Posts Tagged: Conservative Jews
Orthodox and Conservative Jews Should Be Natural Allies
JNS.org - Jewish tradition holds that the Second Temple was destroyed by baseless hatred. Since we’re currently in the annual three-week mourning period for the...
We Need to Talk About the Importance of Non-Orthodox Movements
JNS.org - The Jewish Federations of North America held their annual General Assembly last week under the title “We Need to Talk” -- with “we”...
For the Love of God, Don’t Arrest Your Opponents
Last Thursday, Israeli police detained Dov Haiyun, rabbi of the Conservative Moriah Congregation in Haifa, after a complaint was filed at the Haifa Rabbinical Court...
The Chosen People and Antisemitism
I recently remarked to my six-year old daughter that I love the God of Israel. She fumed and cried out, "Not only people in Israel...
Conservative Jews Stand Up to Anti-Israel Rhetoric
JNS.org - Members and alumni of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) are the latest targets of IfNotNow, an organization that seeks to promote sympathy...
When the Jewish Left Had Integrity
One of the sad problems on college campuses today is the way that the extreme left has hijacked civil and human rights movements, and turned them into...
Reform, Conservative Jews Say Western Wall Compromise Effectively Dead
JNS.org - In a move that may further ignite tensions between Israel and Diaspora Jewry, the Reform and Conservative movements say that they no longer agree...
A Different Take on the Western Wall Controversy
JNS.org - The headlines of the Jewish press this week were filled with stories about angry American Jews denouncing the Israeli government’s decision regarding egalitarian prayer...
Coalition Politics Are Threatening the Jewish State
The Israeli government's decision to cave to ultra-Orthodox pressure and suspend its 2016 policy allowing egalitarian Jewish prayers at a separate section of the Western Wall is...
Can Different Jews Unite for the High Holidays?
JNS.org - In April 2015 – in the aftermath of the death of 25-year-old African-American man Freddie Gray inside a police van after being arrested by...
Interfaith Marriage and Jewish Customs: Doing Away With Something Inconvenient
Seymour Rosenbloom is a Conservative rabbi who gave 36 years of distinguished service to Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Jewish...
Conservative Jews Deserve More Than PR
JNS.org - Responding to a dramatic decline in membership, the Conservative Jewish movement’s congregational arm has hired the Good Omen PR agency to survey hundreds of...
Conservative Judaism’s Rebranding Effort Could Signal a Sea Change
JNS.org - Conservative Judaism has always had something akin to middle-child syndrome: squeezed on both sides by the Orthodox and Reform movements. But lately, its identity...
Jews and the Global Tilt Towards Conservativism and Populism
Since the emancipation of the eighteenth century, Jews traditionally supported liberal, reform and even revolutionary movements which, in most cases, paved the way for them...
