The move by Adath Jeshurun’s leadership marks a deliberate departure from the stricter standards long upheld by the ...

Instead of sending students to kibbutzim and small villages for volunteer work, the four-decade-old Nativ track now sends them to the White City's trendy Florentin neighborhood ...

The Conservative movement is relaunching its Israel gap-year program in 2026, after shuttering operations completely over a ...

Conservative Judaism has many strengths. It includes some of the most vibrant congregations in American religious life and some of the most prominent rabbis, among them David Wolpe of Los Angeles ...

Conservative Judaism, by contrast, has a central body responsible for deciding what the halacha is – the Rabbinical Assembly. It decides which interpretations of the law are valid ...

Conservative Judaism became a real force in the USA when Solomon Schechter, head of the Jewish Theological Seminary, founded the United Synagogue of America in 1912 by bringing together 22 like- ...

Conservative Judaism, which is shrinking faster than any other American denomination, will forge ahead with the status quo. But the challenge of intermarriage—which symbolizes so many of the ...

(RNS) As Conservative Judaism approaches its 100th birthday, it confronts a set of statistics that bode poorly for its future as the anchor in the center of American Jewish life.

Conservative Judaism prohibits officiating at, attending or otherwise celebrating an intermarriage, but a number of Conservative rabbis want some or all of those rules to change.

Conservative Judaism, once America’s largest Jewish denomination, is now second in size to the Reform movement. According to the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01, ...

Over the past two decades, affiliation with Conservative Judaism in America has dropped sharply, from 43% in 1990 to 33% in 2001, the most recent year for which information is available.