There are many, many talented and caring, deeply Zionist and Jewishly learned women and men in the Conservative Movement. But the Movement, as a movement, is rudderless. The movement is spineless. The movement has no courage, no meaningful vision for which it is willing to take a stand. It gave up its halakhic seriousness decades ago. When it comes to Israel, the movement tolerates hatred and hostility it would never stand for when it comes to gays, lesbians, African Americans.
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