The congregational arm of the Conservative movement ran a cumulative budget deficit of more than $5 million over the past two years, JTA has learned, renewing longstanding concerns for the future of one of the movement\’s key institutional pillars.
Rabbi Irwin Groner, a former president of the Conservative movement\’s Rabbinical Assembly, has died.
Top figures from the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements joined an interfaith call for greater gun controls in the wake of last week\’s school massacre in Connecticut.
A Conservative Jewish day school will not renew its Boy Scouts charter because of the organization\’s policy excluding gay and lesbian adults as leaders.
Is it the individual citizen who is more important in a free society, or is it the government? It’s easy to see this as the philosophical choice during this election season: One side seems to favor the liberty of the individual, while the other favors the primacy of the government.
Some thoughts for Rosh Hashanah: If we took a vote on what trait we human beings most value, goodness would undoubtedly win. Certainly goodness is the trait that we most want everyone else to possess. But if we say we value goodness above everything else — and surely Judaism does — why aren\’t there more good people? A big reason is that it is easier to value other things — including, and especially, positive things — more than goodness. So it\’s much easier to be just about anything rather than good. It’s easier to be religious than to be good.
Whole barbecued pigs, cheerleaders and elegies to skinny-dipping farmers\’ daughters. That was the organized noise Sunday night at the opening bash of the Republican National Convention at Tropicana Field, the home of Major League Baseball\’s Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg.
It shouldn\’t have taken Todd Akin\’s crackpot contraception comment to alert us that Paul Ryan thinks rape is just another \”method of conception.\”
More than 600 rabbis joined a campaign initiative called Rabbis for Obama. Obama for America announced Tuesday that Rabbis for Obama is designed to \”engage and mobilize grassroots supporters.\”
Reform and Conservative rabbinical leaders called for increased gun controls in the wake of a spate of shootings.
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