Read the Religion & Ethics Newsweekly transcript of a Sept. 30, 2005 interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi on Jewish renewal movements.

Read a 2009 essay published in the Journal of Jewish Communal Service about the expansion of Judaism, and the growing interests and appropriations of its spiritual practices.

Read Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg’s column, “The Fad That Would Not Pass,” about Jewish spirituality and its focus not on the community but on the self.

The website JewishLink provides information on Jewish spirituality and seeks to study the lost practice of Jewish healing in order to bring it to the modern world.  

StandWithUs is a pro-Israel advocacy group founded by Roz Rothstein, named one of the 50 most influential Jews by Forward in 2008. The organization maintains chapters by region as well as a youth branch, StandWithUs Campus, with several regional offices.

Neturei Karta is an anti-Zionist organization that opposes the existence of the state of Israel because its members believe that a sovereign Israel is contrary to Jewish law. Rabbi Dovid Weiss is associate director and is based in Monsey, N.Y. Contact via the form on its website.

Mercaz USA is the Zionist arm of the Conservative movement. It advocates for Israel and works to build ties between the Jewish diaspora and Israel. Janet Tobin is president. It is based in New York City.

The Israel on Campus Coalition advocates for Israel on college campuses, monitoring for anti-Israel bias in media and in classes. Marjan Keypour Greenblatt is acting director.

Encounter introduces emerging Jewish leaders to the issues of Palestine and its people. Yona Shem-Tov is its North American co-director.