Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. (JTA) — When the Conservative movement’s ...
When the Conservative movement’s ethics committee opened an investigation into his participation in interfaith weddings, Rabbi Ari Yehuda Saks didn’t wait for the verdict. On Aug. 10, the ...
Conservative Judaism, struggling with decades of declining membership and an abrupt, sweeping change in its senior leadership, heard a call in early June from three prominent rabbis for a rethinking ...
A Conservative synagogue in Minnesota has become the first in its denomination to allow its clergy to participate in — but not officiate — weddings of Jews who marry outside their faith. Rabbis and ...
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To fully welcome interfaith families and other marginalized groups, synagogues and rabbis need to match words with actions, writes the chief program officer of 18Doors. I grew up in a large suburban ...
For more than a generation, the Conservative movement has tried to survive by postponing decisions it no longer wishes to make. It has softened language, commissioned reports, issued apologies, ...
Gays and lesbians may now be ordained as rabbis if their synagogues permit, a prominent Conservative Jewish body voted last Wednesday, highlighting divides within the Jewish community that threaten to ...
Shuly Rubin Schwartz, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, is stepping down next year after leading the Conservative movement’s flagship university and rabbinical seminary since 2020.
(JTA) — When the Conservative movement’s ethics committee opened an investigation into his participation in interfaith weddings, Rabbi Ari Yehuda Saks didn’t wait for the verdict. On Sunday, the third ...
Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families. (Stock photo/Burke/Triolo Productions via Getty Images) Asaf ...