Article: A committee of Conservative Jewish rabbis and scholars has ruled that a minyan, or ten-member prayer group, cannot be constituted or held in cyberspace.(Committee on Jewish Law and Standards)(Brief Article)

* A committee of Conservative Jewish rabbis and scholars has ruled that a minyan, or ten-member prayer group, cannot be constituted or held in cyberspace. The Conservative branch's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards issued the opinion last March, but it was not publicized until the fall issue of the magazine of Jewish Theological Seminary. The committee of 25 rabbis and scholars issued the ruling to address whether Jews in remote communities, or homebound adults ...

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