Conservative Judaism Is Too Important to Fail
Susan Grossman acknowledges the movement’s failings, but sees more reason for hope than despair.
Nothing New Under the Sun
Elliot N. Dorff argues that numbers don’t dictate the strength of a movement, the power of its ideas do.
The Problem Is Not Ideological
Noah Benjamin Bickart of The Jewish Theological Seminary teaches Jews who are passionate about “an egalitarian, halakhic, yet non-fundamentalist Judaism,“ even though they may not call themselves Conservative Jews.
A Movement Strikes Back
Seven leaders and a historian respond to Daniel Gordis’ “Requiem for a Movement.”
Hebrew School Days
When I was nineteen, I saw an ad at the UCLA Career Center for a job teaching “Jewish history through drama,” at the Sunday school of a large nearby temple. It was only a couple of hours a week, but it paid maybe four times as much as my job at the Student Store. Needless to say, I hadn’t taught…
“Why Bother?” A Rejoinder
Is Renewal a path toward the future or a road away from Judaism?
“Why Bother?” A Response
Shaul Magid lays out a case for "bothering" with Jewish Renewal.
What Jesus Wasn’t: Zealot
When Fox News' Lauren Green asked Reza Aslan why, as a Muslim, he would write a book about Jesus, he answered that it was his job as an historian of religions—which would have been a good answer, if it had been true.