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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 | |