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Conservative Judaism Is Too Important to Fail

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Susan Grossman argues for the revitalization of Conservative Judaism, emphasizing the importance of returning to core values and traditions while embracing modern influences. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish LawConservative JudaismSpiritualityDaniel GordisEgalitarianismInterfaith FamiliesMasorti MovementCommunity BuildingTradition And Change

Places mentioned

United States
"The Pew study indicates that these reasons are no longer compelling for the majority of American Jews."
Israel
"In Israel, where increasing willingness of young Israelis to consider a bi-national (aka non-Jewish) State of Israel because ultra-Orthodox coercion has alienated them from their Jewish identities, Conservative Judaism, through our Masorti movement, can literally save the Jewish soul and the Jewish nature of the Jewish State by providing Israelis a modern yet meaningful and traditional way to live as Jews in the Jewish homeland."
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