Conservative Judaism
The rabbinic scholar Saul Lieberman, who died in 1983, was famed for his comprehensive knowledge of talmudic literature, his meticulous scholarship, and his synthesis of. . .
The Hebrew phrase tikkun olam—“fixing the world”—has come to be one of the most well-known concepts in American Judaism, cited even by the President. In. . .
Day schools are a powerful tool in ensuring lifelong commitment to Judaism, but the number of non-Orthodox Jews enrolling their. . .
Faced with dwindling numbers, should American Jewry be actively seeking converts? A leader of Conservative Judaism says yes.
The decline of Conservative Judaism can be traced to its attempt to shape Jewish tradition around the lives of its congregants; what to do now?
Orthodox rabbis need to stop worrying about 200-year-old battles with “Reformers” and allow Jewish law to develop organically, as it always did in the past.
“The Talmud offers the advice that when one has drunk from a well, one should not later be found throwing earth into it, a teaching. . .
Having retired as chief rabbi in the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks intends to “go global” as a roving Jewish intellectual; will he also venture beyond. . .
“Focusing on egalitarianism was a distraction from the real problem: that Conservative Jews were not committed to halakhah and Jewish learning.”
If the decline of non-Orthodox Judaism is to be reversed, knowledge, ritual, and observance must become as central as social justice to Conservative and Reform Jews.
A new survey of American Jewry finds that young adults are substantially less religious than their grandparents, the rate of intermarriage is climbing—and Orthodoxy is growing.
Like the majority of American Jews today, the Cutheans of old rejected rabbinic authority and law. But while the rabbis have endured, the Cutheans have all but disappeared.