Conservative movement

Senior Conservative rabbi Andrew (Andy) Sacks dies at 66

His memory will forever be a blessing and an inspiration for future generations to continue his fight for a more inclusive and just society.

 Rabbi Andrew (Andy) M. Sacks.
 A mass prayer event for the welfare of the hostages in Gaza takes place at the Western Wall last week.

No ifs, ands, or buts in Jewish unity

 A Jewish wedding Chuppah is seen in Tel Aviv on May 14, 2023

To welcome interfaith couples, Conservative synagogue hires cantor who can wed them

 JEWS IMMIGRATING from the former Soviet Union, 1990.

Soviet Jewry's unsung heroes - opinion


Oklahoma Dept. of Education announces partnership with PragerU

Decisions to include PragerU content in school curriculums have been met with much controversy due to many disagreeing with the content that is included in the curriculum.

 Dennis Prager speaking with attendees at the 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Israel needs Masorti Jews to become modern, tolerant, welcoming

Today there are nearly 80 Masorti congregations all across Israel, though a few meet only on festivals. None receive government funding.

 Rabbi Elisha Wolfin (right), marrying Ori and Yasmin.

Conservative movement rules: Permissible to eat at non-kosher vegetarian, vegan restaurants

17% of Jews identify as Conservative and only a fraction keep kosher at home. Even fewer adhere to the strict dietary laws when they dine out. 

 BUYING KOSHER produce in central Jerusalem during the shmita sabbatical year, 2000.

A call for compromise between religious and secular

Rabbi Menachem Bombach speaks at a demonstration calling for a broad consensus between the different groups within Israeli society that are currently in conflict.

 Rabbi Menachem Bombach

Aruba’s new rabbi comes out of retirement to lead a congregation in ‘paradise’

Alberto “Baruch” Zeilicovich recently came out of retirement to begin a three-year contract as the rabbi of Beth Israel Synagogue in Oranjestad, Aruba.

Dutch Colonial architecture in Oranjestad, Aruba, in 2004

Investigation into Conservative movement’s youth group identifies ‘hypersexualized culture’

The report comes amid a time of reckoning over child sexual abuse in the Jewish world.

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Reform and Conservative Jews feel discrimination in Israel - Jewish Agency chairman

Why do Reform and Conservative Jews feel unappreciated in Israel?

 REFORM JEWS hold up broken hearts as they demonstrate outside the Knesset in 1997 against pending legislation by ultra-religious parties to tighten their grip on conversion issues.

15 Conservative Jewish orgs. protest Israeli judicial reform

The Conservative Jewish organizations noted: "Our love for Israel compels us to action, just as it has in every past crisis the State of Israel has faced."

 Israelis protest against the government’s proposed judicial reforms in Tel Aviv on February 4.

Amichai Chikli's father: He has 'openness, tolerance of inclusion' - interview

Last week, Chikli emphasized that he was not a member of the Conservative movement and did not grow up as a Conservative Jew.

 MK AMICHAI CHIKLI attends the House Committee meeting in the Knesset last week at which he was declared a defector.

Diaspora Minister Chikli clarifies: 'I’m not a Conservative Jew'

Even though his father is a Conservative Rabbi Chikli does not identify with the movement, the new Diaspora Minister explained.

 NEW DIASPORA Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli is pledging to invest in ‘strengthening Jewish identity and teaching Hebrew to Jews in the Diaspora.’

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Reform, Conservative Judaism is a new religion

"Have you ever seen a Reformer [Jew] who repented? I didn't see any, there are none. They feel they are okay; that they have a religion, but they have a new religion."

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.