Posts Tagged: Conservative movement
US Jewish Groups Express ‘Outrage’ Over Police Inquiry of Masorti Rabbi in Israel
JNS.org - American Jewish groups have expressed anger and concern after learning that Israeli police detained and questioned a Conservative rabbi for officiating a wedding in...
Conservative Movement Nullifies Discriminatory Laws Against Non-Jews
JNS.org - The Conservative movement in Israel (Masorti) on Monday nullified all Jewish civil laws that discriminate against non-Jews. The movement rejected the extreme positions that a...
Modern Orthodox Education Caught Between…Modern and Orthodox
JNS.org - When the Pew Research Center published its much-discussed survey of American Jews in 2013, the findings seemed auspicious for the Orthodox denomination. Orthodox Jews...
American Jewry at the Crossroads: Isaac Mayer Wise, Solomon Schechter, and now…Avi Weiss and Sara Hurwitz
On July 11, 1883 a dinner honoring the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College (the rabbinical seminary of Reform Judaism), was held in...
