«Along with the decay of the liberal forms of Judaism, came the realisation that without halacha Judaism simply can not survive. And so there emerged a modern positive-historical movement. A movement which claims fealty to halacha, but in reality uses halacha to its own ends. If halacha can provide a structure and a community with values it can identify with, then by all means, its followers will loudly proclaim their adherence to halacha. But if halacha posits values or positions that are out of sync with modern sensibilities, then halacha simply must give way. This is exactly the original stance of the founders of the conservative movement, and whilst conservative Judaism can no longer claim to be halachic, the new positive-historical movement makes precisely that claim, viz. that they are both halachic and also in tune with modern, enlightened moral theory.
The leaders of this modern conservative movement [Aka Neo-Cons] are people like Eliezer Berkowitz, Emanuel Rackman, Avi Weiss, Blu Greenberg who first coined the phrase "where there is a halachic will there is a halachic way", and others. In recent years this movement has finally made it clear that it no longer views halacha as binding. This they have done not by dismissing halacha as irrelevant, but rather by redefining what halacha means, distorting its words and twisting its values so that it fits with what makes them comfortable.»
The Conservative Movement Revivified
http://www.mohoshiv.com/the-conservative-movement-revivified/
Best Regards,
RRW
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