This page contains two lists of links:
Conservative Movement Links and also Education Links.

Conservative Movement Links

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Cantors Assembly
Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs
Jewish Educators Assembly
Jewish Theological Seminary
(JYDA) Jewish Youth Directors Association
Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism
Masorti Olami (World Council of Conservative/Masorti Synagogues)
MERCAZ Olami
(NAASE) North American Association of Synagogue Executives
Rabbinical Assembly
Ramah Camping Movement
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Inc.
Seminario Rabinico Latinamericano
Women’s League for Conservative Judaism
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies

Nurturing Lay Leadership

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaismrepresents and supports the synagogues of the Conservative/Masorti movement in North America. The organization works with lay leaders and Jewish professionals on the national, regional, and grassroots levels. Its goal is to teach, inspire, and motivate Conservative Jews to live lives increasingly filled with Jewish learning, ethical behavior, spirituality, and mitzvot. Tel: 212-533-7800 — http://www.uscj.org
Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs is dedicated to involving Jewish Men in Jewish Life. By applying skills learned in their everyday lives and meeting the challenges that men and their families face daily, the FJMC empowers its members, so that the passionate voices of these laymen are heard in their communities and in the Conservative/Masorti Movement in North America and around the world. Tel: 212-749-8100 — http://www.fjmc.org
Ramah Camping Movement is the camping arm of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, operating seven overnight and three day camps in North America, as well as an extensive array of programs in Israel. Ramah overnight camps in California, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ontario serve over 5,000 campers each summer, as well as 1,500 staff members. The day camps in the New York metro area, Philadelphia and Chicago welcome over 1,000 campers and 400 staff. The Ramah experience combines the best of summer camping fun with exciting forms of informal Jewish education and Zionism, thus providing a powerful experience to transform the lives of campers and staff. Tel: 212-678-8881 — http://www.campramah.org
Women’s League for Conservative Judaism works as the umbrella organization of the women’s groups in the synagogues of the Conservative/Masorti Movement. Its mission is to strengthen and unite these groups; foster understanding of the traditions of Conservative/Masorti Judaism in the home, synagogue and community; and reinforce their bonds with Israel and Jews worldwide. These goals are accomplished through educational and administrative publications, conferences, and training services. Tel: 212-870-1260 — http://www.wlcj.org
Training Professional Leaders
Jewish Theological Seminary serves as the home of Conservative/Masorti Judaism. A Jewish university with a world-class faculty and a diverse student body, JTS grants undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees through its five schools and offers programs of enrichment for the Jewish community in the U.S., Canada, Israel and around the world. It features a renowned library with the most comprehensive Judaica and Hebraica research collection in the western hemisphere. Tel: 212-678-8000 — http://www.jtsa.edu
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Inc. is dedicated to the advancement of pluralistic Jewish education in Israel and Europe. Its Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies annually offers over 450 Israeli educators a fully accredited Masters Degree program. The Schechter Rabbinical Seminary trains rabbis as spiritual and educational leaders for Israel and the world. TALI Education Fund provides Jewish studies for 25,000 Israeli children in over 140 state schools and kindergartens from the Galilee to Eilat. Midreshet Yerushalayim conducts outreach activities for Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel and Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Tel: 215-830-1119 — http://www.Schechter.edu
Seminario Rabinico Latinamericano functions as the academic, cultural and religious center of the Conservative/Masorti Movement in Argentina and Latin America. It trains rabbis, cantors, educators, youth movement leaders and educates the laity. The Seminary’s main goal is to spread and perpetuate Judaism in Latin American communities. It has a library which is considered the most complete and updated in Jewish Sciences throughout Latin America, with approximately 50,000 volumes in Hebrew, English, Spanish, German, Yiddish French and Italian. http://www.seminariorabinico.org.ar
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies fosters a blend of academic rigor, emotional warmth and openness, traditional and innovative spirit in the service of God, Torah, and Israel. Ziegler fuses the methods and findings of the academic study of Judaism with the fervor and devotion of traditional study and observance. It focuses on the journey of each rabbinical student to produce extraordinary rabbis to lead the Jewish people in a renaissance of talmud Torah (learning), shmirat mitzvot (observance), and gemillut hesed (acts of social justice and personal compassion). Tel: 310-476-9777 — http://www.ajula.edu
Serving Congregations And Day Schools
Cantors Assembly is dedicated to the preservation of Jewish life, in all its splendor. The transmission of tradition through their roles as educator, cultural architect and religious exemplar is their foremost mission. Through their primary role as prayer leaders, members foster spiritual growth within our communities. Interactive within every arm of the Movement, and across denominational boundaries, they have influenced generations of Jewish adults and children. As one of the pillars of the Seminary, the Cantors Assembly has helped to guide the Conservative/Masorti Movement and is committed to maintaining the highest standards for its sacred calling. It is the largest organization of its kind in the world. Tel: 212-678-8834 — http://www.cantors.org
Jewish Educators Assembly insures excellence in Jewish education by serving and advancing the commitment and knowledge of all professionals who educate, teach and lead. The Assembly is a professional organization of a broad range of Heads of School, Educational Administrators and Academics who identify with the Conservative/Masorti Movement. Tel: 516-484-9585 — http://www.jewisheducators.org
(JYDA) Jewish Youth Directors Association provides conventions and workshops to train Youth Directors and Advisors in group work skills, Judaic knowledge and child development. The organization is dedicated to developing dynamic, creative and diverse programming. It is also committed to raising the consciousness of the general Jewish community to the importance of this profession. Tel: 704-944-6816 — http://www.jyda.org
(NAASE) North American Association of Synagogue Executives brings synagogue administrators together to foster the advancement of Conservative/Masorti Judaism, enhance development of their profession and stimulate interest in synagogue administration as a rewarding career. In dynamic partnership with the Movement’s other constituent elements, NAASE offers a variety of forums for synagogue executives to share their ideas and methodologies. The organization mentors the initiative while mining the skills of the experienced, and encourages all congregational executives to partner in shaping a vital Jewish community based within the evolving Conservative synagogue. Tel: 212-533-7800 Ext 2609 or 631-732-9461 — http://www.naase.org
Rabbinical Assembly promotes the cause of Conservative/Masorti Judaism and works unceasingly to benefit Klal Yisrael. As the international association of Conservative rabbis, the Assembly publishes learned texts, prayer books and works of Jewish interest. It also administers the work of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards for the Conservative/Masorti Movement. Members of the Assembly serve throughout the world, in congregations, as educators, hospital and military chaplains, teachers of Judaica, and officers of communal service organizations. Tel: 212-280-6000 — http://www.rabbinicalassembly.org
Building The International Community
Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel serves as the U.S. based fundraising arm of the Masorti Movement in Israel. The Foundation works to promote pluralism in Israel within the context of a meaningful traditional and spiritual environment. The Masorti Movement has approximately 50 kehillot throughout the country, a youth program which includes a Ramah/NOAM summer camp involving 600 to 700 young Israelis and outstanding, innovative programs such as the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Program for Children with Special Needs. During the course of a year, 75,000 Israelis are touched by Masorti Programming. American Office: 212-870-2216 — http://www.masorti.org Canadian Office: 416-667-1717 — mercaz-masorti@intrr.net
Masorti Olami (World Council of Conservative/Masorti Synagogues) includes more than 120 synagogues, 50+ full time congregational rabbis, many part-time rabbis, more than 10,000 members of NOAM (global youth movement), thousands of Ramah-style summer campers, more than a dozen day schools and dozens of supplemental schools for child and family learning. The organization serves tens of thousands of Conservative Judaism’s constituents throughout Latin America, Europe, the Former Soviet Union, Australia, Asia and Africa. It coordinates with JTS’ network of training institutions for rabbis/cantors/educators in Buenos Aires, Budapest, Moscow and Jerusalem. Tel: 212-678-5319 — http://www.masortiworld.org
MERCAZ Olami is the Zionist organization of the worldwide Conservative/Masorti Movement. It represents the Movement within the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Israel. MERCAZ OLAMI and its chapters throughout the world see Zionism as an invaluable tool for strengthening Jewish identity and combating assimilation. It seeks to expand religious pluralism in Israel and communal funding for Masorti Jewish institutions, and to link Jewish communities throughout the Diaspora with Israel through tourism, Jewish education, Hebrew language study, “people-to-people” partnerships, short-term and long-term Israel programs and Aliyah. MERCAZ Olami mercaz@masortiolami.org MERCAZ U.S. — 212-533-2061 — http://www.mercazusa.org MERCAZ Canada — 416-667-1881 — mercaz-masorti@intrr.net

The Conservative Movement’s Aliyah Committee established a new website when it launched the November is Link to Irsael Month project. The new site is www.linktoisrael.org

The Conservative/Masorti Movement represents the passionate and engaged center of the Jewish people. At home in both tradition and modernity, Conservative/Masorti Judaism strives in everything to express and communicate a deep commitment to the values, concepts, and rituals of our tradition. It is equally committed to the values of individual conscience, democracy, equal rights and protection for all humanity and other hallmarks of Western culture to enrich and deepen our lives as practicing Jews.

That tradition not only belongs in the synagogue and the home, but in business or the public marketplace of ideas. Conservative/Masorti Judaism seeks to integrate the best of tradition with the best of modernity. Conservative/Masorti Judaism does this because we believe that integrating the Jewish tradition with our own contemporary culture is the best way to create a vibrant and meaningful form of Judaism for ourselves and our descendants.

Conservative/Masorti Judaism meets these challenges through its institutions — synagogues, schools on all levels, camps, and its local, regional, and national organizational structures — and through the many religious, educational, social, social action and Zionist activities these institutions foster.

Through these organizations and activities it seeks to enable multiple points of entry to every Jew on all levels of Judaism — spiritual, rational, familial, communal, cultural, aesthetic, interfaith, political, Zionist and in many other ways across the life span. In doing so it espouses a sincere pluralism, with understanding and appreciation for the multiple ways that Jews express their Jewish commitments and contribute to the Jewish community and civilization. We invite any and all Jews to join us in making Judaism a significant part of their multi-dimensional lives.

Education Links

A number of educational sites offer information and resources that are useful to Solomon Schechter Day Schools.

	All Kinds of Minds All Kinds of Minds is a non-profit Institute that helps students who struggle with learning measurably improve their success in school and life by providing programs that integrate educational, scientific, and clinical expertise. www.allkindsofminds.org
	ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) ASCD is a community of educators, advocating sound policies and sharing best practices to achieve the success of each learner. ASCD publishes the journal Educational Leadership and offers institutes, conferences, books and professional development materials. www.ASCD.org
	ISACS (Independent Schools Association of the Central States) Membership organization for Midwestern independent schools offering membership and accreditation information, state-specific information on government regulations, listing of corporate sponsors and consultants, calendar of conferences in the region, annual statistics, school surveys, e-bulletins, online bookstore and links to other resources. www.isacs.org
	ISM (Independent School Management, Inc.) ISM provides resources for the management of independent schools through publications, workshops, conferences, and consultations. ISM also offers a job post for both administrators and teachers. www.isminc.com
	The Jewish Agency for Israel, Dept. of Jewish Zionist Education Provides curriculum development resources, suggestions for tackling current events and holidays. Also provides useful links to other online resources including downloadable calendars, activities, and more. www.jajz-ed.org.il
	JESNA (Jewish Educational Service of North America) Educational resource that provides information on educator recruitment and development, media and technology, research and evaluation. This organization also offers networks for a variety of educational disciplines, e.g. the Consortium for Special Needs Educators, the Jewish Day School Network and the Network for Research in Jewish Education. www.jesna.org
	Melton Arts MeltonArts.org, the new website of The Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction, is devoted to Jewish arts education. The resources and tools provided on this website are aimed at furthering the teaching and study of Jewish and Israeli culture through the various art forms. www.meltonarts.org
	Mercaz USA Mercaz USA is the Zionist arm of the Conservative Movement, linking Conservative Jews in America with the State of Israel, the Jewish People and Conservative/Masorti congregations in Israel and throughout the world. The Conservative Movement’s Aliyah Committee is organizing “November is Link to Israel Month”, a program for Conservative synagogues and institutions. Click here to learn more about the project or contact the MERCAZ office toll-free at 1-888-99 MERCAZ or aliyah@mercazusa.org. www.mercazusa.org / www.linktoisrael.org
	NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools) A membership organization that provides standards for teaching and educating in private, independent schools as well as a support network for both professional and political concerns. Non-members may access a variety of publications (e.g., NAIS.ink, IndependentSchool and articles on Equity and Justice). Other resources available include links to numerous online job boards, links to books and other publications, list of web resources available to teachers and other education professionals, select statistics on performance of independent schools and announcements on conferences help nationally. www.nais.org
	PEJE (Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education) A philanthropic organization that provides a variety of resources for Jewish Day Schools, including grants, publications and school consultations. www.peje.org
	U.S.Department of Education This site provides comprehensive information regarding state and federal regulations and guidelines, current public policy and statements from the federal department and the White House, and important data (e.g., public school teacher salaries by state). Also found on this site are a variety of resources and tools for general education curricula, numerous publications and some research statistics. www.ed.gov