conservative Archives – Jewish Journal

In Brooklyn, Conservative and Orthodox Jews Quarrel Over Rental of School Space

Debra Nussbaum Cohen December 9, 2019

Conservative synagogue body restructures, reduces dues

Jewish Journal June 14, 2011

The umbrella body for Conservative congregations will undergo a major restructuring that includes a significant staff reorganization and dues reductions.

A pioneering minyan celebrates double chai birthday

Amy Klein November 2, 2007

Pressman and the group did create another entity, what has become known as \”The Library Minyan,\” named for the downstairs library where the 15 families began to meet weekly to pray. Members organized and participated in all parts of the service (especially the weekly sermon), discussed all aspects of Judaism and debated the increasingly complex issues of the changing times.Thirty-six years later, the Library Minyan, with its opportunities for engagement and intellectual rigor is seen as having helped to start a revolution — empowering lay leaders in the essential structure of spiritual leadership. It has become a model for many Conservative and Reform congregations seeking to create alternatives both within and outside the fold of conventional synagogue structure, and has allowed individual congregations to morph it into new and ever-changing incarnations.This weekend, the Library Minyan will celebrate its double-chai anniversary (two times \”life\”) with a Shabbaton Nov. 2-4 that will remember the past but also look toward the future.

A congregation grows in Whittier — Hispanic outreach blooms

Roberto Loiederman September 21, 2006

As the jewish population in the area east of Los Angeles has dwindled — and as the Conservative congregation has aged — Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak has reached out to the Spanish-speaking community in the area.

Them and Us

Rob Eshman June 1, 2006

At 81, frail of body but sharp-tongued and wise, Rabbi Schulweis has made it his mission to preach the gospel of conversion to the Jews. That is we, as individuals and as a people, must seek and embrace converts. Doing so will not only improve Jewish life but improve our own lives as Jews.

PASSOVER – The Model Seder Begets Model Students

Julie Gruenbaum Fax April 6, 2006

Lingering clouds huddle at the eastern edge of Los Angeles\’ clear blue skyline, casting a dusty shadow over the snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains. Follow one of those meandering white trails down the mountain, and you\’ll find yourself at Weizmann Jewish Community Day School in the eastern foothills of Pasadena, where 38 students and 11 staff members occupy a stronghold of Jewish education in an area of Southern California not known for its overall Jewishness.