Conservative Judaism’s embattled congregational arm has laid off a handful of senior staffers amid its ongoing financial crisis, the Forward has learned. The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism handed out at least four pink slips, just a week after announcing it would sell its Manhattan headquarters. The USCJ confirmed the layoffs. “We recently had a…
Despite a budget deficit twice what was expected, the leader of the Conservative movement’s synagogue umbrella group says the group will balance its budget within two years. Rabbi Steven Wernick, the CEO of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism, told JTA that his organization was anticipating a budget hole of more than $1 million in…
I have always been a Jew — and after a cursory dunk, the Conservative movement agrees.
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