The Case for Commandments
Identity/Crisis
The Importance of Congregational Affiliateship
It's not universally and empirically the case that conservative and reform synagogues and their Judaism's can't thrive in America. But it does sometimes feel as though those thriving congregations do so in spite of the baggage of their movement as opposed to fueled by it. I don't think denominational labels carry the weight that they once did, but there is a place for some of the bells and whistles of denominations. There's an expectation within my community that even if my congregants are not observing Shabbat or keeping kosher, it's not a question that that's a messaging from the pulpit of values that are championed.
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