''Conservative Judaism'' was a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the

Rabbinical Assembly The Rabbinical Assembly (RA) is the international association of Conservative rabbis. The RA was founded in 1901 to shape the ideology, programs, and practices of the Conservative movement. It publishes prayerbooks and books of Jewish interest, an ...

and the

Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is a Conservative Jewish education organization in New York City, New York. It is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studie ...

from 1945 until 2014.

History

The journal was founded in 1945 under the editorship of Rabbi Leon S. Lang as a publication of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA). In 1968, the journal became a joint project of the RA and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Pamela Susan Nadell Pamela S. Nadell (born 1951) is an American historian, researcher, author, and lecturer focusing on Jewish history. Former President of the Association for Jewish Studies, she currently holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender hi ...

, ''Conservative Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook'', page 314 According to Pamela Nadell, "the quarterly was designed for the elite--Conservative leaders and readers learned in Judaica," and it "remained influential chiefly among the leadership of the Conservative movement."

Leadership

Editors

Its editors were:See ''Conservative Judaism'' vol. 56
/ref> * Leon S. Lang, 1945–1952 * Samuel Dresner, 1955–1964 * Jack Riemer, 1964–1965 * S. Gershon Levi, 1965–1969 *

Mordecai Waxman Mordecai Waxman, Order of St. Gregory the Great, KCSG (February 25, 1917, in Albany – August 10, 2002, in Great Neck, New York), was a prominent rabbi in the Conservative Judaism, Conservative Jewish movement for nearly 60 years. He served as ra ...

, 1969–1974 * Stephen C. Lerner, 1974–1977 * Myron Fenster, 1977–1979 * Arthur A. Chiel, 1979–1980 *

Harold S. Kushner Harold Samuel Kushner (born April 3, 1935) is a prominent American rabbi and author. He is a member of the Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Judaism and served as the congregational rabbi of Temple Israel of Natick, in Natick, Massachusetts, f ...

, 1980–1984 * David Wolf Silverman, 1984–1989 * Shamai Kanter, 1989–1993 * Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, 1993–2000 * Martin Samuel Cohen, 2000-2014 * Benjamin Kramer, 2014

Editorial board members

* Jerome Abrams (1967) *

Jacob Agus Jacob B. Agus (November 8, 1911 – September 26, 1986) was a Polish-born American liberal Conservative rabbi and theologian who played a key role in the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly. Life Jacob Agus was a leading thinker of the Conservative ...

(1951-1952) *

David Aronson David Aronson (October 28, 1923 – July 2, 2015) was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University. Biography Aronson was born in Šiluva, Lithuania in 1923. He taught at Boston University from 1955 to his death in 2015, where he formed ...

(1960) * J. Leonard Azneer (1951) * Ephraim Bennett (1951-1952) * Sidney Bogner (1951) * Eli A. Bohnen (1967) *

Ben Zion Bokser Ben-Zion Bokser (July 4, 1907 – January 30, 1984) was a major Conservative rabbi in the United States. Biography Bokser was born in Liuboml, then a part of Poland, and emigrated to the United States at the age of 13 in 1920. He attended City ...

(1948, 1951, 1960) * Alexander Burnstein (1945-1951) * Gershon Chertoff (1951-1952) * Seymour J. Cohen (1951) *

Alan Cooper Alan Cooper (born June 3, 1952) is an American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the "Father of Visual Basic", Cooper is also known for his books ''About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design'' and ''The Inmates Are R ...

* David G. Dalin (historian) * Samuel Dresner (1967) * Jessica Feingold (1967) * Myron Fenster (1967) *

Theodore Friedman Theodore Tuvia Zvi Friedman (January 11, 1908 – December 18, 1992) was an American and Israeli conservative rabbi, spiritual leader, and author. From 1962 to 1964, he served as the president of Rabbinical Assembly, The Rabbinical Assembly, the ...

(1948) * Neil Gillman (theologian) * Judah Goldin (1951) *

Robert Gordis Robert Gordis (February 6, 1908 – January 3, 1992) was an American leading conservative rabbi. He founded the first Conservative Jewish day school, served as President of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Synagogue Council of America, and was ...

(biblical scholar) (1948) * Philip Graubart (1951) *

Simon Greenberg Simon Greenberg, (1901 – July 26, 1993) was a Russian born American Conservative rabbi and scholar. Greenberg was part of the senior management of many Jewish organizations in America. He helped to found a number of institutions, including the ...

(former vice-chancellor of the

) (1948) *

Judith Hauptman Judith Rebecca Hauptman (born 1943) is an American feminist Talmudic scholar. Biography She grew up in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, United States. Hauptman received a degree in Talmud from the Seminary College of Jewish S ...

(Talmudist) *

Arthur Hertzberg Arthur Hertzberg (June 9, 1921 – April 17, 2006) was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist. Biography Avraham Hertzberg was born in Lubaczów, Poland, the eldest of five children, and left Europe in 1926 with ...

(1948-1951) *

Max Kadushin Max Kadushin ( be, Макс Кадушын; December 6, 1895 – July 23, 1980) was a Conservative Judaism, Conservative rabbi best known for his organic philosophy of rabbinics. Biography Born in Minsk, Max Kadushin grew up in Seattle; his father ...

(scholar of

rabbinics Rabbinic Judaism ( he, יהדות רבנית, Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Judaism espoused by the Rabbanites, has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian ...

) (1948) * Abraham Karp (1960) *

Wolfe Kelman __NOTOC__ Wolfe Kelman (November 27, 1923 – June 26, 1990) was an Austrian-born American rabbi and leader in the Conservative Judaism in the United States who never led a congregation, serving for decades as a mentor to hundreds of rabbis in hi ...

(1967) * Leon Liebreich (1951) * Philip Kieval (1951) * Alfred Kolatch (1951) *

Myer S. Kripke Myer Samuel Kripke (January 21, 1914 – April 11, 2014) was an American rabbi, scholar, and philanthropist. He was based in Omaha, Nebraska. Early life Kripke was born on January 21, 1914 in Toledo, Ohio, to parents Jacob "J. Michael" Kripke ...

(1948) * Morris B. Margolies (1951) * A. Elihu Michelson (1952) *

Herbert Parzen Herbert may refer to: People Individuals * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert Name * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herbert, ...

(1951-1952) * Jack Riemer (1967) * Henry Moses Rosenthal (1948) *

Jack Wertheimer Jack Wertheimer is a Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the flagship yeshiva of Conservative Judaism. He is the former Provost of JTS, and was the founding director of the Joseph and Miriam Ratner ...

(historian) * Edward T. Sandrow (1948) * Joseph Sarachek (1951) * Howard Singer (1951) *

Ira F. Stone Rabbi Ira F. Stone (born 1949) is a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement. Career Stone was ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1979, and proceeded to serv ...

( Musar scholar) *

Seymour Siegel Seymour Siegel (September 12, 1927 - February 24, 1988), often referred to as "an architect of Conservative Jewish theology," was an American Conservative rabbi, a Professor of Ethics and Theology at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (J ...

(1967) *

Ralph Simon Ralph Simon, FRSA, is a business executive, first in the music industry, and now in the mobile entertainment industry. Early life He was raised in Johannesburg, South Africa where he went to the University of the Witwatersrand, and left South Afri ...

(1951) * David Silverman (1967) * Max Weine (1951-1952) *Joseph Wise (1951)

Editorial Council

* Max Arzt (1945-1948) * Herman Abramowitz (1945) * Mortimer J. Cohen (1945-1948) *

Solomon Goldman Solomon Goldman (August 18, 1893 - March 14, 1953) was an American Conservative rabbi. A noted orator, community leader and scholar, he was especially known for helping to popularize the cause of Zionism in the United States. Early life and ed ...

(1945-1948) *

Israel Goldstein Israel Goldstein (June 18, 1896 – April 11, 1986) was an American-born Israeli rabbi, author and Zionist leader. He was one of the leading founders of Brandeis University.Jewish Telegraphic Agency, ''Dr. Israel Goldstein Dead at 89'', Jerusal ...

(1945-1948) *

Solomon Grayzel Solomon Grayzel (1896–1980) was an American historian who authored '' A History of the Jews'' and testified as an expert witness in ''Abington School District v. Schempp'', the case that declared school-sponsored Bible reading in American publi ...

(1945-1948) *

Israel H. Levinthal Israel Herbert Levinthal (February 12, 1888 – October 31, 1982) was a Lithuanian-born American rabbi from Brooklyn. Life Levinthal was born on February 12, 1888 in Vilna, Russia, the son of Rabbi Bernard L. Levinthal and Minna Kleinberg. He im ...

(1945-1948) * Louis M. Levitsky (1945-1948)

External links

Archive of Articles from ''Conservative Judaism'', 1945-2014

References

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