Conservative judaism

Tisha B’Av and the threat within: How baseless hatred endangers Israel, Jews today - opinion

We expect world Jewry to understand us and support us without reservation, while significant parts of Israeli society continue to despise them and deny the legitimacy of their Jewish identity.

|ByOZ BIN NUN
A SCREENSHOT of a cartoon of MK Gilad Kariv alongside Palestinian flags, shared on social media.
Rabbi Robin Fryer Bodzin stands in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Rabbi warns proposed Kotel bill could criminalize egalitarian prayer

Thirteen years ago, on the morning of Rosh Chodesh Adar, Rabbi Elyse Goldstein was detained at the Kotel after joining a group praying with Women of the Wall in the women’s section.

|ByJTA/ RABBI ROBYN FRYER BODZIN
Andrew Ginsburg celebrates after winning a JFK Jr. look-alike competition in the West Village.

Meet the Connecticut dad and children’s book author who won a JFK Jr. lookalike contest

“He was Catholic. I’m Jewish. I married a Jew. He married a goy,” joked Andrew Ginsburg, who has been inundated with comments that he resembles the late John F. Kennedy Jr. since he was 22.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
Rabbi Gesa Ederberg is installed as the president of the Rabbinical Assembly at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, New Jersey, March 11, 2026.

Berlin rabbi makes history as first European to head Conservative rabbis’ association

Ederberg is a veteran rabbi of Berlin’s first official egalitarian congregation on Oranienburger Strasse — and this month she reached a new milestone.

|ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA

Cleveland rabbi sentenced to prison for soliciting underage sex

Among those who testified on Stephen Weiss’ behalf in a bid for leniency was a prominent rabbi in the Conservative movement.

MARCH 2, 2023ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Illustrative photo of handcuffs

Reform and Conservative Jews feel discrimination in Israel - Jewish Agency chairman

Why do Reform and Conservative Jews feel unappreciated in Israel?

MARCH 1, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
REFORM JEWS hold up broken hearts as they demonstrate outside the Knesset in 1997 against pending legislation by ultra-religious parties to tighten their grip on conversion issues.

Western Wall compromise: Israel's High Court to hold hearing

This is the first hearing taking place on the issue in the past two years and the first during this government. 

FEBRUARY 28, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Members of the Women of the Wall, Conservative and Reform Movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 4, 2022.

15 Conservative Jewish orgs. protest Israeli judicial reform

The Conservative Jewish organizations noted: "Our love for Israel compels us to action, just as it has in every past crisis the State of Israel has faced."

FEBRUARY 19, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Israelis protest against the government’s proposed judicial reforms in Tel Aviv on February 4.

Diaspora min. bashes radio host for attacking Conservative, Reform Jews

Chikli argued that any amendments to the Law of Return have a "dramatic influence" on Diaspora Jews.

FEBRUARY 5, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
MK AMICHAI CHIKLI attends the House Committee meeting in the Knesset last week at which he was declared a defector.

Amichai Chikli's father: He has 'openness, tolerance of inclusion' - interview

Last week, Chikli emphasized that he was not a member of the Conservative movement and did not grow up as a Conservative Jew.

JANUARY 15, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
MK AMICHAI CHIKLI attends the House Committee meeting in the Knesset last week at which he was declared a defector.

Channel 14 fined for excluding Reform, Conservative Jewish content

The Reform movement submitted several requests to Channel 14 to be inclusive in the past.

JANUARY 11, 2023ByDAVID WERTHEIM/WALLA!
Channel 14 workers and supporters protest against Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid outside Tel Aviv Government Complex on October 11, 2022.

Diaspora Minister Chikli clarifies: 'I’m not a Conservative Jew'

Even though his father is a Conservative Rabbi Chikli does not identify with the movement, the new Diaspora Minister explained.

JANUARY 9, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
NEW DIASPORA Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli is pledging to invest in ‘strengthening Jewish identity and teaching Hebrew to Jews in the Diaspora.’

Who is Amichai Chikli, the incoming Diaspora affairs minister?

Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Chikli late Wednesday night and informed him of the new role he will begin on Thursday.

DECEMBER 28, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
MK AMICHAI CHIKLI attends the House Committee meeting in the Knesset last week at which he was declared a defector.

Jewish people from all over the world are family, we are family - opinion

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef called Conservative and Reform Judaism a "new religion," earlier this month.

DECEMBER 21, 2022ByNOLAN LEBOVITZ
SEPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef delivers an address. ‘I feel that it’s important for me to remind Rabbi Yosef that Israel was established to bring Jews in the Diaspora close to her, not to ostracize them,’ says the writer.