While in rabbinical school at Hebrew Union College-LA, we often used texts by Rabbi Jacob Neusner when studying Mishnah ... Rabbi Neusner is a prolific scholar ordained by JTS, the conservative movement's rabbinical school.
He has now written an opinion piece for The Forward, one of the US' largest Jewish newspapers, where he "goes rogue" and supports the Reform Movement ... it is an interesting piece to read, all the more so because he is a conservative rabbi.
http://wwww.forward.com/articles/119646/
Make sure to read at least some of the comments following ... they are more evidence of how we Jews choose tear ourselves down, rather than respect different viewpoints within our own religion ... isn't it enough that non-Jews sometimes want to tear us down? Why do we feel the need to help them?
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