#conservative judaism

[gogogadgetgolem]

Question for conservative Jews. Would you personally consider me Jewish? I converted through the reform stream. However, my conversion required a beit din with 3 rabbis and a mikveh. If I owned a penis, I would have been required to undergo brit milah, or hatafat dam brit.

I’m more curious than anything.

[legless-rat]

Remembering that time I tried to join Jewish discord servers and they were all like « LGBT identities are open to debate! We Don’t guarantee tolerance! But we’re accepting of all Jewish people trust »

No the fuck you’re not the Torah doesn’t even say anything about that

[ferret-with-a-knife]

The struggle is real, they should have gone with Masorti instead

[gogogadgetgolem]

So I converted through the Reform movement but I’m starting to look a bit more towards Conservative Judaism. However, my conversion was after multiple years of study, classes (I moved in the middle of it and started over) I had a beit din and a mikveh as well. Though my beit din was made up of three Reform rabbis. So I’m not sure if the Conservative movement would see me as Jewish at all, or if I’d need to go through the conversion process again.

[mossadspypigeon]

[moran-with-a-g]

Idk I mostly gave up on Pesach this year. I didn't have time to clean, I forgot to lock a lot of my chametz away, I'm going to have to order food this weekend and honestly I can do my best to not eat chametz but it feels a bit pointless.

So this is the second year since I started keeping kosher that I didn't manage to keep Pesach properly. Maybe next year will be better.

[mortallysublimewhispers]

“When I was young, I admired clever people.Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”-Heschel

[moran-with-a-g]

How is it being a Conservative/Mesorati Jew in Israel? I'm an American Conservative Jew who's been thinking about making Aliyah in the next few years.

That's a great question! Which I sadly can't really answer as I'm a very bad example of a conservative Jew!

Lmao sorry, but fr - I'm very new to observing beliefs. I went to a conservative shul for a bit and it was really nice, a very warm and welcoming and queer friendly community, mostly made of olim or children of olim, but I couldn't find the time to keep going and I still struggle with participating in the prayers due to bad past experiences.

I can try telling a bit of what I know anyways:

If you say Mesorati in Israel, the assumption won't be that you're conservative, it'll be that you're an orthodox Mesorati. In Israel, Mesorati refers to your lifestyle and not the way you understand and follow religious law. A Mesorati would "pick and choose" what to follow, kinda? A lot will keep kosher to some degree, keep Shabbat to some degree, it's a lifestyle between being secular and religious(dati/frum). A lot of them follow the traditions as cultural practice and not a religious practice.

For me, I'm both. Both conservative and Mesorati, and both out of tradition and religion. But I BARELY know about the conservative movement outside of "the shul doesn't separate rooma between genders" and that there's more equality between practices women and men do. So I really can't be an authority on explaining how good the conservative movement in Israel is and how similar it is to the same movement in other countries. They have a website tho. The link is specifically to the page of there their shuls are located but they have more information on their website.

When it comes to the Mesorati lifestyle, about 30% of the adult Jewish population in Israel identify as Mesorati. It's very common especially for Mizrahi people to be Mesorati.

When it comes to other people, there's no judgement around being Mesorati, and I think you'll encounter more confusion about what being conservative even is than anything else, because that movement is not that well known here.

So at the end if shul is important to you, you should probably plan where to live around where there are conservative communities, and if you're coming here to visit before your move I highly recommend coming to the shuls beforehand to get to know the community more. All the people I met were extremely nice and welcoming, very lovely people who really cared about their community. I wish I could let myself feel more comfortable in shul and I wish I even had time to go.