Conservative Movement Metaphor

[debka_notion]

I was talking with shirei_shibolim at breakfast this morning, and in discussing the Conservative movement and the "big umbrella" description of said movement, I likened it more to an eiruv- a bunch of different buildings held together by a legal fiction, and was told that the description was worth writing down. So there it is, if anyone finds it interesting, or for when I someday want to retrieve it.

Comments

[jonahrank.livejournal.com]

'Tis interesting. I still believe though that there simply is no Movement per se. There's just a lot of Jews who go to shuls that aren't Reform, Orthodox, or affiliated with any smaller Movement (Renewal, Reconstructionist, ITJ, Neolog, etc.); I feel that such Jews are part of a coalition of "Conservative Jews".

[hotshot2000.livejournal.com]

Nice. I'm trying to figure out how people who don't believe in eruvin and people who don't hold by them would fit that metaphor.

[thevortex.livejournal.com]

*thumbs up* on the metaphor.

The Vortex