Word: schorsch
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...everyone is pleased. Ismar Schorsch, a key leader of America's large Conservative movement, says he can accept some Jews "slipping out of the community and coming back when their existential needs require them." But he rejects patrilinearity, and Conservative thinkers have suggested a communal triage that would concentrate on a congregation's observant "core" rather than chasing those on the "periphery." Meanwhile, Rabbi David Hollander, a leader of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, a vocal minority group within the Orthodox movement (the smallest and most traditional American branch), fumes: "In a generation or two, we won't know...