Conservative Judaism Thriving, Rabbi Says
The chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary contends that among the faith’s main branches, Conservative Judaism is “the least riven and parochial and the most stable” and has the largest U.S. synagogue membership.
In a state-of-the-movement address at a synagogue here, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch said his branch “chooses with discretion. Not everything modern is contemptible, or irresistible.”
He said that unlike Orthodoxy to the right, Conservative Judaism ordains women rabbis, but unlike Reform to the left it refuses to perform interfaith marriages or count children of non-Jewish mothers as Jewish.
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