Conservative judaism

Meet the Connecticut dad and children’s book author who won a JFK Jr. lookalike contest

“He was Catholic. I’m Jewish. I married a Jew. He married a goy,” joked Andrew Ginsburg, who has been inundated with comments that he resembles the late John F. Kennedy Jr. since he was 22.

Andrew Ginsburg celebrates after winning a JFK Jr. look-alike competition in the West Village.
Rabbi Gesa Ederberg is installed as the president of the Rabbinical Assembly at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, New Jersey, March 11, 2026.

Berlin rabbi makes history as first European to head Conservative rabbis’ association

Smartphone shows a missile alert, in Mishmar David, Feb. 28.

Shabbat under fire: Navigating Jewish law, missile alerts in Israel during war - opinion

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

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


Non-Orthodox Judaism brings a needed service to Am Yisrael - opinion

We must ask ourselves what we would gain by rejecting converts from non-Orthodox streams of Judaism.

On June 11, at the Western Wall, 39 Women of the Wall prayer books were grabbed, torn up, and destroyed.

A time of hope, reform to heal Israel's religious divides - opinion

While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its resolution occupies the attention of the outside world, it is the fissures in Israeli society that are of growing concern.

MK MOSHE GAFNI is removed from the Knesset plenum by a security guard earlier this week.

Extremist Orthodox activists take over Western Wall egalitarian section

A group of hardline religious-Zionist activists reportedly interrupted a Conservative payer service and megillah reading, and prevented some Conservative worshippers from entering the site.

Prominent leader of the hardline religious-Zionist community Rabbi Shlomo Aviner is present Thursday night when a group of Orthodox activists interrupted a Masorti (Conservative) celebration at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall.

New memoir paves way for Holocaust survivor's stories

The Wagamama Bride by Liane Grunberg Wakabayashi debuts a personal tale whine shining a light on a Holocaust survivor's story.

The couples' wedding in the hotel.

Decrying ‘social justice,’ 49 people sign ‘Jewish Harper’s letter’

The letter calls on Jews to take action against the “suppression of dissent” that is said to be dominating the United States

WRITING ABOUT one’s health publicly can have a similar effect.

Conservative rabbis to review ethics code over abuse, gender inequity

The RA will be working to update ethics codes with Sacred Spaces, an organization that works with Jewish communities to address sexual abuse and power abuse.

INTERIOR OF the Yael shul today.

Orthodox rabbis support conversion decision - comment

This move, we believe, will help foster in Israel a less coercive Orthodoxy and worldwide will embrace all of our people as part of Am Yisrael, with a shared past and shared future.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews seen in the street of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim on a rainy day, January 18, 2021.

Reform, Conservative leaders slam PM’s comments on 'fake conversion' fears

Netanyahu expressed concern over 'fake conversions’ and said the govt must 'protect the borders of Israel’ when asked about the recent High Court ruling on non-Orthodox conversions.

African migrants in Tel Aviv

Is it possible to choose between 'Jewishness' and Israel?

After a week like this one, I find myself caught between values that are core to my very being.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

Jewish conversion law aside, we need to respect each other first

At the “entrance gate” to the Jewish people stand those who prefer to live in social ghettos and avoid seeing the vital national value of conversion.

AMERICAN AND Israeli Orthodox and Conservative Jews protest outside the Chief Rabbinate offices in Jerusalem, against the rabbinate’s disqualification of American rabbis’ conversions in July 2016.