Conservative Judaism

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Kept in Hebrew and at full length, with the petitions for the restoration of the sacrifices recast so that they recall the offerings rather than ask for their return.

Conservative Judaism maintains its own courts applying halakhah through its own law committee, and their conversions and divorces are not recognised by the Orthodox rabbinate.

Conservative practice counts adults of either sex, a change made by its law committee and adopted congregation by congregation rather than imposed.

The Mishneh Torah is consulted as an authoritative reference, read through this stream's own halakhic process rather than treated as final.

The Shulchan Aruch is consulted as an authoritative reference, read through this stream's own halakhic process rather than treated as final.

Conservative Judaism holds the wall while contesting the Orthodox monopoly over its prayer arrangements, and prays at the southern section by Robinson's arch where mixed prayer is permitted.

The covenant is held as binding and as historically developing, which is the ground on which this stream both keeps halakha and revises it.

Head covering is expected at prayer and at study, and is worn by women as well as men in most Conservative congregations.

Kept as the marker of which service is being prayed, and taught to cantors as a discipline in its own right.

The Conservative movement has ordained women since 1985, having debated the question at its seminary for more than a decade first.

The prayer shawl is worn at the morning service and the movement decided that women are obligated in it on the same terms as men.

Retained as an obligation, and the movement ruled that women who take it on are obligated in it on the same terms as men.

The scroll is read on the traditional cycle, and the movement permits a woman to be called up to it and to read from it.

The Conservative movement began in reaction to this platform. Its founders held that the platform had cut the tradition loose from the practice of the Jewish people, and the Jewish Theological Seminary was established the following year in answer to it.

The Amidah is said in full, in Hebrew.

This body admitted women to the Torah reading and to the rabbinate, and its Bat Mitzvah is identical in form to its Bar Mitzvah.

Brit Milah is performed on the eighth day.

Burial is in the earth.

Conservative synagogues retain the professional cantorate, with cantorial ordination open to women since the 1980s.

Israel's covenantal election is affirmed, read within this stream's broader commitment to holding tradition and modern scholarship together.

The canopy is used.

Conservative Judaism holds brit milah binding and keeps the eighth day, while its rabbinate has developed parallel covenant ceremonies for daughters and certifies mohalim through its own training programme.

The judge of a rabbinical court sits under the law of the Shulchan Aruch's Choshen Mishpat, which governs the constitution of a beit din, the competence required of those who sit on it and the procedure it follows.

Conservative synagogues retain the gabbai role for assigning Torah honours, open to women where the congregation has adopted egalitarian practice.

Acts of loving kindness are held as a standing obligation and are a principal expression of this stream's communal life.

Conversion requires circumcision, immersion and a rabbinic court, as in the halakhic bodies, and is nonetheless not recognised by them.

Halakha is held binding and to be observed, understood as having always developed through history and open to considered change through this stream's own rabbinical law committee.

Conservative Judaism holds Jewish law binding while teaching that it has always developed, so its rabbinical assembly may issue rulings, on driving to synagogue or on the ordination of women, that alter received practice.

Kabbalat Shabbat is kept.

Conservative Judaism holds kashrut binding while permitting its rabbinate to rule on new questions, and it has issued decisions on such matters as domestic wine, cheeses and the treatment of animals that Orthodox authorities do not accept.

Marriage follows the traditional form, with a clause added to the marriage contract to protect a wife whose husband refuses a divorce.

The Masoretic Text is held as the authoritative Hebrew text of the Tanakh.

A messianic hope is retained in the traditional liturgy, generally without Orthodoxy's insistence on a literal, imminent personal Messiah.

Midrashic literature is held as authoritative rabbinic interpretation of scripture.

Immersion is required for conversion.

The Mishnah is held as authoritative rabbinic tradition, foundational to this stream's own halakhic process.

The Mishneh Torah is consulted as an authoritative reference, read through this stream's own halakhic process rather than treated as final.

The commandments are held as binding, with the authority to adjust their application vested in this stream's own committee on law and standards.

Circumcision and the fitness of the one who performs it are governed by the Shulchan Aruch's Yoreh De'ah, which fixes the rite, its timing and the conditions under which it may be deferred.

Conservative Judaism retains the mohel for brit milah, with certification available to women through Conservative-affiliated training programs.

The Mourner's Kaddish is said, with a quorum in which women count.

Musaf is retained, with the petition for the sacrifices recast in the past tense so that it recalls the offerings rather than asking for their return. That single grammatical change is the movement's theological position in miniature.

Conservative Judaism keeps the Sabbath as a day of rest and prayer while permitting some activities Orthodox law forbids, notably travel to synagogue where distance would otherwise prevent attendance.

Conservative Judaism holds Sabbath observance binding while its law committee has permitted driving to synagogue where no congregation is within walking distance, and the use of electricity, rulings the Orthodox reject.

God is addressed as almighty in the liturgy this stream retains, though its theologians have written at length on what the word can mean after the twentieth century.

The Oral Torah is held as authoritative and binding, understood as a living tradition that continues to develop.

The Seder is conducted from the Haggadah.

Conservative Judaism relocates the posek's function to the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, a collective body that can adopt more than one valid teshuvah on the same question, documented in its 2006 responsum on homosexuality and Jewish law.

Prayer follows the traditional Hebrew liturgy with abbreviations, and men and women count equally in the quorum in most congregations of this body.

Prophecy is held as real, and this stream reads the prophetic books critically as historical documents without treating that reading as a denial.

Conservative Judaism has ordained women as rabbis since 1985, when the Jewish Theological Seminary ordained Amy Eilberg after reversing its prior policy.

Redemption is held, with the emphasis falling on a process worked out in history rather than a single interrupting event.

Bodily resurrection language is retained in the traditional liturgy, unlike classical Reform's removal of it.

The Omer is counted.

The Sabbath is observed halakhically, with the movement's own rulings on its boundaries.

Shacharit is prayed from the traditional text.

The Shema is said in Hebrew, morning and evening.

The slaughterer's qualification and practice are governed in detail by the Shulchan Aruch's Yoreh De'ah, which sets both the law of shechitah and the requirement that a shochet be examined and licensed before he may act for a community.

The Shulchan Aruch is consulted as an authoritative reference, read through this stream's own halakhic process rather than treated as final.

The scribe's work is governed by the Shulchan Aruch's Yoreh De'ah, which sets the law for the writing of Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot, down to the forming of the letters and the intention required while writing the divine name.

Conservative congregations use Torah scrolls written by a qualified sofer to the halakhic standard.

The Talmud is held as authoritative, applied and developed through this stream's own rabbinical law committee.

The Tanakh is held as scripture, read together with modern historical and critical scholarship.

Repentance is held and the days of awe are kept in their traditional shape, with the liturgy largely retained.

Conservative Judaism understands the covenant as a lasting bond that carries real obligation, and it is this that grounds its insistence on observance against the more voluntary approach of Reform.

Repair of the world is held in both senses, the liturgical phrase and the modern call to social responsibility, without either displacing the other.

The Torah is held as divinely revealed, its transmission and text read through modern critical scholarship.

Divine revelation is affirmed while the Torah's transmission and text are read through modern historical and critical scholarship, distinguishing this stream from Orthodoxy's literal Sinai dictation.

The Yahrzeit is kept.

Yizkor is said on Yom Kippur and the festivals.

Halakha as binding but historically developing, so that scholarly conclusions may change the law.

The Conservative movement abolished the requirement of chalitzah in the twentieth century.