Conservative movement

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.

Rabbi Gesa Ederberg is installed as the president of the Rabbinical Assembly at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, New Jersey, March 11, 2026.
Candles are placed next to a picture of Charlie Kirk during a vigil under the line "In Memory of Charlie Kirk, for freedom, patriotism and justice" in front of the Embassy of the United States in Berlin, Germany September 11, 2025.

Charlie Kirk's assassination: When debate dies by bullet - opinion

Political activist and commentator Charlie Kirk appears at a Utah Valley University speaking event in Orem, Utah, US, September 10, 2025

Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk assassinated in Utah Valley University shooting

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Conservative rabbi resigns from movement after facing punishment for performing intermarriages


Conservative movement leader sees widening rift between US and Israel Jewry

The power lies in Israel to seriously address the concerns of progressive Jews, who make up the large majority of Jews in North America.

CONTENTIOUS TIMES in America are bringing out antisemitism.

Keep dreaming: The one and only authentic Judaism

We are embroiled in controversy over the Kotel, conversion, conscription and Sabbath desecration.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kotel

Conservative movement reaffirms intermarriage ban, but welcomes interfaith couples

Conservative Judaism aims to maintain fealty to traditional Jewish law while remaining relevant to the modern world.

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Conservative movement gives PM chance to repent ahead of High Holy Days

The open letter addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discusses the North American Conservative movement's feelings of betrayal after the Western Wall and Conversion crises.

Rabbi Steven Wernick, CEO of USCJ (The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism) and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, CEO of the Rabbinical Assembly hand delivered an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to  Dani Dayan, Consul General of Israel in New York, September 7, 2017.

American Jewish converts ‘hurt’ and ‘humiliated’ by conversion bill

"Israel’s latest conversion bill is only a more institutionalized manifestation of this social discomfort."

Dorian Stuber and his wife, Marianne Tettlebaum, at the Jewish Federation of Arkansas Tikkun Olam banquet in Fall 2016

Rivlin: Israelis value Diaspora Jews for their ‘deep pockets’

President Reuven Rivlin lamented that many Israelis "still do not see strengthening the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora as an issue at the root of the existence of the Jewish people."

Rivlin speaks in Jerusalem at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

The future of Judaism is at stake

The current crisis is important not only because of what happens at the Western Wall and the relations between Israel and American Jewry, but because the very nature of Judaism is being undermined.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the stones of the Western Wall