, 2010, 113 years later, the 36th World Zionist Congress met in Jerusalem to renew Herzl’s vision and to address many of the issues facing world Jewry and the State of Israel today. This Congress, which meets in Israel every four years, is the closest thing to a World Jewish Parliament that exists.
One of the major organizations participating at the Congress was Mercaz Olami, the Zionist arm of the worldwide Masorti/Conservative Movement. North American Leaders of the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (the parent organization of Congregation Tifereth Israel's Men’s Club), Women’s League, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, and the rabbinic and cantors' assemblies were joined by representatives of Masorti/Conservative Movement groups from Israel and 15 other countries at the Congress.
Mercaz joined with the Israeli political party Kadima and other local groups to form a united faction to advocate for pluralism and egalitarianism in Israel, and to promote Zionist education and youth development worldwide.
Many proposed resolutions were reviewed, discussed, debated, argued about, and either approved or rejected. Among the successful resolutions approved at the Congress were:
- To oppose the currently proposed changes in the Israeli conversion law that will both negate the Law of Return and prejudice the rights of Jewish communities to act, each in its own way, regarding the conversion process.
- Equal funding for all Jewish religious streams within the World Zionist Organization budget.
- Encourage the government of Israel to recognize all streams of Judaism and their right to perform marriages and conversion in Israel.
- Require that 30 percent of the membership in all WZO committees, boards and such be women.
- Support funding by the Jewish Agency of all youth streams in Israel.
-- From FJMC Vice President Myles Simpson
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