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."

  • 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