{"id":29320,"date":"2022-08-04T14:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29320"},"modified":"2022-08-04T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:35:41","slug":"ono-holds-the-worlds-first-conference-dedicated-to-moroccan-rabbi-yosef-mashash-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/ono-holds-the-worlds-first-conference-dedicated-to-moroccan-rabbi-yosef-mashash-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Holds the World\u2019s First Conference Dedicated to Moroccan Rabbi Yosef Mashash"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"594\" class=\"wp-image-29321 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Mashash-and-Bitton-1.22.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Mashash-and-Bitton-1.22.jpg 756w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Mashash-and-Bitton-1.22-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<p><strong>Ono Holds the World\u2019s First Conference Dedicated to Moroccan Rabbi Yosef Mashash<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dr. David Bitton, Head of Ono Academic College\u2019s Department of Multicultural Judaism organized the world\u2019s first conference in memory of Rabbi Yosef Mashash.\u00a0 The conference focused on Rabbi Mashash\u2019s Halachic (Jewish Law) work and historical thought.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dr. Bitton told interviewer Rino Tzror, on Army Radio\u2019s Galei Tzahal network, that this was not only the first conference dedicated to the work of Rabbi Mashash. It is one of the first conferences ever to focus on any Moroccan Jewish spiritual leader. He noted that Mashash\u2019s work has much to say to contemporary Israeli society.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Rabbi Mashash was born in Morocco in 1892 but spent 17 of his most productive years working prodigiously as a Halachic scholar in Algeria before returning to Morocco in 1940. Rabbi Mashash moved to Israel in 1963.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In the interview, Bitton explained how he came across the work of Rabbi Mashash for the first time while studying at university.\u00a0 In response to a question by Tzror, Dr. Bitton explained Rabbi Mashash\u2019s lenient and controversial realistic ruling regarding the Halachic requirement of women covering their hair.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Initially, 500 people were registered to attend the conference. Unfortunately, due to COVID 19, the conference was forced to move to Zoom.\u00a0 Even so, several hundred participants attended. The lectures and discussions broke new ground on scholarship about Rabbi Mashash.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The full interview can be found at:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/www.ifatmediasite.com\/ms\/radio\/2022\/01\/05\/11158511.mp3<\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In a related interview, Ono lecturer Dr. Michal Ohana spoke on the Caf\u00e9 Gibraltar program broadcast on the Kan Culture radio network about Rabbi Mashash and the conference dedicated to his memory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>That interview can be heard here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifatmediasite.com\/ms\/radio\/2021\/12\/23\/11132770.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ifatmediasite.com\/ms\/radio\/2021\/12\/23\/11132770.mp3<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29321,"menu_order":501,"template":"","class_list":["post-29320","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}