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March 23, 2017

Saving Conservative Judaism Means Keeping it Distinct from Reform

The case for anchoring the tent, not enlarging it until it collapses.

Earlier this month, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism—the body that governs the denomination’s congregations—changed its polices to allow individual synagogues to accept non-Jews as members. (In most cases, these will be spouses or children of Jewish congregants.) To Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, the decision reflects a fateful step in the ongoing dissolution of the differences between Conservative and Reform Judaism, which, if continued, will sap the former of its vitality:

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March 23, 2017

  1. The State Department’s Human-Rights Report Is an Anti-Israel Travesty

    Gathering libels and inanities from every NGO that criticizes the Jewish state.

  2. Why Israel Declared the PLO’s Treasury a Terrorist Organization

    Punishing Abbas for rewarding terrorists.

  3. Don’t Censor Holocaust Denial, But Don’t Allow It in the Classroom

    The marketplace of ideas can only do so much.

  4. Saving Conservative Judaism Means Keeping it Distinct from Reform

    The case for anchoring the tent, not enlarging it until it collapses.

  5. Oman Has Stayed Out of the Middle East’s Conflicts and Is Not Home to Jihadists. Why?

    Enlightened despotism has served it well.