a movement reacting against the radicalism of Reform Judaism, rejecting extreme change and advocating moderate relaxations of traditional Jewish law, by an extension of the process by which its adherents claim traditional Orthodox Judaism evolved
Compare Orthodox Judaism, Reform Judaism
Conservative Judaism in American English
noun
Judaism as observed by Conservative Jews
Word origin
[1945–50]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: ergative, on-line, poison pill, regression analysis, synchronized swimming