JEWISH PRESS
Conservative Judaism seeks to ‘rebrand’ as numbers plummet
by Ari Soffer
January 4, 2016

The American Conservative Judaism Movement is embarking on a major PR campaign as it attempts to counter rapidly dwindling numbers in the United States. Conservative Judaism has tended to market itself as something “in between” halakhic or Orthodox Judaism, and the Reform Movement. Despite its name, Conservative Judaism is decidedly liberal; it has “annulled” the Torah’s ban on homosexual relationships and even conducts gay marriages, for example. Most Conservative leaders also reject the Divine nature of the Torah. On the other hand, unlike Reform Judaism, the Conservative Movement still does not sanction intermarriage…Today roughly one million American Jews identify with the Conservative Movement.READ MORE