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

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

Be very careful about using a phrase such as "lumbering giant with cancer". For all the faults that the Movement has, it's still a giant. It has far more affiliates than your own "post-denominational" Judaism, and certainly far more than my own "Relativist Orthodoxy". For now, at any rate, it's a fact on the ground. They must be doing something right to get all those members....

(And yes, I know that their numbers are shrinking. But they're still huge.)

[hotshot2000.livejournal.com]

It's like a vector -- direction sometimes counts for more than magnitude. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and all that.