Abstract
Gerald L. Zelizer gives the impression that Conservative Judaism in the US during his term as president of the Rabbinical Assembly from 1992-94 was healthy and thriving. However, he did not reveal that the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, which he cited in his analysis, indicates that the number of self-identifying adherents to Reform Judaism has been growing steadily in many parts of the US since the 1970s. Conservative Judaism is in serious trouble because of increasing social polarization, the lack of clear doctrinal boundaries, the erosion of the hierarchical authority based on the halakhah and wrong sense of priorities.