The Centennial Fire Is Catching On
Rabbi Charles Savenor Special To The Jewish Week The Red Sox were on the precipice of a sweep of the 2004 World Series, and all the TV commentators could focus on during in Game 4 was when their team...
View ArticleA L’Chaim To Conservative Judaism
Arnold Eisen Special To The Jewish Week JTS chancellor: ‘Complacency’ and ‘despair’ … ‘are forbidden;'‘both are distractions from the task at hand.’ I’ve spent the better part of my adult life as a...
View ArticleSchechter Schools Considering Embracing Patrilineal Descent
JTA Synagogues aren’t the only institutions in the Conservative movement changing their policies to become more welcoming to non-Jews and interfaith families.read more
View ArticleThe Remaking Of Conservative Judaism
JTA Rabbi’s coming-out highlights dramatic shift in the middle movement and its flagship seminary here. Gil Steinlauf, a nationally prominent Conservative rabbi, made headlines this month when he...
View ArticleUSY Drops Ban On Interdating
JTA United Synagogue Youth voted to relax its rules barring its teenage board members from dating non-Jews.read more
View ArticleUnited Synagogue Of Conservative Judaism Selling Its Real Estate
JTA The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is selling its New York office. The organization announced Wednesday that it signed a contract last month to sell its two-floor condo in midtown...
View ArticleUnited Synagogue Selling Its N.Y. Real Estate
JTA The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is selling its New York office. The organization announced Wednesday that it signed a contract last month to sell its two-floor condo in Midtown...
View ArticleNew Round Of Layoffs At United Synagogue
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Four executives fired in latest belt-tightening at Conservative congregational arm. In the latest belt-tightening move made by a financially strapped Conservative movement,...
View ArticleAs Communities Change, So Must Rabbis, And the Organizations that Serve Them
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik Jewish Week Online Columnist Beginning last summer and continuing on throughout this year, the Rabbinical Assembly, the professional organization of Conservative rabbis, has...
View ArticleConservative Jewry’s Numbers Plummeting, But Core Engagement Steady
Steven M. Cohen JTA When delegates to the biennial convention of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism meet next week near Chicago, they will be seeking a way forward for a movement challenged...
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