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Third-generation Conservative rabbi resigns from movement after facing punishment for performing intermarriages - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

MINNETONKA, MINNESOTA, AUG 11 – Rabbi Ari Yehuda Saks resigned after facing ethics scrutiny for officiating interfaith weddings, challenging a policy that bars clergy despite 70% intermarriage among non-Orthodox Jews, Pew found.

When the Conservative movement’s ethics committee opened an investigation into his participation in interfaith weddings, Rabbi Ari Yehuda Saks didn’t wait for the verdict.  On Sunday, the third-generation Conservative rabbi resigned from the Rabbinical Assembly, saying he considers helping Jews who choose to wed outside their religion part of a rabbi’s duty to bless and embrace all who seek connection — even if his denomination calls it a violat…

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency broke the news in on Monday, August 11, 2025.
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