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The wedding of Molly Kazin, who is Jewish, and Evan Marshall, who is not, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Nov. 20, 2021. Though Kazin grew up in a Conservative congregation, she assumed she could not get a rabbi in the movement to preside at her wedding, and found one through the group where she works, 18Doors, which supports relationships between Jews and non-Jews.
Posted inU.S.

More Conservative rabbis struggle with interfaith marriage ban — and some are flouting it

Debra Nussbaum Cohen by Debra Nussbaum Cohen and Forward May 13, 2022
American Jewish University in Bel Air, California. (Photo/Wikimedia-Cbl62 CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inCalifornia

One of 2 Conservative rabbinical schools in the US is slashing tuition — by nearly 80%

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA March 24, 2022
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" on sale at a French bookstore in 2017. (Photo/JTA-ActuaLitté-Flickr Commons)
Posted inLetters

The ‘Maus’ hole; Sexual abuse at Camp Arazim; J. archives are a treasure; etc.

by J. Readers February 18, 2022
An aerial view of American Jewish University's former campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy AJU)
Posted inCalifornia

American Jewish University is selling ‘all or part’ of its Los Angeles campus

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA February 11, 2022February 11, 2022
Members of the Women of the Wall movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, March 8, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Hadas Parush-Flash90)
Posted inNews

‘Infuriating and upsetting’: Liberal Jewish movements condemn Israeli PM’s decision not to implement Western Wall agreement

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA February 1, 2022
Women and children carry Torah scrolls from an old synagogue building to a new building in Nabagoye, Uganda. (Photo/Courtesy Be’chol Lashon)
Posted inNews

‘Who gets to define Judaism?’ Israel rejects Ugandan Jew’s application for citizenship again

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA December 16, 2021December 16, 2021
Rabbis Becca Walker (left) and Ariella Rosen became the first same-sex rabbinical couple to be married in the Conservative movement. (Photo/JTA-Kelly Prizel Photography)
Posted inUnions

Their same-sex rabbinical wedding was a historic first for the Conservative movement

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA November 10, 2021
A rooftop view to the Jewish Theological Seminary and nearby buildings. (Photo/JTA-Education Images-Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

In a shift, Conservative movement publicly lists the rabbis it has expelled and suspended

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA October 25, 2021October 25, 2021
Rabbi Shira Stutman discusses circumcision during a class for converts to Judaism at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, DC on December 5, 2013.. (Photo/JTA-Linda Davidson-The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

These Jews want to normalize not circumcising — and they want synagogues to help

by Ben Harris and JTA October 8, 2021December 7, 2021
USY members celebrate at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's 2015 convention. (Photo/JTA-Andrew Langdal)
Posted inU.S.

Conservative movement to launch investigation of sexual abuse allegations at youth program

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

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