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Rabbi Stuart Kelman in March 2025. (Courtesy)
Posted inObituaries

Stuart Kelman, founding rabbi of Berkeley’s Netivot Shalom, dies at 84

by Sue Fishkoff June 3, 2026June 3, 2026

Rabbi Stuart Kelman, the founding spiritual leader of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, was known as much for reviving interest in traditional practices as for innovation in Jewish life. Prominent […]

A wedding chuppah
Posted inReligion

Conservative movement apologizes for decades of discouraging intermarriage

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev December 18, 2025December 19, 2025
Rabbi Ari Yehuda Saks
Posted inReligion

Third-generation Conservative rabbi resigns from movement after facing punishment for performing intermarriages

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev August 11, 2025August 11, 2025
Groom crushes glass in Jewish wedding ceremony.
Posted inU.S.

In a first for Conservative Judaism, synagogue allows clergy to participate in interfaith weddings

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev July 2, 2025July 2, 2025
A 2017 event in Jerusalem commemorating the 120th anniversary of the first World Zionist Congress. (Wikimedia)
Posted inU.S.

Conservative movement softens support for two-state solution

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld April 8, 2025April 10, 2025
An electric car charges in a station. (Photo/JTA-Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inReligion

Conservative rabbis endorse use of electric cars on Shabbat, but divisions over driving remain

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg July 27, 2023
American Jewish University in Bel Air, California. (Photo/Wikimedia-Cbl62 CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inCalifornia

Former rabbinical students complain to Conservative movement about sexism at LA seminary

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward April 18, 2023
Rabbi Harold Kravitz in 2013, leading a Torah study group at Adath Jeshurun Congregation. (Photo/Forward-Lee Prohofsky)
Posted inReligion

‘Trying to balance values’: new Conservative head rabbi on intermarriage, inclusion and Israel

by Sheree R. Curry and Forward June 9, 2022
“Na la’amod" means “please stand” in Hebrew, and is a non-gendered way to announce a person about to receive Torah honors. (Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inReligion

Non-gendered language for calling Jews to the Torah gets Conservative movement approval

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
A streaming Shabbat service in Minnesota got explicit when a couple engaged in sexual activity during a bat mitzvah. (JTA illustration)
Posted inU.S.

Couple’s Shabbat Zoom sex stream raises eyebrows — and renews questions about online services

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 3, 2022

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