| When I was growing up in the Detroit area there were at least ten Conservative synagogues, each with their own rabbis and memberships. As the naighborhoods "changed" the Conservative synagogues started merging for all sorts of reasons, sharing their rabbis, as it were, without gaining any members, and, in time losing membership as people started spreading out. To date, Except for three synagogues who are still "intact", the rest are alamagamations of former congregatons with their own infrastructures. Strangely enough, there are more Orthodox synagogues, Modern and otherwise, and even more Reform synagogues, too. Parve is not a flavor, its an excuse to offer something when you have nothing to offer. |
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