Study: Many Conservative rabbis open to officiating at interreligious wedding

c. 2015 Religion News Service

(RNS) A controversial new survey of Conservative rabbis shows that nearly four in ten (38 percent) would officiate at the marriage of a Jewish person to someone of another tradition—if the Conservative movement lifted its prohibition on these unions.

The survey of 249 Conservative rabbis also found that about the same proportion (39 percent) would like their governing body, the Rabbinical Assembly, to discuss whether the prohibition on presiding at intermarriages should be reconsidered. The research was conducted by Big Tent Judaism, a New York-based nonprofit that aims to make Jewish communities more welcoming to intermarried Jewish couples.