a movement reacting against the radicalism of Reform Judaism, rejecting extreme change and advocating moderate relaxations of traditional Jewish law, by an extension of the process by which its adherents claim traditional Orthodox Judaism evolved
Compare Orthodox Judaism, Reform Judaism
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Conserv′ative Ju′daism,
- JudaismJudaism as observed by Conservative Jews.
- 1945–50
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