For all the theological, ritualistic and institutional differences separating the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform movements, for all their divergent approaches to revelation, halacha and communal decision- making, what distinguishes the groups in the minds of many ordinary American Jews comes down to branding.

Orthodoxy is on the Right, Reform on the Left. In the middle stands Conservative Judaism. If the new crop of Conservative rabbis has anything to say about it, Conservatism may not occupy the center for very long. That, at least, is the message of a recent report by the movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary, based on a survey of political views among “Generation Y” rabbinical students – born in the mid-1970s to mid-1990s – and the seminary’s somewhat older rabbinical alumni, ordained since 1980.

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