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Conservative / Masorti Judaism
The religious movement whose 'positive-historical' approach was pioneered by Zacharias Frankel (head of the Breslau Seminary from 1854) and institutionalized in America by Solomon Schechter (JTS, 1902) — it treats halacha as binding but historically evolving through a central legal committee.
The religious movement founded by Zacharias Frankel (Breslau, 1854) and institutionalized by Solomon Schechter (JTS, 1902). Treats halacha as binding but historically evolving through the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. Distinguishes from Orthodoxy in approach to halachic change (e.g., driving on Shabbat, ordaining women — 1985, accepting LGBT rabbis — 2006).
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