Word: judiasm
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...Conservatism is Judiasm?s third-largest branch, with some 1,600 rabbis worldwide. It is poised theologically between the liberalism of Reform Judaism and the (small-c) conservatism of Orthodoxy. On the upside, today?s decision reaffirmed Conservatism?s de facto position as America?s Jewish center, minding Jewish law but sensitive to shifts (in this case, toward greater tolerance) in the national social mainstream. On the downside, it also suggested once again that the center may not hold, and Conservatism itself may be increasingly split down the middle. As soon as the votes were taken, three members...
...native of Potomac, Md., Paretzky grew up attending the small Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School—her father is Jewish and her mother, who is black, converted to Judiasm before she was born...
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