And the Conservative movement's position on intermarriage?

While the Conservative movement discourages intermarriage, its approach, which used to be very similar to that of the Orthodox, has been modified over the years. Originally, the Conservative movement regarded anyone who had intermarried as having done so in a conscientious rejection of Judaism (and when intermarriage was a rare occurrence this might indeed have been the case in most such instances). Today, though, the Conservative movement regards intermarriage as due more to the result of living in an open society, As Mimi G. Sommer stated about the Conservative movement's attitude: "We no longer consider intermarriage an evil; it is a challenge." Thus the movement's Joint Commission on Response to Intermarriage stated that "if our children end up marrying non-Jews, we should not reject them." Instead, the Commission hoped that by opening up to the members of such intermarriages, the non-Jewish partner might come to eventually convert to Judaism. This approach is especially important, the Commission noted, when the vast majority of children of such intermarriages are not raised as Jews.

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