History of Conservative Judaism

History & overview · every faith gets one

Halakha binds — and develops.

The middle path: Jewish law as real and obligatory, and also historical — changing, carefully, from inside, through scholarship rather than abandonment.

The founding

No single founder — Conservative Judaism accreted rather than began.

What it holds

The divine. One God.

Death and after. The world to come.

The line

descent is public here — where it came from, what left it

Judaism — c. 1000 BCE Conservative Judaism — 1886 CE

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