Conservative movement

Charlie Kirk's assassination: When debate dies by bullet - opinion

This wasn’t just a crime. It was a message: If you stand against the radical Left, if you refuse to parrot its ideology, your life may no longer be safe.

|ByKAREN AMOUYAL
Candles are placed next to a picture of Charlie Kirk during a vigil under the line "In Memory of Charlie Kirk, for freedom, patriotism and justice" in front of the Embassy of the United States in Berlin, Germany September 11, 2025.
Political activist and commentator Charlie Kirk appears at a Utah Valley University speaking event in Orem, Utah, US, September 10, 2025

Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk assassinated in Utah Valley University shooting

Kirk, 31, addressed a large outdoor crowd when a gunshot was heard • Person of interest released following interrogation

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Conservative rabbi resigns from movement after facing punishment for performing intermarriages

The third-generation Conservative rabbi resigned, stating he believes helping Jews who marry outside their religion is part of a rabbi’s duty to bless and embrace all.

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Participants in the Nativ pre-college gap year program, which is affiliated with the Conservative movement, historically divided their time between study in Jerusalem and volunteering elsewhere in Israel.

Conservative movement relaunches Israel gap-year program, swapping kibbutzim for Tel Aviv

The four-decade-old Nativ program was put on hiatus in 2024 after it failed to recruit enough students to be sustainable.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

Reform and Conservative Jews feel discrimination in Israel - Jewish Agency chairman

Why do Reform and Conservative Jews feel unappreciated in Israel?

MARCH 1, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
REFORM JEWS hold up broken hearts as they demonstrate outside the Knesset in 1997 against pending legislation by ultra-religious parties to tighten their grip on conversion issues.

15 Conservative Jewish orgs. protest Israeli judicial reform

The Conservative Jewish organizations noted: "Our love for Israel compels us to action, just as it has in every past crisis the State of Israel has faced."

FEBRUARY 19, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Israelis protest against the government’s proposed judicial reforms in Tel Aviv on February 4.

Amichai Chikli's father: He has 'openness, tolerance of inclusion' - interview

Last week, Chikli emphasized that he was not a member of the Conservative movement and did not grow up as a Conservative Jew.

JANUARY 15, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
MK AMICHAI CHIKLI attends the House Committee meeting in the Knesset last week at which he was declared a defector.

Diaspora Minister Chikli clarifies: 'I’m not a Conservative Jew'

Even though his father is a Conservative Rabbi Chikli does not identify with the movement, the new Diaspora Minister explained.

JANUARY 9, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
NEW DIASPORA Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli is pledging to invest in ‘strengthening Jewish identity and teaching Hebrew to Jews in the Diaspora.’

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Reform, Conservative Judaism is a new religion

"Have you ever seen a Reformer [Jew] who repented? I didn't see any, there are none. They feel they are okay; that they have a religion, but they have a new religion."

DECEMBER 11, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

Grapevine November 16, 2022: A government of alienation?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

NOVEMBER 16, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Former Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai.

Secular and Reform Israelis more religious than their American counterparts - analysis

If the Israeli branch of the Reform movement won’t recognize patrilineal descent Jews as Jewish, then something substantial needs to happen in order to bridge this gap.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
MEN PRAY at the Western Wall on the eve of Tisha Be’av, earlier this month. ‘The New York Times’ wrote last year that ‘The Western Wall is now used mostly by Jewish worshipers despite its also being important to Muslims.’

Conspiracy theories don't align with political orientation - study

Belief in conspiracy theories is primarily dependent upon its content, a new study that examined 52 conspiracy theories in the US found.

JULY 27, 2022ByALDEN TABAC
A woman wears a jacket with a QAnon logo while hundreds of vehicles including 18-wheeler trucks, RVs and other cars are parked as part of a rally at Hagerstown Speedway after some of them arrived as part of a convoy that traveled across the country headed to Washington D.C. to protest coronavirus d

Shuly Rubin Schwartz inaugurated as first woman chancellor of JTS

“My goal is to offer a nuanced educational approach that prepares future leaders to share Judaism’s riches," said Shuly Rubin Schwartz in a speech.

MAY 18, 2022ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz delivers her inaugural address as the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary at the institution's Manhattan campus, May 17, 2022.

US Jews back resolution calling awareness to infertility rates

The resolution declares “that the United States Government has a responsibility to help examine, create, and implement solutions to address and alleviate the problems associated with the disease.”

APRIL 29, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks about her experiences during a trip to Israel and Auschwitz-Birkenau as part of a bipartisan delegation from the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., Jan. 28, 2020.