Conservative Judaism

Demonstration in Tel Aviv by members of the LGBT community, holding signs reading "equality," in protest of what is seen as discriminatory surrogacy legislation, July 22, 2018.

Analysis LGBT Protest May Herald a Turning Point in Israel's History

In a country that has no categorically declared right to equality, where elective officials betray their mission, the LGBT protest may prove that the struggle for that right is not lost

Israel Detains Conservative Rabbi for Performing non-Orthodox Weddings

Rabbinical Court files complaint against Rabbi Dov Haiyun ■ Police backtrack after reports ■ 'Police serve as tools for the ayatollahs in Israel,' rabbi says

MK Avraham Nagosa (Likud) in the Knesset.

Citing Racism, Israeli Lawmakers Slam Immigration Officials for Rejecting Ugandan Jews

'Do you have special criteria for black converts?' MK asks Interior Ministry at Knesset session on difficulties faced by Jewish converts wanting to move to Israel

Kibita Yosef, a member of the Ugandan Abayudaya community, whose request to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return was denied at the end of May.

Top Court Blocks Israel’s Move to Deport Ugandan Convert to Judaism

Interior Ministry given until end of July to explain why it won’t recognize the Abayudaya community from Uganda, even though the Jewish Agency has

Battle for Recognition of Ugandan Jews to Move to Israel's Top Court

Conservative movement, which converted almost all of Abayudaya community's members, to demand that a government decision denying recognition be overturned

A confrontation at the Western Wall between the ultra-Orthodox and a Conservative rabbi in 2016.

‘Like Second-class Jews’ U.S. Jews Say Israel Is Losing Their Support by Capitulating to ultra-Orthodox Demands

If ‘unprecedented’ divisions on conversions, marriage and Western Wall prayer continue, ‘you will have nobody’ left to defend Israel abroad, AJC leaders warn Knesset session

Reform and Conservative rabbis protest at the Western Wall, November, 2016.

High Court Gives Israel 3 Weeks to Announce Equal Pay Plan for non-Orthodox Rabbis

State told to publish criteria for paying salaries to Reform and Conservative rabbis in Israel, in line with their Orthodox counterparts

A prayer session at an Israeli synagogue.

Opinion The Orthodox Are No Longer Repairing the World

Rabbis outside the Reform and Conservative movements rarely deal with Jewish-values issues such as the asylum seekers and treatment of the Palestinians

The area allocated for the Reform movement to hold prayers at the Western Wall.

New Plan for Egalitarian Prayer Space at Western Wall to Be Unveiled Monday

The space has long been a topic of contention between Netanyahu's government and non-Orthodox religious movements in Israel and abroad