In Restructuring, United Synagogue Slashes Dues, Jobs
The Conservative movement’s congregational arm will reduce dues that member synagogues pay to the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, cut 15 staff jobs and restructure many of its other...
View ArticleObama Gay Marriage Nod Praised By Many Jewish Groups
A number of Jewish groups praised President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage, and an Orthodox group said it was "disappointed.""History will regard his affirmation of this core right for the LGBT...
View ArticleStudents, Women’s League Rally Behind Campus Program
Stewart Ain Staff Writer $225k program may be cut as Conservative movement struggles with shrinking membership.Stunned by the revelation that the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s trustees...
View ArticleLifting Our Heads High As Conservative Jews
Rabbi Steven Wernick Special To The Jewish Week It seems that every significant study of the Jewish people is released while we read from the Book of Numbers, the book that derives its English name...
View ArticleConservative Ruling Tips Scales On Cooked Fish
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Hot dairy meals at non-kosher restaurants should follow certain protocols, law committee says. Will anyone comply? In 1952, when the Conservative movement was rapidly becoming...
View ArticleConservative Rabbi Offers 'Trial Balloon'
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher The movement should think about first accepting converts, and then teaching them. When one of the country’s leading Conservative rabbis states publicly his...
View ArticleDying L.I. Synagogue Finds A, Well, Savior
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Merger with Hispanic Evangelical church is lifeline for Smithtown Conservative congregation. If it’s a sign of the times, boy, is it a doozy. The sign at the entrance to...
View ArticleAt Conservative Judaism Convention, Leaders Focus On Shrinkage
BALTIMORE — At their biennial convention, Conservative Jewish leaders called for renewing the “vital religious center” of American Judaism in the wake of numerous studies showing their movement is...
View ArticleIs United Synagogue’s House ‘On Fire?’
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Middle movement grapples with a way forward at centennial convention. Baltimore — United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism was marking its 100th birthday, but while recent...
View ArticlePluralism In Prayer
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik In advance of last week’s Biennial Convention of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in Baltimore, I attended a pre-convention Shabbaton- a kind of optional add-on for...
View ArticleThe 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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