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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Conservative Judaism: Past and Future | |
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| The Conservative Achievement | |
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| Confronting Difficult Issues | |
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| Methodology of This Study | |
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| Looking Toward the Future | |
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| The State of the Movement | |
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| A History of Ambivalence | |
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| A Reluctant Separation | |
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| The Movement As a Party | |
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| From Party to Camp? | |
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| Institutions | |
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| The Changing Position of the Seminary | |
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| The Congregational Heart of the Movement | |
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| The Variety of Congregational Models | |
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| A Note on Youth Movements | |
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| New Institutions Emerge | |
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| The Ramah Camps | |
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| The Havurot | |
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| The Solomon Schechter Schools | |
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| Ideology and Theology | |
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| God, Torah, and Israel | |
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| Shifts and Stages | |
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| Benchmarks and Boundaries | |
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| Style | |
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| Sephardim and Litvaks | |
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| Elite and Mass | |
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| Rabbinical Preeminence | |
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| Synagogism | |
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| Religious Observance | |
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| Demographics | |
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| Concentric Circles of Jewishness | |
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| Decline in the Fourth Generation | |
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| Orthodoxy Resurgent | |
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| The Changing Family | |
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| A Note on Regionalism in the Conservative Movement | |
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| Leadership | |
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| In the Movement | |
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| In the Congregations | |
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| In the Jewish World | |
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| Voluntary Leadership in the Existing Institutional Framework | |
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| The World Movement | |
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| The New Context of World Jewry | |
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| The Scope of the World Conservative/Masorti Movement | |
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| The Movement in Israel | |
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| A Missed Direction | |
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| A New Partnership | |
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| What the Movement's Leadership Seeks | |
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| Raising the Halakhic Profile | |
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| Enhancing Conservative Intellectual Life | |
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| Addressing the Spiritual Needs of Conservative Jews | |
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| The Communal Approach | |
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| The Zionist Approach | |
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| Resolving Conflicts, Setting Priorities | |
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| Next Steps | |
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| Ideology, Halakhah, and a Broadened Base | |
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| The Need for Ideological Clarification | |
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| Fostering a More Serious Halakhic Movement | |
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| Broadening the Base | |
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| Confronting the Demographic Challenge | |
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| Building a Real World Movement | |
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| Building a Masorti Movement in Israel | |
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| Is Conservative Judaism Best Served through a Single Movement or a Multi-Movement Community? | |
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| Links to the Jewish People | |
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| Internal Unity | |
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| From Congregationalism to Community | |
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| Reducing the Gap between the Circles | |
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| Integrating the Movement's Parts into a Whole | |
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| Broadening the Leadership | |
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| The Role of the Jewish Theological Seminary | |
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| Strengthening Rabbinic Leadership | |
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| Learning from History: A Summary and Final Word | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |