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	Conservative Judaism
		Conservative Judaism attempts to combine a positive attitude toward modern culture, acceptance of critical secular scholarship regarding Judaism's sacred texts and commitment to Jewish observance.
		Conservative Judaism believes that scholarly study of Jewish texts indicates that Judaism has constantly been evolving to meet the needs of the Jewish people in varying circumstances, and that a central halachic authority can continue the halachic evolution today.
		Conservative Judaism holds that the laws of the Torah and Talmud are of divine origin, and thus mandates the following of halacha (Jewish law).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/conservatives.html (574 words)

	Conservative Judaism
		Conservative Judaism comes midway between Orthodoxy and Reform, intellectually liberal in matters of belief, but conservative in matters of religious practice.
		In Europe the origins of Conservative Judaism can be traced to the establishment of a "Jewish Theological Seminary" at Breslau (Wroclaw), and the decision to appoint the moderate Zacharias Frankel (1805-75) as its first principal rather than the more radical Avraham Geiger (1810-1884) (See Reform Judaism).
		Conservative Jews in Israel and elsewhere prefer to be known by the Hebrew term Masorti ("traditional").
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/judaism/conserv.html (407 words)

	Judaism
		Judaism is often used for the whole tradition of the religion of the Jews.
		Judaism was surpassed only by the religion of Akhenaten and Zoroastrianism as the first monotheistic religions in the world.
		Judaism is a religion of "waiting", waiting for Messiah, the god sent ruler who will liberate the Jews and bring back justice and security to the earth.
	i-cias.com /e.o/judaism.htm (2559 words)

	WORLD RELIGIONS: JUDAISM
		Judaism teaches that even if a voice from heaven contradicts the consensus of the sages, it (the heavenly voice) is to be rejected.
		Judaism believes God’s will is primarily found in the Mosaic Law, as it has been elaborated and applied to changing circumstances through the centuries.
		In rabbinic Judaism, good and evil are always possibilities for man, but his dignity and basic goodness requires that he be free to tip the scales in either direction, and his inclination is to choose the good.
	sub.namb.net /root/resources/beliefbulletins/religions/judaism.asp (2171 words)

	Judaism 101: Movements of Judaism
		It was formally organized as the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in by Dr. Solomon Schechter in 1913, although its roots in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America stretch back into the 1880s.
		Conservative Judaism maintains that the truths found in Jewish scriptures and other Jewish writings come from G-d, but were transmitted by humans and contain a human compontent.
		Conservative Judaism generally accepts the binding nature of halakhah, but believes that the Law should change and adapt, absorbing aspects of the predominant culture while remaining true to Judaism's values.
	www.jewfaq.org /movement.htm (2311 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s LUMINARIES The End of Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nor does Conservative Judaism occupy the center of the contemporary religious spectrum because it is an arbitrary and facile composite of what may be found on the left or the right.
		Conservative Jews are the backbone of Federation leadership in North America and the major source of its annual campaign.
		This is not to say that Conservative Judaism divests the diaspora of all spiritual value or demands of all Jews to settle in Israel.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/luminaries/monograph/core.shtml (4735 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.
		He meant that elements of traditional Judaism had to be investigated, and that elements of the Written (Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament) and Oral Law (codified in the Mishnah and interpreted in the Talmud) that had been defined for a specific period of time should be reformed, but nothing more.
		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)

	Conservative Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Conservative coalition splintered in 1963, when advocates of the Reconstructionist philosophy of Mordecai Kaplan seceded from the movement to form a distinct Reconstructionist Judaism.
		Conservative Judaism holds that the current text of the Torah is a composite that was redacted together from earlier sources.
		Conservative Judaism, therefore, views that traditional Jewish legal codes must be viewed through the lens of academic criticism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Judaism (4638 words)

	Conservative rabbis, their movement, and American Judaism Judaism - Find Articles
		Day-school education, generally eschewed in the first hundred years of Conservative Judaism, is currently so accepted that the number of students in Solomon Schechter schools has burgeoned to 18,000 within the last decade.
		In the last half of the twentieth century, three issues aroused contentious halakhic debate within Conservative Judaism: the agunah ("chained" woman, whose husband would not grant her a religious divorce), during the 1940s and 1950s; women's inclusion in public ritual and rabbinic ordination, during the 1970s and 1980s; and homosexuality, during the 1990s.
		Conservative Judaism had proudly championed the slogan "Tradition and Change." The movement's debate historically on many issues concerned the proper weighing of these two influences.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0411/is_n3_v44/ai_17422966 (802 words)

	orthodox reform conservative judaism contrasts
		Thus, Conservative Jews are comfortable with the findings of archeological and linguistic research and critical textual study; these reveal that the Torah was redacted together from several sources coming from different times and places.
		Consequently, changes in the laws of Judaism must be made by the rabbis on behalf of the community, as the Tradition requires, and not by individuals on their own.
		The reformers' claim that they were "the true Judaism" had to be based upon a highly sophisticated, historicistic argument that if the prophets or the Pharisees were alive in the nineteenth century, they would have been reform Jews; therefore reform Judaism was authentic, and Orthodoxy was not.
	www.adath-shalom.ca /OCR.htm (4809 words)

	Conservative Judaism - dKosopedia
		Conservative Judaism is a middle ground between Orthodox and Reform, developed in the USA.
		Conservative Judaism believes that G-d wrote the Torah, but the halachic process sometimes does not account for modern circumstances.
		Conservative Jews concentrate on/study Torah in a middle ground between Orthodox and Reform Jews.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Conservative_Judaism (211 words)

	Rabbi David Wolpe says drop the 'Conservative' label to better define Conservative Judaism -- Beliefnet.com
		Conservative Judaism should drop the `Conservative' label to tap its true meaning and reach the faithful.
		Many of us have learned that Conservative Judaism is either a complex ideology (at least we never get a straightforward explanation) or simply a movement that stands in the center between Reform and Orthodoxy.
		In synagogues that do define themselves as Conservative, the congregants often expect halachic observance from their rabbis, yet they are not moved to emulate them.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/180/story_18016_1.html (395 words)

	Conservative Judaism - ReligionFacts
		Conservative Judaism (known as Masorti Judaism outside the USA) is a moderate sect that seeks to avoid the extremes of Orthodox and Reform Judaism.
		Conservative Jews uphold the importance of Jewish nationalism, encouraging the study of Hebrew and support for Zionism.
		Conservative Judaism holds that halakha (Jewish law) is normative, i.e.
	www.religionfacts.com /judaism/denominations/conservative.htm (817 words)

	S.C.J. FAQ: Section 2.3. Who We Are: What is Conservative Judaism?
		Conservative Judaism attempts to combine a positive attitude toward modern culture, acceptance of critical secular scholarship regarding Judaism's sacred texts, and also commitment to Jewish observance.
		Conservative Judaism hold that the laws of the Torah and Talmud are of divine origin, and thus mandates the following of Halakha (Jewish law).
		Conservative Judaism begun to make its presence known in Israel before the 1960s.
	www.shamash.org /lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/02-03.html (1132 words)

	The Sacred Cluster, The Jewish Theological Seminary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Most Israelis have sadly been severed from any meaningful contact with Judaism by the absence of religious alternatives and by the erosion of sacred Jewish content in the secular school system where 75% of Israel's Jewish children are educated.
		The fourth core value is the defining role of Torah in the reshaping of Judaism after the loss of political sovereignty in 63 B.C.E. and the Second Temple in 70 C.E. to the Romans.
		Conservative Jews are rabbinic and not biblical Jews.
	www.jtsa.edu /about/cj/sacredcluster.shtml (4714 words)

	The difference between Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism - Tracing the Tree of Life - Lawrence Kelemen
		Conservative Judaism is not halakhic because Conservative Jews are not halakhic, and increasingly even Conservative rabbis are not halakhic.
		In the history of Conservative Judaism published by the Jewish Theological Seminary, American Hebrew is described as “an unofficial voice for the [Jewish Theological] Seminary, indeed an arm of Seminary propaganda and publicity” (Tradition Renewed, volume 1, p.
		[56] Harold Kushner, “Is the Conservative Movement Halakhic?” in Proceedings of the 1980 Convention (Rabbinical Assembly, 1980).
	www.simpletoremember.com /vitals/ReformConservativeOrthodox.htm (2193 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By ll denominations are riddled with cliches foisted on them by others, as is the case with the classic perception of Conservative Judaism.
		And Rabbi David Wolpe wrote that Conservative Judaism is “crying out for renewal and revitalization,” and that in synagogues that define themselves as Conservative, “the congregants often expect halachic observance from their rabbis, yet they are not moved to emulate them.
		Ironically, argues Rabbi Jerome Epstein, it may be that some of the gravitation of Conservative Jews toward Reform congregations is precisely because of the former’s maintenance of certain standards — for instance, what Epstein calls “a more demanding religious education” or the relatively limited participation in Conservative ritual that is allowed for intermarried families.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=9255 (508 words)

	How Conservative Judaism Makes Decisions in Jewish law halakha
		You also needed to know the varying positions within the Conservative Movement on revelation, the authority of the law, and the ability to change it in order to be able to understand why Conservative rabbis and synagogues vary in their practices in specific areas of Jewish law.
		In the Conservative Movement, congregations are increasingly getting involved in the discussion of important issues in Jewish law, and that is precisely as it should be, for no law has authority unless it becomes part of the concern and practice of the community.
		The most wide ranging example of that is the multitude of issues being discussed and acted upon within the Conservative Movement in redefining the rights and responsibilities of women in Jewish law in light of their new educational and social status.
	www.adath-shalom.ca /dorff158.htm (1413 words)

	Movements of Judaism / Torah 101 / Mechon Mamre
		The different sects or denominations of Judaism are generally referred to as movements. The differences between Jewish movements are not nearly as great as the differences between Christian denominations. The differences between Orthodoxy and Reform Judaism are not much greater than the differences between the liberal and fundamentalist wings of the Baptist denomination of Christianity.
		We have been to services in Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox synagogues, and have found that while there are substantial differences in length, language, and choice of reading materials, the overall structure is surprisingly similar. See Jewish Liturgy for more information about prayer services.
		The liberal movements in the UK are generally more traditional than the Reform movement in the United States. For example, the British Reform movement does not accept patrilineal descent (although the Liberal movement does). See Who Is a Jew.
	www.mechon-mamre.org /jewfaq/movement.htm (309 words)

	Women's League for Conservative Judaism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Migration to the suburbs in the middle of the 20th century spurred massive growth in the number of Conservative synagogues, but no comparable increase has occurred in the past quarter century.
		At best, existing Conservative shuls in areas of in-migration have grown in membership, but a great many Jews reared in Conservative congregations have opted either to join synagogues of other denominations or to avoid synagogue membership entirely in their new homes.
		It is not just that for most contemporary American Jews the authority of historical Judaism has been diminished, not just that the past has a vote but not a veto, Fishman writes.
	www.wlcj.org /outlook_articles/permeable_boundaries.html (1613 words)

	Rabbi Kenneth Cohen - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Having been asked to moderate a discussion on the status of gays and lesbians in Conservative Judaism, I thought it would be best if I approached the subject as a reporter or a teacher might.
		For instance, while most Conservative congregations are egalitarian, with women counted in a minyan, called to the Torah, etc, some Conservative congregations are not.
		The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative Judaism movement decided to postpone until December the decision on the ordination of gay rabbis and the recognition of gay couples.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/rosnerGuest.jhtml?itemNo=692758 (2563 words)

	MavenSearch - Conservative Judaism Jewish Web Directory and Search Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This group is dedicated to the discussion of ideas and practices of conservative Judaism, but not necessarily halacha.
		Conservative Judaism is a quarterly journal which tackles issues of theology, Jewish law and practice, bioethics, and the current problems of Conservative and Masorti Judaism.
		The Conservative Yeshiva is a full time Torah learning institute in Jerusalem for men and women of all backgrounds.
	www.maven.co.il /subjects.asp?S=114 (391 words)

	Traditional Family oriented Conservative Temple in Boca Raton
		The Conservative Movement originated in Germany in the middle of the nineteenth century and centered around the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau, founded in 1854 and directed during its first two decades by Zecharias Frankel (1801-1875).
		However, the founders of the Movement were not interested merely in preserving Judaism in the precise form in which they received it from their immediate fathers.
		The United Synagogue is a grass-roots organization, with the base consisting of its 760 Conservative synagogues, whose delegates elect the central officers and board of directors in odd-numbered years at the biennial convention.
	www.bethamiboca.org (1292 words)

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