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Conservative Judaism enjoyed rapid growth in the first half of the 20th century, becoming the largest American Jewish denomination.

Its combination of modern innovation ( such as mixed gender seating ) and traditional practice particularly appealed to first and second-generation Eastern European Jewish immigrants, who found Orthodoxy too restrictive, but Reform Judaism foreign.

After World War II, Conservative Judaism continued to thrive.

The 1950s and early 1960s featured a boom in synagogue construction as upwardly mobile American Jews moved to the suburbs.

Conservative Judaism occupied an enviable middle position during a period where American society prized consensus.