On March 26, I attended the Shefa Conference, the first-ever event organized by the Shefa Network. Shefa bills itself as the “Conservative Jewish Activists Network,”
Late last night seventeen students were arrested at UVA after a four day sit-in as part of their ongoing living wage campaign. (If you’re not
According to a stop-the-press article in the Forward (and additional sources who have asked to remain anonymous), the Jewish Theological Seminary is poised to select
The official word from Rabbi Jan Kaufman, Director of Special Projects for the Rabbinical Assembly: There were two matters concerning the Law Committee which were
From the official daily update on the Conservative rabbis’ convention in Mexico City: * Joe Wernik and his etrog box (blah blah blah): three sentences.
This just in: At least one Rabbinical Assembly member has reported that the Conservative rabbis gathered this week in Mexico for their annual meeting have
Last week, the official press release from the Conservative Movement’s Rabbinical Assembly claimed that a decision on the movement’s policy concerning homosexuality had been put
Hazon just announced the opening of registration for Tuv Ha’aretz 2006. Go sign up– everyone’s doing it! Tuv Ha’aretz is a Jewish Community Supported Agriculture
As most of the Jewish and much of the non-Jewish world now knows, the Conservative Movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards is meeting today