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	The Core Values of Conservative Judaism
		Conservative Jews are the backbone of Federation leadership in North America and the major source of its annual campaign.
		Jews would then come to the synagogue on Shabbat morning prepared and primed to listen to the Torah reading, to recapture a touch of the numinous of the Sinai experience which, at best, it is designed to reenact.
		Conservative Jews are rabbinic and not biblical Jews.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/conservative_values.html (4738 words)

	Making Israel a Light Unto the Nations: Conservative Zionism Reconsidered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is a travesty for Conservative Jews to remain on the sidelines of the tremendous historical achievement that Israel represents.
		Conservative Judaism has a great deal to contribute to Israeli society by offering an alternative Judaism to that of the corrupt and domineering Orthodox establishment and by advocating for a Western democratic stance, which does not come naturally to Jews with Eastern European or Middle Eastern roots.
		As Conservative Jews, we must loudly reaffirm that Judaism and Right-wing extremism should not be countered by legal restrictions on free speech, but by a resounding consensus articulated in resolution that Israel's democracy is firmly rooted in the millennial experience of Jewish self-government and in the history of Zionism.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1645 (1886 words)

	Judaism FAQs
		The international body of Conservative rabbis is the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), their body of synagogues is the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), and the primary seminary and cantorial school is the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS).
		Conservative Jews view the laws and customs from the various law codes as the basis for normative Jewish law.
		A Jew is someone who was born to a Jewish mother, or who converts to Judaism in accordance with Jewish law and tradition.
	groups.msn.com /judaismfaqs/conservativemasortijudaism.msnw (1366 words)

	Conservative Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conservative Judaism, (also known as Masorti Judaism in Israel predominantly), is a modern stream of Judaism that arose in the United States in the early 1900's.
		Conservative Jews merely took the dome off the board to begin moving the pieces once again according to the rules.
		In particular, they criticize the Conservative position that Halakhic precedent is not binding and the use of minority positions in rabbinic literature as support for Conservative rulings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Judaism (5233 words)

	CNN - Reform, Conservative Jews suspend legal action over conversions - October 28, 1997
		Reform and Conservative Jewish leaders have been pursuing legal action in an effort to obtain formal recognition of their movements in Israel, where religious affairs are controlled by two chief Orthodox rabbis.
		Orthodox Jews argue that only a rigid set of laws has enabled the Jewish people to survive, and that the more liberal Reform and Conservative Jews are only one step away from assimilation.
		U.S. Jews who gave Netanyahu generous campaign contributions for his election in 1996 and provide substantial funding for Israeli projects reportedly have threatened to cut off the money, if the three Orthodox parties in his coalition enact legislation to counteract any court ruling on lawsuits by the Reform and Conservative movements.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9710/28/israel.religion (811 words)

	The Christian Century
		Caught in the middle is the Conservative movement, which holds that Jewish law is binding but has changed over time and may continue to do so to address changing social circumstances and moral sensitivities.
		Conservative Jews are wrestling with the same issues that are roiling Protestant denominations, particularly the Episcopal Church, which has been on the edge of schism since the 2003 election of openly gay bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire touched off a firestorm of debate and controversy.
		Among Conservative Jews, the issue draws a line that is largely generational.
	www.christiancentury.org /article.lasso?id=2084 (787 words)

	Why do conservatives support Israel? - FreeConservatives
		Jews in america voted in impressive numbers against conservative candidates and are on the fore-front opposing most every conservative idea.
		My reference to American Jews was simply to point out that the group with the most interest in seeing the united States support Israel was exactly the same group that opposes most of the conservative agenda.
		It appears that the population if Isreal, (Jew), has a death wish towards the Palestinians that is in line with their Nazi nemisis'.
	freeconservatives.com /vb/showthread.php?t=589 (1276 words)

	Conservative Jews at annual convention address shrinking tent, dwindling numbers \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Members of the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly, at their annual convention last week, say their seminaries and day schools have been educating more and more Jews, only to see them flee to other Jewish movements.
		Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, the leading Conservative school, said the exodus of young Conservative Jews with strong religious educations is a key reason the movement is floundering.
		Conservatives have resisted pressure to liberalize core teachings to prevent less observant Jews from leaving for Reform synagogues, which generally give a greater role to gays and to Gentile spouses of congregants.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050317/news_1c17jews.html (481 words)

	Religion Today: Conservative Jews and Evangelicals Parlay
		Conservative Judaism's prime campus was the site for respectful talks between national-level figures from both faiths, with participants agreeing on support for Israel and greater willingness from each side to learn about the other.
		Foxman, Rudin and Yoffie are variously concerned with issues such as abortion, gay marriage, civil unions, embryonic stem-cell research, school prayer and Bible-reading, "intelligent design," abstinence education, the right to die, assisted suicide, judicial nominations and government aid for "faith-based" charities.
		Of course, tradition-minded Jews and Catholics often agree with the evangelical activists.
	www.jewsonfirst.org /05a/sep040.html (884 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s LUMINARIES The End of Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Conservative synagogue never expunged Hebrew from the liturgy, and its supplementary Hebrew school, despite the constraints of a very pared-down curriculum, never gave up the struggle to teach a modicum of Hebrew literacy to the young.
		In the consciousness of Conservative Jews, there yet resonates the affirmation of haverim kol yisrael (all Israel is still joined in fellowship) - despite all the dispersion, dichotomies and politicization that history has visited upon us, Jews remainunited in a tenacious pilgrimage of universal import.
		For Conservative Jews, the Torah is no less sacred, if less central, than it was for their pre-modern ancestors.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/luminaries/monograph/core.shtml (4735 words)

	The Real Reason Liberal Jews Fear Evangelical Christians
		Conservative Christians, however, are our allies in the current struggle for the land of Israel and the Muslims are our adversaries who wish to see the Jewish presence there — if not the Jews themselves — terminated.
		In any case, the strong Christian cultural influence on American life during the first 200 years of the nation’s existence hardly impeded the development of Jewish life in the U.S. It is not at all strange that allies of the present could be adversaries in the future and vice versa.
		Today it is leftists and liberals, not conservative Christians, who threaten the existence of the Jews as a people and who stand in opposition to various aspects of Judaism.
	www.jewsonfirst.org /06a/sep056.html (1217 words)

	The Conservative Lie
		The Conservative movement thus envisioned itself as a safety net—designed to break the fall of Jews committed to Jewish tradition when Orthodoxy inevitably vanished—and as a means of conserving Jewish religious practice in the face of the threat posed by the Reform movement.
		In other words, the Conservative movement's leaders, despite their pledge of allegiance to halachah, have ventured far from the world of Hillel and Shammai's disagreements, which were based on objective, if different, readings of the Written and Oral Torah traditions.
		Not the "wholesale defection of Conservative Jews" to Orthodoxy, but something more modest: to help Conservative Jews already committed to halachah see that "their affiliation is at undeniable and hopeless odds with their ideals," and to invite them to explore the broad and variegated but halachah-committed Orthodox world.
	www.jewishamerica.com /ja/features/ConLie.cfm (4034 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		Conservative Jews are older as a group than the Reform or Orthodox, yet they hold most of the key positions in Jewish communal leadership, contributing to the aging of that leadership.
		Meyers insists the Conservative movement “is strong” and said enrollment in day schools and camps is up, even as the movement’s outreach to young adult Jews is languishing.
		The Conservatives are broadening their embrace of the intermarried just two weeks after Reform leader Rabbi Eric Yoffie proposed at that movement’s biennial that Reform congregations ask non-Jewish spouses to consider conversion.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=15061 (1144 words)

	Conservative Judaism
		The Conservative Jews claim that the long tradition of studying the religion is an indication that Judaism must be interpreted according to the context of the society and time.
		The conservative movement is today very much occupied with whether or not new generations will live as true conservative Jews or not.
		Conservative Judaism has also been active in politics, especially in the Zionist movement from the end of the 19th century.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/jud_con.htm (388 words)

	Will Your Grandchildren be Jewish? Intermarriage Rates & Statistics for Orthodox, Modern Orthodox, Conservative, ...
		There was a time when every Jew could take it for granted that he or she would have Jewish grandchildren with whom to share Seders, Sabbath and other Jewish moments.
		The level of education among Secular, Reform and Conservative Jews has (with a few notable exceptions), remained about the same; their birth rate has declined, and their rate of intermarriage has multiplied.
		Once a Jew intermarries, he or she as an individual remains Jewish, of course, but the likelihood of that person having any Jewish descendants is close to nil (see Demographic Chart attached).
	www.simpletoremember.com /vitals/WillYourGrandchildrenBeJews.htm (2934 words)

	Jewish Post - News - A Light Unto the Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Virtually all Jewish population studies note the large number of Conservative Jews who do not live the life or values that we teach.
		Today, I call upon Conservative Jews to join with me in creating a 21st Century foundation for Jewish living through our own Conservative Compact of Jewish Commitment so that each of us can be an Or LaYehudim.
		Conservative Judaism is steeped in the ideology that Jewish learning is vital but the texts are impotent unless we learn them.
	www.jewishpost.com /jp0804/jpn0804o.htm (997 words)

	USCJ: Conservative Compact
		The establishment of a new Conservative Jewish Compact of concrete behaviors cannot be seen as the definition of Conservative Jewish practice, but, rather a unified effort to create a springboard for further Jewish growth.
		But, as Conservative Jews, we are in the best position to create a balance between a totally closed approach which rejects the intermarried along with the intermarriage, and a totally open approach which has no expectation of inmarriage.
		If each Conservative Jew would put money in an Israel Tzedakah box each week and allocate it to help those who live in Israel or those who want to visit, the impact would be powerful.
	www.uscj.org /Conservative_Compact5780.html (2501 words)

	Conservative responsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Conservative responsa is the body of responsa literature of Conservative Judaism (also known as Masorti Judaism).
		Conservative Jews believe that Orthodoxy had deviated from historical Judaism through an excessive concern with recent codifications of Jewish law.
		The Conservative movement consciously rejects the Orthodox record of Jewish history, which entails near total deference to almost infallible rabbis, and instead holds that a more fluid model is both necessary and theologically and historically justifiable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_responsa (759 words)

	News: Conservative Jews Try to Find Patch of Middle Ground on Gay Issues
		The Committee on Law and Standards, comprised of 25 Conservative rabbis who vote on issues of Jewish law, met last March in closed session to try to reach an agreement on whether and how the movement's view of Jewish law on homosexual behavior should change.
		The Reform movement, meanwhile, believes each individual Jew has the right and the duty to determine the content of that Jew's covenant with God.
		Conservative Jews are wrestling with the same issues that are roiling Protestant denominations, particularly the Episcopal Church, which is on the
	pewforum.org /news/display.php?NewsID=10439 (1411 words)

	Why are Conservative Jews undermining the Bible?
		Conservative Judaism has introduced a new Bible that nullifies the Bible.
		Soon, all 760 Conservative synagogues (and their 1.5 million members) across the nation will be "praying" from a Bible that is not a Bible.
		It is ironic that in the midst of this new genocide taking place against Israel, dumb Jews persist in undoing the Jewish faith.
	www.simpletoremember.com /vitals/conservativebible.htm (739 words)

	Israpundit: Jews who support the Christian right
		By Dennis Prager Jews who support the Christian right are "Uncle Jakes." So says a pro-Israeli Jewish official in his recent column for the Israel Policy Forum, a pro-Israel organization.
		Again, to such minds, "left" and "Jews" are synonymous, and therefore "conservative" and "hostile to Jews" are synonymous.
		Rosenberg's charges that Jews who support Christian conservatives do so from nefarious motives and that Christians who support Israel do so from nefarious motives is typical of the left.
	www.israpundit.com /archives/2005/12/jews_who_suppor.php (700 words)

	Practical Halacha and Home Ritual for Conservative Jews. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Conservative Judaism is firmly based in Halacha, and considers Halacha to be binding on all Jews.
		Since there is no unitary Conservative Halacha, but rather a range of views on various topics, I have attempted to present a centrist view, with some indication of the range of accepted views.
		It is intended for those Conservative Jews who are a point on the learning curve where they may find such a short summary helpful.
	mahadash.com /docs/wiesen/halacha.htm (599 words)

	Conservative Jews reopen debate on gay clergy - theage.com.au
		Conservative Jews reopen debate on gay clergy - theage.com.au
		The move, which is expected to revive a fractious controversy, makes Conservative Judaism the latest major religious group to tackle the debate on homosexuality in the clergy.
		However, the organisation that represents all 800 Conservative synagogues, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, said that left the status of homosexuals unclear.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/03/16/1047749659593.html (191 words)

	LP: Conservative Jews set a conversion campaign
		The new policy is needed to preserve Jewish families in the face of high rates of intermarriage and assimilation among American Jews, said Rabbi Jerome M. Epstein, chief executive officer of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, a union of the 760 Conservative synagogues in the United States and Canada.
		Conservatives -- who attempt to strike a balance between Orthodox Judaism's stricter adherence to Jewish law and the liberalism of the Reform movement -- once were the largest grouping of Jews in the United States.
		The Conservative movement says 1.5 million of them are members, but Leonard Saxe, a demographer and professor of social policy at Brandeis University, said the number is more probably 600,000 to 700,000.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=119943 (1674 words)

	Conservative Jews Seek to Block Orthodox Prayer Plan for Western Wall -- Beliefnet.com
		Andy Sacks, president of the Masorti movement's rabbinical council, told RNS that the expansion, which was initiated by Shmuel Rabinovitch, rabbi of the site and an employee of the religious affairs ministry, "is a complete shattering of the delicate religious status quo" worked out over the years between the government and Reform and Conservative Jews.
		During the 1990s, Conservative and Reform Jews praying in egalitarian fashion at the wall were often attacked, both physically and verbally, by Orthodox Jews who objected to men and women praying together.
		Following an uproar from non-Orthodox American Jews, in 2000 the Israeli government worked out a compromise whereby non-Orthodox Jews were permitted to pray at a part of the southern Western Wall known as Robinson's Arch.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/137/story_13773_1.html (470 words)

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