Building Bridges: the Denominations, Federations and Jewish Continuity

Publication Date: January 1994

Publisher: Jewish Education Service of North America

Author(s): Sherry Israel

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Pluralism; Religious denominations; Jewish text

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The Reform and Conservative movements have joined the Jewish continuity conversation on the national level with the publication of two documents: "Jewish Education in the Conservative Movement: Leadership in the Continuity Process," issued in May 1993, and the UAHC Strategic Planning Task Force on Jewish Continuity and Growth's "Final Report," dated June 7, 1993. What do the documents say? And what can we say, on reading them, about the movements' participation in the bridge-building process?