Do Conservative Jews accept all Reform conversions?
Interestingly enough they do not; and it is quite difficult to understand how Conservative leaders can ask Knesset to validate Reform conversion, when they themselves do not accept all Reform converts as Jews. Conservative leaders in Israel were also critical of the recent marriage of two women performed by a Reform rabbi in Eretz Yisrael. Nor does the Conservative movement accept patrilineal descent. I am certain that no matter how pluralistic the Reform leaders may be, certainly they would not consider Messianic Jews as part of the Jewish people. In short, an approach in which one considers oneself Jewish with a self-defined baseline, while “pluralistic,” leads to the destruction of the Jewish nation. Don’t Reform and Conservative Jews represent a large percentage of Israeli and world Jewry? Reform and Conservative Jews together represent a statistically insignificant percentage of Israeli Jewry. While most Israelis do not consider themselves Orthodox, they recognize the authenticity
