The Institute has conducted colloquia and seminars on Progressive Halakhah in four continents. Its Israeli editor regularly writes halakhic articles for the Israeli press and scholarly journals and has developed creative, liberal solutions to halakhic questions of marriage, conversion and personal status. We have affirmed the Jewishness of Ethiopian Jews and declared that they must not be forced to undergo conversion. We have publicly declared the egalitarian status of women in the synagogue and in public life. These and many other acts have helped to restore dignity and spirituality to Jewish religious life in Israel .

Moshe Zemer