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| - Homosexuality has been a pivotal issue for Conservative Judaism since the 1980s. A major Jewish denomination in the U.S., Conservative Judaism has wrestled with homosexuality as a matter of Jewish law and institutional policy. As with other branches of Judaism debating homosexuality, Conservative Jews faced both long-standing, Biblically-rooted rabbinic prohibitions on homosexual conduct as well as increasing demands for change in the movements policies toward gays and lesbians. Previously, the Conservative movement had changed its policies toward women, for example, by allowing the ordination of women as rabbis in 1983. Similarly, the Conservative leadership was asked to approve homosexual conduct, ordain gay and lesbian rabbis, and permit gay marriage under Conservative Halakha (Jewish l
- Conservative Judaism (also known as Masorti Judaism outside of the United States and Canada) is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s. The principles of Conservative Judaism include:
* A deliberately non-fundamentalist teaching of Jewish principles of faith;
* A positive attitude toward modern culture; and
* An acceptance of both traditional rabbinic modes of study and modern scholarship and critical text study when considering Jewish religious texts.
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| - Homosexuality has been a pivotal issue for Conservative Judaism since the 1980s. A major Jewish denomination in the U.S., Conservative Judaism has wrestled with homosexuality as a matter of Jewish law and institutional policy. As with other branches of Judaism debating homosexuality, Conservative Jews faced both long-standing, Biblically-rooted rabbinic prohibitions on homosexual conduct as well as increasing demands for change in the movements policies toward gays and lesbians. Previously, the Conservative movement had changed its policies toward women, for example, by allowing the ordination of women as rabbis in 1983. Similarly, the Conservative leadership was asked to approve homosexual conduct, ordain gay and lesbian rabbis, and permit gay marriage under Conservative Halakha (Jewish law). The movement's policies are thereby relevant to Conservative synagogues, United Synagogue Youth, Jewish Theological Seminary, and its network of private schools and summer camps. In 2005, a group known as Keshet Rabbis ("rainbow rabbis") was established as an LGBT-welcoming program, not officially sponsored by the Rabbinical Assembly.
- Conservative Judaism (also known as Masorti Judaism outside of the United States and Canada) is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s. The principles of Conservative Judaism include:
* A deliberately non-fundamentalist teaching of Jewish principles of faith;
* A positive attitude toward modern culture; and
* An acceptance of both traditional rabbinic modes of study and modern scholarship and critical text study when considering Jewish religious texts. Conservative Judaism has its roots in the school of thought known as Positive-Historical Judaism, developed in 1850s Germany as a reaction to the more liberal religious positions taken by Reform Judaism. The term conservative was meant to signify that Jews should attempt to conserve Jewish tradition, rather than reform or abandon it, and does not imply the movement's adherents are politically conservative. Because of this potential for confusion, a number of Conservative Rabbis have proposed renaming the movement, and outside of the United States and Canada, in many countries including Israel and the UK, it is today known as Masorti Judaism (Hebrew for "Traditional"). In the United States and Canada, the term Conservative, as applied, does not always indicate that a congregation is affliliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the movement's central institution and the one to which the term, without qualifier, usually refers. Rather, it is sometimes employed by unaffiliated groups to indicate a range of beliefs and practices more liberal than is affirmed by the Orthodox, and more traditional than the more liberal Jewish denominations (Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism). The moniker Conservadox is sometimes employed to refer to the right wing of this spectrum, although "Traditional" is used as well (as in the Union for Traditional Judaism).
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