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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Conservative movement

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)
June 20, 2024, 9:40 am
US rabbinical school says probe of seminary found no systemic sexism or homophobia
But American Jewish University does not intend to release report that questioned 200 people, despite calls for transparency from some who alleged abuse
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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
Participants in the Nativ pre-college gap year program, affiliated with the Conservative movement, divide their time between study in Jerusalem and volunteering elsewhere in Israel. (Courtesy of Nativ)
December 22, 2023, 5:29 am
Conservative movement suspends its Israel gap-year program, citing budget woes
Long-running Nativ program shrank considerably in recent years; Conservative movement leaders lament ‘new economic realities, recruitment challenges’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Yishai Mogilner, 19, worked as one of the Israeli staff members at Camp Ramah in the Poconos for the 2023 season (Courtesy Ella Goldberg)
September 1, 2023, 9:29 am
What Matters Now to counselor Yishai Mogilner: Being an Israeli at a US summer camp
Picking up from last summer’s podcast with two Israeli counselors at Camp Ramah in the Poconos, first-time staffer Yishai Mogilner talks about returning to his family’s camp
By Jessica Steinberg
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
Vegetarian food sold at the restaurant Village Green on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, April 17, 2008. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 22, 2023, 5:03 pm
Conservative movement okays dining at meat-free eateries without kosher certificates
Rabbis rule it’s kosher to eat at unsupervised vegan and vegetarian restaurants, say many of their members already see ‘no obvious kashrut problems’ in doing so
By Jackie Hajdenberg
The Conservative Movement's 2023 Passover guide recommends browsing for certified gluten-free, oat-free products ahead of Passover when making their holiday purchases this year. (Getty via JTA)
April 9, 2023, 1:50 pm
Amended Conservative Jewish Passover policy taps into booming gluten-free market
Rabbis make a pandemic-era emergency measure permanent, allowing certain FDA-certified products to be purchased ahead of the holiday even without a kosher for Passover label
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: A young woman sits alone (torwai; iStock by Getty Images)
March 10, 2023, 4:52 am
Probe into Conservative Jewish youth group finds ‘hypersexualized culture’
Inquiry following ToI exposé on decades-long abuse scandal identifies 41 alleged incidents of sexual misconduct by adults at USY, but concludes issues not systemic
By Jacob Magid and JTA
Demonstrators rally on a highway in Tel Aviv to protest the Israeli government's planned overhaul of the judicial system, on February 18, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
February 19, 2023, 7:48 pm
Conservative movement: Legal overhaul would ‘eviscerate’ Israeli checks and balances
Joining other international Jewish groups, Masorti-Conservative leadership comes out in favor of President Herzog’s call to freeze legislation, hold dialogue on judicial reform
By Judah Ari Gross
Reform and Conservative Jewish leaders at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2016. (Courtesy Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism)
November 11, 2022, 10:48 pm
$2.3 million plan to improve ties with non-Orthodox Jews uncertain after election
Watchdog reveals existence of plan to bring American youth to Israel and hold communal events in the US, without any apparent reference to issues driving disconnect
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Actor Adam Sandler (left) with Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin of Toronto's Beth Tzedec Synagogue, where Sandler and cast spent much of the summer filming his upcoming tween film, 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!' (Courtesy: Robyn Fryer Bodzin)
August 18, 2022, 7:08 pm
Adam Sandler spends 6 weeks at Toronto shul shooting bat mitzvah film
Sandler, Idina Menzel and SNL actor Sarah Sherman get friendly with the rabbis, Beth Tzedec’s Steven Wernick and Robyn Fryer Bodzin
By Jessica Steinberg
Rabbi Matt Abelson, right, makes the blessing over bread with children of the Jericho Jewish Center at Shabbat in the park, 2019. (Leslie Hartman)
August 9, 2022, 9:53 pm
NY synagogue’s looming demise highlights Conservative Judaism’s struggles to survive
The Jericho Jewish Center has aimed to consolidate with a nearby congregation, but years of negotiations over men and women praying together finish with the plan voted down
By Cathryn J. Prince
In this July 16, 2010 photo, members of the religious group Minyan Tehillah look at a Torah scroll as they prepare for Shabbat services at Harvard Radcliffe Hillel, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)
June 9, 2022, 5:33 am
Conservative movement introduces non-binary liturgy for Torah honors
In unanimous vote, rabbinical panel signs off on lightly tweaked liturgy to accommodate people who do not identify as male or female to avoid ’embarrassment and disrespect’
By Judah Ari Gross
A law enforcement officer lights a candle outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP/Jae C. Hong)
May 26, 2022, 1:07 am
Jewish groups share horror over Texas shooting, but remain split on gun control
Organizations affiliated with liberal and progressive streams of Judaism call for reforms after latest mass killing, but others shy away from taking politically fraught stance
By Ron Kampeas
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