The Conservative movement is being “impoverished” by a dearth of spirituality, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch said. Conservative Judaism’s adherence to halachah, or religious law, lacks a spiritual world view giving halachic observance meaning, the outgoing chancellor of the movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary said May 18 in a graduation address in New York City.
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