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    Items with the tag:

    conservative judaism

    Essay

    How Jew­ish­ness Comes and Goes

    Ben Purk­ert
    July 31, 2023
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    The Rab­bi Who Prayed with Fire
    Rachel Sharona Lewis
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    The Won­der­ing Jew: Israel and the Search for Jew­ish Identity
    Micah Goodman, Eylon Levy (trans.)
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    Fic­tion
    Two Jews = Three Shuls
    San­dra Tankoos
    Interview

    It’s a Whole Spiel: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Kather­ine Locke and Lau­ra Silverman

    Kather­ine Locke, Lau­ra Silverman
    September 9, 2019
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    Mod­ern Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism: Evolv­ing Thought and Practice
    Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff; Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, fwd.
    Essay

    Three Sets of Dishes

    Ellen Uman­sky is the author of The For­tu­nate Ones, a nov­el released last week about the fate of a Chaim Sou­tine paint­ing left behind in Vien­na. Ellen will be…
    Ellen Uman­sky
    February 20, 2017
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    The Sacred Call­ing: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate
    Rabbi Rebecca Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf, eds.
    Cover of The Chameleon in the Closet: A Conservative Jewish Mother Reaches Out to Her Orthodox Sons
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    The Chameleon in the Clos­et: A Con­ser­v­a­tive Jew­ish Moth­er Reach­es Out to Her Ortho­dox Sons
    BJ Rosen­feld
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    The Obser­vant Life: The Wis­dom of Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism for Con­tem­po­rary Jews
    Martin Cohen and Michael Katz, eds.; Arnold M. Eisen, fwd.
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    A Place in the Tent: Inter­mar­riage and Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism
    Mark Bloom; Ted Feldman; Gordon Freeman; Stuart Kelman; Harry Manhoff; Mimi Weisel; Rose Levinson; Glenn Massarano
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    The Birth of Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Dis­ci­ples and the Cre­ation of an Amer­i­can Reli­gious Movement
    Michael R. Cohen
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    The Unfold­ing Tradition
    Elliot N. Dorff
    Essay

    What We Believe

    On Mon­day, Darin Strauss wrote about wrestling with faith.I’ve done an infor­mal poll — I admit, it’s very infor­mal — among Jews I know: What do we believe?…
    Darin Strauss
    August 24, 2011

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