Eisen, who has served 12 years, will preside over the opening ceremony of the new campus in the spring — a project that he led.
The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York has come out against Israel’s proposed nation-state bill, which would enshrine into law Israel’s status as Jewish state.
An overwhelming majority of religious and lay leaders in the Conservative synagogue movement back gay rabbinical ordination and same-sex marriage, according to the results of a newly released survey. At the same time, support is high for the movement’s prohibition against intermarriage and its refusal to recognize patrilineal descent.