History of Conservative Judaism

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description

Philosophy

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Imporant leaders in the movement

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Halakha (Jewish law)

Zechariah Frankel - founder of positive-historical Judaism :Solomon Schechter - Creator of Conservative Judaism as a distinct movement :Mathilde Roth Schechter - Founder of Women's League and of Hadassah :[Louis Finkelstein]? Talmud scholar and halakhic expert :Louis Ginzberg Talmud scholar and halakhic expert :[[Saul Lieberman] Talmud scholar :Isaac Klein Halakhist :Robert Gordis Theologian :Abraham Joshua Heschel Theologian and social activist :[Ismar Schorsch]? - Chancellor of JTS :[[Elliot Dorff] Theologian and halakhic expert :[Joel Roth]? Talmud scholar and halakhic expert :[Neil Gillman]? Theologian :[Judith Hauptman]? Talmud scholar Halakha (Jewish law)

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Jewish identity

Jewish identity

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external links A reading list, and more information, is available at: http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/rl/jcu-index.html

External links

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What is Conservative Judaism? http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/02-03.html

[Additional reading]

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[An intro to Conservative Judaism]

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http://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/

[The Rabbinical Assembly]

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http://www.uscj.org/

[The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism]

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http://www.jtsa.edu/

[The Jewish Theological Seminary of America]

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http://www.masorti.org/

[The Masorti Movement]