In 1946, he took a position at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS ), the main seminary of Conservative Judaism, where he served as professor of Jewish ethics and Mysticism until his death in 1972.

Conservative Judaism ( also known as Masorti Judaism outside of the United States and Canada ) is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s.

Conservative Judaism has its roots in the school of thought known as Positive-Historical Judaism, developed in 1850s Germany as a reaction to the more liberal religious positions taken by Reform Judaism.

Because of this potential for confusion, a number of Conservative Rabbis have proposed renaming the movement, and outside of the United States and Canada, in many countries including Israel and the UK, it is today known as Masorti Judaism ( Hebrew for " Traditional ").

In the United States and Canada, the term Conservative, as applied, does not always indicate that a congregation is affliliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the movement's central institution and the one to which the term, without qualifier, usually refers.

The moniker Conservadox is sometimes employed to refer to the right wing of the Conservative spectrum, although " Traditional " is used as well ( as in the Union for Traditional Judaism ).

* The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism ( USCJ ) in the United States and Canada,

Like Reform Judaism, the Conservative movement developed in Europe and the United States in the 19th century, as Jews reacted to the changes brought about by the Enlightenment and Jewish emancipation, a confluence of events that lead to Haskalah, or the Jewish Enlightenment.

Positive-Historical Judaism, the intellectual forerunner to Conservative Judaism, was developed as a school of thought in the 1840s and 1850s in Germany.

The fortunes of Conservative Judaism underwent a dramatic turnaround when in 1902, the famed scholar Solomon Schechter, lecturer in Talmud at the University of Cambridge, accepted the invitation to become president of JTS.

In 1913, the Conservative Movement founded its congregational arm, the United Synagogue of America, which would later become the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

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

After World War II, Conservative Judaism continued to thrive.

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

By the 1990s Conservative Judaism continued to flourish, yet dichotomies of practice and belief, which had been present for years, began to formulate.

Working with this 1990s trend of diversity and institutional growth, Conservative Judaism remained the largest denomination in America, with 43 percent of Jewish households affiliated with a synagogue belonging to Conservative synagogues ( compared to 35 percent for Reform and 16 percent for Orthodox ).

For the first time in nearly a century, Conservative Judaism is no longer the largest denomination in America.

Denominations that oppose homosexuality include the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox churches and some mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Methodist churches, Reformed Church in America the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Southern Baptist Convention.

They have been accepted as religious holidays by the following groups: The Union of Orthodox Congregations and the Rabbinical Council of America ; The United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth ; Reform Judaism ; Conservative Judaism ; Reconstructionist Judaism ; the Union for Traditional Judaism.

It is used more than ever by some Conservative thinkers and journalists, who use it to discuss the Islamic threat to America, the dangers of multiculturalism, and moral decay in a materialist, secular age.

He was an important halakhic authority of the Conservative movement in North America ; for a period of ten years ( 1917 – 1927 ), he was virtually The halakhic authority of this movement.

Its goals include pressing for religious pluralism, working for an equitable distribution of funding from the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Conservative Zionist programs in Israel and America, promoting civil rights in Israel for all people, encouraging electoral reform in Israel, and opposing any change in " Who Is a Jew?

Masorti Olami ( also known as The World Council of Conservative / Masorti Synagogues ) builds, renews and strengthens Jewish life throughout the world, with efforts that focus on existing and developing communities in Europe, Latin America, the Former Soviet Union, Africa, Asia and Australia.

All of its activities are conducted within the context of the overall Conservative / Masorti movement, in close cooperation with its affiliated organizations in North America and Israel.

In cooperation with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the RA also publishes a scholarly quarterly journal, Conservative Judaism, which is edited by Martin Samuel Cohen.

He founded the first Conservative Jewish day school, served as President of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Synagogue Council of America, and was a professor at Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1940 to 1992.

Solomon Schechter ( Hebrew: שניאור זלמן שכטר ; December 7, 1847 – November, 19 1915 ) was a Moldavian-born Romanian rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement.

These denominations include the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox church, the Methodist Church, and many other mainline denominations, such as the Reformed Church in America and the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, and fundamentalist groups and churches, such as the Southern Baptist Convention.

* 1912-25-Nicaragua ; America controls Nicaraguan affairs through puppet Conservative Party presidents under the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty.

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, who developed Reconstructionist Judaism and taught at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America, also rejected the idea of a personal God, Kaplan instead thought of God " as a force, like gravity, built into the very structure of the universe ," believing that " since the universe is constructed to enable us to gain personal happiness and communal solidarity when we act morally, it follows that there is a moral force in the universe ; this force is what the Constructionists mean by God ," although some Reconstructionists do believe in a personal God.

* Gurock, Jeffrey S. " From Fluidity to Rigidity: The Religious Worlds of Conservative and Orthodox Jews in Twentieth Century America ," David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs, University of Michigan, 2000.

The Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS or JTSA ) is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism, and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies.

* A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought ( 1991 )

His period in office was marked by many arguments with a wide variety of people, mainly within the Jewish community ; the Dictionary of National Biography describes him as a " combative Conservative ".

On 2 January 1952, the 39-year-old Powell married 26-year-old Margaret Pamela Wilson, a former colleague from the Conservative Central Office, who provided him with the settled and happy family life that was essential to his political career.

Candidates were Stephen Twigg ( Labour ), Paul Twigger ( Liberal Democrat ), Steve Radford ( Liberal ) and Pamela Hall ( Conservative ).

Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples ( born 11 February 1923 ) is a British Conservative Party politician.

According to Pamela Nadell, " the quarterly was designed for the elite -- Conservative leaders and readers learned in Judaica ," and it " remained influential chiefly among the leadership of the Conservative movement.

The Masorti Movement is the name given to Conservative Judaism in Israel and other countries outside Canada and U. S. Masorti means " traditional " in Hebrew.

The Masorti movement is sometimes somewhat more traditional than the U. S. Conservative movement and has not accepted a number of the U. S. movement's leniencies.

Mathilde Roth Schechter ( 1857 – 1924 ) was the American founder of the U. S. National Women's League of Conservative Judaism in 1918.

Following the evacuation of U. S. Marines in 1925, another violent conflict between liberals and conservatives known as the Constitutionalist War took place in 1926, when Liberal soldiers in the Caribbean port of Puerto Cabezas revolted against Conservative President Adolfo Díaz, recently installed as a result of United States pressure following a coup.

From 1927 until 1933, General Augusto César Sandino who rejected the negotiated agreement led a sustained guerrilla war, first against the Conservative regime and subsequently against the U. S. Marines, who withdrew upon the establishment of a new Liberal government.

During the war there were at least three attempts by Panamanian Liberals to seize control of Panama and potentially achieve full autonomy, including one led by Liberal guerrillas like Belisario Porras and Victoriano Lorenzo, each of whom was suppressed by a collaboration of Conservative Colombian and U. S. forces under the Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty.

Conservative Democratic Party legislators took over all of the Southern state governments as all remaining U. S. troops were pulled out of the South by President Rutherford B. Hayes under the Compromise of 1877.

The U. S. Taxpayers Party, now known as the Constitution Party, nominated former aide to President Ronald Reagan and Chairman of The Conservative Caucus Howard Phillips for President.

Russell Kirk discussed Santayana in his The Conservative Mind from Edmund Burke to T. S. Eliot.

The 1994 election also marked the end of the Conservative Coalition, a bipartisan coalition of conservative Republicans and Democrats ( often referred to as " boll weevil Democrats " for their association with the U. S. South ), which had often managed to control Congressional outcomes since the New Deal era.

In 1976, Moynihan was elected to the U. S. Senate from the State of New York, defeating U. S. Representative Bella Abzug, Ramsey Clark, Paul O ' Dwyer and Abraham Hirschfeld in the Democratic primary, and Conservative Party incumbent James L. Buckley in the general election.

These include, but are not limited to: The Bear and Ragged Staff ( a Wetherspoon pub ), The White Horse, The Miners Arms, The Mountpleasent, The Black Horse, The Lord Raglan, The Black Bank, Saunders Hall, Collycroft Working Men's Club, The Bedworth Liberal Club, Bedworth Conservative Club, The Griffin Inn, The Newdigate Arms, The Cross Keys, The Collycroft Goose, The Royal Oak, The Prince Of Wales, JB ' S, Littleworks ( Re-Opened as Jack's Entertainment Club ) and The Cricketers Arms in Collycroft.

Principles and Heresies: Frank S. Meyer and the Shaping of the American Conservative Movement ( 2002 ) ( ISBN 1-882926-72-2 )

The FEC engages in litigation over challenges to federal election laws and regulations, as in Federal Election Commission v. National Conservative Political Action Committee, 470 U. S. 480, and other cases.

Modern congregationalism in the U. S. is split into three bodies: the United Church of Christ, with which most local Congregational churches affiliate ; the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches ; and the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, an evangelical group.

The U. S. started giving aid to his Conservative and Liberal opponents in Nicaragua who broke out in open rebellion in October 1909, led by Liberal General Juan J. Estrada.

Thereafter the U. S. called for a constituent assembly to write a constitution for Nicaragua and the vacant presidency was filled by a series of Conservative politicians including Adolfo Diaz.

The deal promised a review of the Canada-U. S. Free Trade Agreement, no joint candidates with the Canadian Alliance, and a promise to redouble efforts to rebuild the national status of the Progressive Conservative Party.

From 1936 to 1938, he was leader of Conservative Party of Ontario though, as he did not have a seat in the legislature George S. Henry remained Leader of the Opposition.

Political rhetoric made it a party issue: the Conservative party, which stood publicly for nationalism and protectionism (" the National Policy "), succeeded in associating the Liberals with free trade, commercial union with the U. S., and continentalism, which smacked of absorption by the U. S. In 1911 the Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier succeeded in signing a reciprocity treaty with American president William Howard Taft.