OWN CORRESPONDENT
Pictured : Adele Gluckman in Jerusalem for the Masorti Europe meeting.
The focus of the meetings was to discuss the challenges to European communities of virulent anti-Semitism and attacks on Jews and Jewish centres in Europe.
Gluckman told the meeting about the strict security that is enforced at all Jewish establishments and suburbs in South Africa, and about the well-organised structures that facilitate this, such as CSO and CAP, who keep South African Jewry safe at all times.
Shalom Masorti Congregation said in a media release it has been affiliated with Masorti Olami from January 2003, but due to the congregation’s close connection with Rabbi Chaim Weiner, Av Beth Din of Masorti Europe, Gluckman had been invited to participate in the board’s monthly Skype meetings and had been invited to attend one of their European meetings either in London, Paris or Jerusalem.
She decided that Jerusalem would be the perfect city to connect with Masorti rabbonim and lay leadership. She joined community leaders from Spain, France, Hungary, Ukraine and England. After spending a day together studying and attending lectures at the Fuchsburg Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, they visited the New Herzl Museum and attended a programme with heads of the Israeli Masorti movement at the Schechter Institute.
Anyone who is interested in finding out more about Masorti may contact Gluckman at masortishalom@mapped.co.za
