Conservative judaism

Conservative Judaism’s new line on intermarriage is a great start. What comes next is key - opinion

Belonging is not declared. It is rebuilt and demonstrated, slowly, through consistency, humility, and courage. If the movement is willing to do that work, genuine repair is possible.

  Conservative Judaism has been trying to chart a middle path between Jewish tradition and acceptance of the reality of interfaith families.
A chuppah for a Jewish wedding

Judaism’s Conservative movement apologizes for decades of discouraging intermarriage

PRO-ISRAELI ACTIVISTS argue with pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a protest in New York in 2025.

Yom Kippur: What Mishnah Yoma teaches about Jewish unity and public conflict

 Illustrative

Conservative rabbi resigns from movement after facing punishment for performing intermarriages


Rabbi Benjamin Segal: A 50-year Jerusalemite, scholar, and community founder

Jerusalemite of the Week: In Jerusalem sat down with Rabbi Benjamin Segal to talk about his half a century in Jerusalem. 

 Rabbi Benjamin Segal

American Jewish University says investigation found no systemic sexism or homophobia at seminary

A spokesperson for AJU told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the school has no plans to release the report.

 An aerial view of American Jewish University's Sunny & Isadore Familian Campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Gladys and Esther: A family's history - feature

Gladys Sturman, who turns 95 at the end of May, now has 27 great-grandchildren. Twenty-one of them are Esther’s grandchildren in Israel.

 Gladys and Herman Sturman with their daughter Esther Rabi on her wedding day in June 1985.

Parashat Kedoshim: Understanding the light of Shabbat

Shabbat is a weekly infusion of both physical and spiritual delight and rest for the Jewish people, the authors write.

 ‘SHABBAT TABLE Crowns.’

Avatar of Zionism and Americanism: Gil Troy on his father - opinion

My father, Bernard Dov Troy, of blessed memory

 BERNARD DOV Troy never stopped celebrating life and the great achievements of Israel and American Jewry

Why the Conservative movement is changing our approach to interfaith marriage

The culture of disapproval did not dissuade individuals from their marriage choices and it certainly did not draw people closer to our communities, instead, too often, it pushed them away.

An illustrative photo of a Jewish wedding in front of the Mediterranean Sea.

Soviet Jewry's unsung heroes - opinion

Rabbi Jonathan Porath is well-known within his activist and conservative circles. For most of us, however, he is an unsung hero of the movement to liberate Soviet Jewry.

 JEWS IMMIGRATING from the former Soviet Union, 1990.

Over 1,000 American rabbis from diverse backgrounds join forces to support Israel

"We hope and pray that the vision of the Hebrew prophets shall come to pass, that 'all shall sit under their vine and fig tree, and none shall make them afraid.'"

 Hundreds of people pray at the Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto on Yom Kippur (The photograph was taken from a surveillance camera).

Facing declining enrollment, Schechter Manhattan to close at end of school year

Schechter Manhattan’s closure means that only one school with roots in the Conservative movement remains in the five boroughs.

 Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City.

Israel must commit to funding all forms of Judaism - editorial

What kind of message is conveyed when the Reform and Conservative movements are treated as less legitimate than Orthodoxy?

At the ceremony marking the 100th ordination of a graduate from Hebrew Union College’s Israeli Reform rabbinical program