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Illustrates how the American Conservative Movement in Judaism can continue to prosper amidst ideological and institutional challenges.

Viewing the Conservative Movement at a turning point, this book analyzes the problems facing the religious movement with the largest synagogue membership in the American Jewish community and outlines a plan of action for the future. Elazar and Geffen suggest: clarifying ideology, mission, and purpose, finding the right balance between traditionalists and advocates of change, unifying movement institutions in a cooperative effort, staunching the decline of membership to the left, recapturing the loyalty of lapsed adherents, closing the gap in observance between the laity and the standard bearers of the movement, developing the Movement in Israel and world-wide, and strengthening ties with Jewish federations and other Jewish communal bodies. The authors propose that the Conservative Movement''s remedying of these problems will benefit not just American, but all world Jewry.

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      Publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
      Publication Date: 9/11/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780791446904, 978-0791446904
      ISBN10: 0791446905

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Illustrates how the American Conservative Movement in Judaism can continue to prosper amidst ideological and institutional challenges.

      Viewing the Conservative Movement at a turning point, this book analyzes the problems facing the religious movement with the largest synagogue membership in the American Jewish community and outlines a plan of action for the future. Elazar and Geffen suggest: clarifying ideology, mission, and purpose, finding the right balance between traditionalists and advocates of change, unifying movement institutions in a cooperative effort, staunching the decline of membership to the left, recapturing the loyalty of lapsed adherents, closing the gap in observance between the laity and the standard bearers of the movement, developing the Movement in Israel and world-wide, and strengthening ties with Jewish federations and other Jewish communal bodies. The authors propose that the Conservative Movement''s remedying of these problems will benefit not just American, but all world Jewry.

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