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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 474

Conservative Judaism

Left: Conservative Rabbi Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz (public domain); right: From right to left, Rabbi Mauricio Balter, executive director of Masorti Olami, Dr. Yizhar Hess, Rabbi Ashira Konigsberg, Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, CEO of the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, look up at the street sign named for Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz, Herzliya, December 11, 2024. (Herzliya Municipality)
December 15, 2024, 6:06 am
1st street in Israel named for Masorti rabbi who influenced Declaration of Independence
In Herzliya, the Conservative Movement celebrates the commemoration of US cleric Shalom Tzvi Davidowitz, who is likely responsible for adding God into the historic 1948 statement
By Mati Wagner
Conservative rabbis pray at the Ezrat Yisrael egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, Thursday December 12, 2024. (Courtesy)
December 14, 2024, 3:12 pm
‘Hurting together’: Conservative Rabbis meet in Israel for first time since October 7
Rabbis from communities across North and South America, Europe, and Australia convene in Jerusalem to show solidarity and reflect on the lessons of October 7
By Zev Stub
B'nai Jeshurun, a synagogue on Manhattan's Upper West Side, in March 2022. (Noam Galai/Getty Images/JTA)
October 31, 2024, 7:11 pm
New York synagogue reveals sexual assault allegation against renowned late rabbi
Marshall T. Meyer led Upper West Side’s B’nai Jeshurun from 1985 to 1993; synagogue says allegations ‘credible,’ removing his name from rabbinic training program
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Joshua Leifer and his new book, "Tablets Shattered." (Courtesy/Dutton Publishing via JTA)
October 4, 2024, 8:55 am
What Matters Now to Joshua Leifer: The fall of US Jewry and how it can rise again
While a product of the Conservative movement, the left-wing journalist argues in a new book that ultra-Orthodoxy offers blueprint for ensuring that American Jewish life can thrive
By ToI Staff
An aerial view of American Jewish University's Sunny & Isadore Familian Campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Communications Department, AJU via JTA)
September 29, 2024, 5:11 am
Investigation clears Ziegler rabbinical school deans of ethics code allegations
Committee’s conclusion in line with findings of related investigation undertaken by law firm at behest of American Jewish University, completed earlier this year
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam, May 2022. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 22, 2024, 2:55 am
LA and Jerusalem rabbis tapped to support German rabbinical schools
Rabbis Bradley Shavit Artson, Yehodaya Amir set to lead seminaries associated with the University of Potsdam in a move criticized as endangering ‘the unity of the Jewish community’
By Toby Axelrod
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, head rabbi of New York’s Park Avenue Synagogue, holding his new book, 'For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today,' September 11, 2024. (Courtesy)
September 13, 2024, 12:32 pm
What Matters Now to Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: What binds US Jews to Israel post-Oct. 7
New book by influential Conservative NY rabbi delves into the invisible thread that has tied the Jewish state to US Jewry – and how it could be snapped in the next generation
By ToI Staff
Yosef Kibita poses with his new Israeli passport. (Courtesy Masorti Movement in Israel)
August 17, 2024, 7:55 am
After 7-year legal battle, Uganda Jewish man finally gets Israeli citizenship
Interior Ministry approves the bid of Yosef Kibita from the Abayudaya community after four conversions and years of roadblocks
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A solar eclipse seen from Yunlin county, central Taiwan, on June 21, 2020. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)
April 8, 2024, 6:41 pm
US Jews join eclipse-gazing throngs, as solar excitement blots out ancient fears
Synagogues set up viewing parties, with some rabbis saying Monday offers opportunity to say blessing for natural wonders, others that it is a time to reflect on majesty of nature
By JTA
A groom smashes the glass in a Jewish wedding, under the huppah (Mor Seban; iStock by Getty Images)
January 31, 2024, 8:39 pm
Conservative rabbis urged to engage with interfaith families, still can’t marry them
While a ban on officiating at intermarriages still stands, the movement is recommending an array of changes, from new rituals to updated hiring regulations, to increase inclusivity
By jacob gurvis
Cantor Sarah Freudenberger at a ketubah signing ceremony for an interfaith wedding she officiated in October 2023. (Courtesy Freudenberger via JTA)
January 8, 2024, 1:43 am
To welcome interfaith couples, US Conservative synagogue hires cantor who can wed them
While most clergy in the denomination aren’t allowed to perform interfaith weddings, Sarah Freudenberger’s temple takes advantage of a loophole to send an inviting message
By Gavi Klein
Conservative rabbis from across the United States surround Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin (center), whose son Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, October 31, 2023. (Courtesy Fuchsberg Center)
November 3, 2023, 10:34 am
US rabbis make solidarity trip to Israel for firsthand experience of Hamas onlsaught
Group visits Ofakim and Be’eri, where terrorists killed more than 100 people, meet with parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin
By Eliyahu Freedman
Jared Armstrong, right, playing professional basketball in Israel. (Courtesy of Armstrong via JTA)
August 26, 2023, 3:53 pm
Basketball player who fought for Israeli citizenship promotes Black-Jewish ties
Among his efforts, Jared Armstrong will run a free basketball clinic for middle schoolers in Philadelphia on Sunday that has Black and Jewish kids coming from as far as Connecticut
By jacob gurvis
An illustrative photo of a charging electric car. (Scharfsinn86 via iStock by Getty Images)
July 28, 2023, 6:48 am
Conservative rabbis endorse use of electric cars on Shabbat, still divided on driving
Just 10 members of the movement’s 25-rabbi Committee on Jewish Law and Standards were in favor and 6 voted against, 5 rabbis abstained, 4 did not attend
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Screen capture from video of the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of Los Angeles. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 16, 2023, 4:08 am
US Conservative rabbinical school to relocate to Beverly Hills
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies will move to new premises near Pico-Robertson neighborhood, the ‘heart of Jewish life’ in Los Angeles
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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