Conservative Judaism (journal)

Conservative Judaism is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. It is edited by Rabbi Martin Samuel Cohen.

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.^[1] 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."^[1]

Past editors have been:^[2]

• 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

Members of the editorial board have included:

• Ben Zion Bokser
• Max Kadushin (scholar of rabbinics)
• Robert Gordis (biblical scholar)
• Simon Greenberg (former vice-chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
• Judith Hauptman (Talmudist)^[2]
• Neil Gillman (theologian)^[2]
• Alan Cooper (biblical scholar)^[2]
• Jack Wertheimer (historian)^[2]
• David G. Dalin (historian)^[2]
• Ira F. Stone (Musar scholar)^[2]

References

1. Pamela Susan Nadell, Conservative Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook, page 314
2. See Conservative Judaism vol. 56