Conservative T'shuvot on the Web

In response to my last post, Jamie mentioned renewed interest on the part of many of our members in Rabbinic Responsa, known in Hebrew as T’shuvot. Many of the T’shuvot of the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards can be found on their website. You can access it by clicking here: www.rabbinicalassembly.org/law/teshuvot_public.html

As you can see from a sampling of the papers, many, if not most, would not have passed if an 80% majority was needed. On one hand, that would have made Conservative Judaism more uniform, but on the other hand, it would have drastically slowed our ability to relate as Conservative Jews to the changing world around us. Reading through the T’shuvot gives a sampling of the broad spectrum of practice in Conservative synagogues today.