Conservative Judaism

• Centre of the Jewish religious spectrum
• Conservative Judaism- Founded by Zachirias Frankel
• Conservative Judaism broke from progressive Judaism at the Petersburg Conference in 1885
• • Sympathetic to modern western ways while maintaining traditional Jewish law
• Prayers in English
• Most of the services are in Hebrew
• Use of the organ during synagouge service
• Keeps the authority of the oral law (Mishnah) but reserves the right to reinterpret it
• • Focuses on the promised land and continuation of Jewish traditions E.g; Kosher, importance of the Torah