Conservative Judaism (journal)
# Conservative Judaism (journal)

Conservative Judaism was a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1945 until 2014.

## History

The journal was founded in 1945 under the editorship of Rabbi Leon S. Lang as a publication of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA). In 1968, the journal became a joint project of the RA and the Jewish Theological Seminary. 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."

## Leadership

### Editors

Its editors were:

* Leon S. Lang, 1945–1952
* Samuel Dresner, 1955–1964
* Jack Riemer, 1964–1965
* S. Gershon Levi, 1965–1969
* Mordecai Waxman, 1969–1974
* Stephen C. Lerner, 1974–1977
* Myron Fenster, 1977–1979
* Arthur A. Chiel, 1979–1980
* Harold S. Kushner, 1980–1984
* David Wolf Silverman, 1984–1989
* Shamai Kanter, 1989–1993
* Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, 1993–2000
* Martin Samuel Cohen, 2000-2014
* Benjamin Kramer, 2014

### Editorial board members

* Jerome Abrams (1967)
* Jacob Agus (1951-1952)
* David Aronson (1960)
* J. Leonard Azneer (1951)
* Ephraim Bennett (1951-1952)
* Sidney Bogner (1951)
* Eli A. Bohnen (1967)
* Ben Zion Bokser (1948, 1951, 1960)
* Alexander Burnstein (1945-1951)
* Gershon Chertoff (1951-1952)
* Seymour J. Cohen (1951)
* Alan Cooper
* David G. Dalin (historian)
* Samuel Dresner (1967)
* Jessica Feingold (1967)
* Myron Fenster (1967)
* Theodore Friedman (1948)
* Neil Gillman (theologian)
* Judah Goldin (1951)
* Robert Gordis (biblical scholar) (1948)
* Philip Graubart (1951)
* Simon Greenberg (former vice-chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America) (1948)
* Judith Hauptman (Talmudist)
* Arthur Hertzberg (1948-1951)
* Max Kadushin (scholar of rabbinics) (1948)
* Abraham Karp (1960)
* Wolfe Kelman (1967)
* Leon Liebreich (1951)
* Philip Kieval (1951)
* Alfred Kolatch (1951)
* Myer S. Kripke (1948)
* Morris B. Margolies (1951)
* A. Elihu Michelson (1952)
* Herbert Parzen (1951-1952)
* Jack Riemer (1967)
* Henry Moses Rosenthal (1948)
* Jack Wertheimer (historian)
* Edward T. Sandrow (1948)
* Joseph Sarachek (1951)
* Howard Singer (1951)
* Ira F. Stone (Musar scholar)
* Seymour Siegel (1967)
* Ralph Simon (1951)
* David Silverman (1967)
* Max Weine (1951-1952)
* Joseph Wise (1951)

### Editorial Council

* Max Arzt (1945-1948)
* Herman Abramowitz (1945)
* Mortimer J. Cohen (1945-1948)
* Solomon Goldman (1945-1948)
* Israel Goldstein (1945-1948)
* Solomon Grayzel (1945-1948)
* Israel H. Levinthal (1945-1948)
* Louis M. Levitsky (1945-1948)
