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Conservative Judaism was a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1945 until 2014.

The journal was founded in 1945 under the editorship of Rabbi Leon S. Lang as a publication of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA). In 1968, the journal became a joint project of the RA and the Jewish Theological Seminary. According to Pamela Nadell, "the quarterly was designed for the elite--Conservative leaders and readers learned in Judaica," and it "remained influential chiefly among the leadership of the Conservative movement."

Its editors were:

  • Leon S. Lang, 1945–1952
  • Samuel Dresner, 1955–1964
  • Jack Riemer, 1964–1965
  • S. Gershon Levi, 1965–1969
  • Mordecai Waxman, 1969–1974
  • Stephen C. Lerner, 1974–1977
  • Myron Fenster, 1977–1979
  • Arthur A. Chiel, 1979–1980
  • Harold S. Kushner, 1980–1984
  • David Wolf Silverman, 1984–1989
  • Shamai Kanter, 1989–1993
  • Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, 1993–2000
  • Martin Samuel Cohen, 2000-2014
  • Benjamin Kramer, 2014

    • Members of the editorial board included:

  • Ben Zion Bokser
  • Max Kadushin (scholar of rabbinics)
  • Robert Gordis (biblical scholar)
  • Simon Greenberg (former vice-chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
  • Judith Hauptman (Talmudist)
  • Neil Gillman (theologian)
  • Alan Cooper (biblical scholar)
  • Jack Wertheimer (historian)
  • David G. Dalin (historian)
  • Ira F. Stone (Musar scholar)

    • References

    Conservative Judaism (journal) Wikipedia
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