Conservative Judaism, struggling with decades of declining membership and an abrupt, sweeping change in its senior leadership, heard a call in early June from three prominent rabbis for a rethinking ...

The policy change at Adath Jeshurun Congregation, a large synagogue in suburban Minneapolis, goes against rules set by the Conservative movement. A Conservative synagogue in Minnesota has become the ...

To fully welcome interfaith families and other marginalized groups, synagogues and rabbis need to match words with actions, writes the chief program officer of 18Doors. I grew up in a large suburban ...

The Conservative movement, one of the major Jewish denominations, is formally apologizing for decades of discouraging intermarriage and committing itself to a new approach centered on engagement. The ...

The Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards recently issued two opposite, but equally valid, rulings on whether it is permissible to use electric cars to drive to synagogue on ...

When a study released last year showed enrollment at major seminaries in a decade-long decline, it fueled concerns about a ...

Rabbi Harlow’s prayer books, including “Siddur Sim Shalom,” became the standards of worship in Conservative synagogues across North America. By Ari L. Goldman Rabbi Jules Harlow, a liturgist who ...

The Conservative movement, once the largest denomination in American Jewish life, is in the midst of a long, painful contraction. For decades after World War II, its synagogues were packed, its ...

MARGATE – Congregation Beth El on Jerome Avenue welcomed its new rabbi at a service July 19 and although women have been ordained as rabbis in Conservative Judiasm since 1985, it’s a first for this ...

A Conservative synagogue in Minnesota has become the first in its denomination to allow its clergy to participate in — but not officiate — weddings of Jews who marry outside their faith. Rabbis and ...

Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families. (Stock photo/Burke/Triolo Productions via Getty Images) Asaf ...