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Article: A Conservative Cri de Coeur.(Conservative Judaism)
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- June 22, 2005
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No, this is the fast I desire:
To unlock fetters of wickedness ...
To break off every yoke.
It is to share your bread with the hungry,
And to take the wretched poor into your home;
When you see the naked, to clothe him,
And not to ignore your own kin.
Then shall your light burst through like the dawn
And your healing spring up quickly. (Isaiah 58.6-8)
Time passes, institutions change, and traditions are altered no matter how venerable and superior, and no matter how much one resists. The Conservative Movement is not unlike the French wine industry--still of excellent, if not even superior, quality, but now in stiff ...