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But while Jews overall are a strongly liberal, Democratic group, there are pockets of conservatism and Republicanism within the Jewish population. On these measures partisanship and ideology , the only other U. This exceeds the share of the general public that says they are registered to vote.
The strong Democratic leanings of Jews carry over to their views of Obama. For the most part, Obama receives high approval ratings across a variety of Jewish subgroups. Jews are strong supporters of gay rights. More generally, the current survey of U. Eight-in-ten Jews by religion and nine-in-ten Jews of no religion say homosexuality should be accepted by society. Jewish Republicans are less accepting of homosexuality than Jewish Democrats and independents.
Orthodox Jews — especially the Ultra-Orthodox — are far less accepting of homosexuality than are other Jews. Modern Orthodox Jews are more accepting of homosexuality than Ultra-Orthodox Jews, but they still express less acceptance of homosexuality than do Jews overall.
Adler himself and Louis Ginzberg, representing the traditionalist point of view, controlled the direction and official pronouncements of the movement.
Conservative Judaism enjoyed its greatest period of growth during the two decades following World War II. Across the East, Midwest, and Sunbelt regions of the country, returning veterans and their growing families moved to the newly expanding suburbs, creating numerous houses of worship.
Between and , the United Synagogue grew from to member congregations. For the children of East European immigrants, the Conservative synagogue represented an acceptable balance of tradition and change. As the movement expanded rapidly and faced the new conditions of Jewish life in suburbia, the tension between school and denomination also increased.
Rabbinical Assembly leaders such as Milton Steinberg and Solomon Goldman, critical of this focus, urged JTS to do more to build up the institutions of the movement. The Rabbinical Assembly took the lead in publishing a series of prayer books for use in Conservative congregations, more traditional than the Reconstructionist editions yet enriched with modern supplemental readings and, in selected passages, unorthodox in wording.
This reorganization was a revolt against Boaz Cohen and the traditionalists. As a result, the majority ruled in that it is permissible to ride to the synagogue on the Sabbath while a minority opinion forbade this practice. In the early s, the CJLS was going to take unilateral action to solve the problem of agunot chained women whose husbands gave them a civil divorce but would not give them a get religious divorce.
During the post-war years of growth, Conservative Judaism developed educational and social institutions for youth. It provided Hebrew and Jewish educational grounding for tens of thousands of youngsters, who became the nucleus of the lay and rabbinic leadership of the movement in the late 20 th century. In , the United Synagogue created United Synagogue Youth, which brought tens of thousands of young people closer to Judaism through its chapters, kinnusim , camps, Israel and European pilgrimages, and USY-on-Wheels.
Day schools and supplemental schools currently coexist, with increasing numbers of Conservative families opting to give their children the more intensive schooling, especially in the primary grades.
The national scope of Conservative Judaism after World War II contributed to the decentralization of denominational authority. Conservative Judaism entered a more challenging era after Because of assimilation, the movement experienced a wide disparity between the high level of commitment to religious practice on the part of its rabbinic leadership and the lower degree observed by the majority of its laity. The resurgence of Orthodoxy, increasingly evident by , both impressed and dismayed Conservative observers.
Denominational leaders debated their response to the new conditions, traditionalists urging a reemphasis of commitment to halacha , and liberals calling for outreach to the disaffected by means of bolder departures from tradition. The main subject of this debate in the ss was the role of women within the Conservative synagogue, an issue raised by the growth of feminism as an American social concern. In , the CJLS voted in a near-tie to count women in the minyan prayer quorum.
It now has its own rabbinical association, law committee, and rabbinical school. By , of the more than 1, members of the Rabbinical Assembly were women. A survey showed that women rabbis served in many rabbinic capacities but had not yet achieved equality as congregational rabbis or in terms of compensation. In recent years, the CJLS has debated the topic of women as witnesses. In any case, the attitude to women in Jewish law signaled a sea-change in the Conservative movement.
It reflected the emergence of American-born, Conservative-movement educated faculty members as well as a greater degree of engagement between JTS and the denomination. The debate over gender roles within Conservative Judaism spurred both a self-definition and a reaffirmation of boundaries that the denomination had for so long avoided.
In , the various agencies of the movement jointly issued Emet ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism. However, since it was written by a committee of 25 people from various aims and wings of the movement, many felt that it attempted to be all things to all people.
Many of those same values were stressed by Louis Finkelstein in an address to the Rabbinical Assembly in Thus, despite many changes, the Conservative movement has maintained many of the same core values throughout its history.
The committee grew from five members to 15 members to 25 members and, as time went on, an attempt was made to appoint rabbis from the right, left, and center, and from the Rabbinical Assembly, JTS, and the United Synagogue. The movement has traditionally sought to adapt Jewish tradition to modern sensibilities and sees itself as politically progressive and social-justice oriented while emphasizing personal choice in matters of ritual observance.
Known as Masorti traditional Judaism outside of North America, Conservative Judaism sees Jewish law as obligatory, though in practice there is an enormous range of observance among Conservative Jews. The movement has historically represented a midpoint on the spectrum of observance between Orthodox and Reform, adopting certain innovations like driving to synagogue but nowhere else on Shabbat and gender-egalitarian prayer in most Conservative synagogues , but maintaining the traditional line on other matters, like keeping kosher and intermarriage.
While it continues to bar its rabbis from officiating at interfaith weddings , the movement has liberalized its approach to intermarriage somewhat in recent years. About 18 percent of American Jews identify as Conservative. Orthodox Jews are defined by their adherence to a traditional understanding of Jewish law as interpreted by rabbinic authorities over the centuries.
Hallmarks of Orthodox religious life include strict observance of Shabbat no driving, working, turning electricity on or off , or handling money and of kosher laws. Though numerically the smallest of the big three — some 10 percent of American Jews identify as Orthodox— Orthodox Jews have larger than average families and their offspring are statistically more likely to remain observant Jews.
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