At a time when denominational walls seem to be growing ever higher, the new religious guidebook from the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly is meant for all “contemporary Jews,” not necessarily just Conservative ones.
As vast and ambitious as a Russian novel — and as long (935 pages) — “The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews,” an anthology presented by the Rabbinical Assembly, at times reads like a complicated love triangle involving Conservative rabbis, congregants and the halacha, the practice of Judaism. But who is observant and what is observance?
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