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Rabbi Zecharias Frankel founded Conservative Judaism through his Positive-Historical approach, which studied the evolution of Jewish law through critical research while maintaining reverence for tradition. He served as chief rabbi of the Kingdom of Saxony in 1836 and later became chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau in 1854.
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America was established in 1886 in New York City by conservative ministers including Sabato Morais and Rabbi Alexander Kohut. The institution began as a small, fledgling organization with financial difficulties before receiving a $500,000 donation from Jacob Schiff in 1902 to appoint Solomon Schechter as Chancellor.
During the national conference held on the 13th of May 1948 in Chicago, the Rabbinical Assembly voted to reorganize the Committee of Jewish Law into the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. This new body gained the power to issue takkanot by a majority vote and enacted ordinances allowing driving on the Sabbath for worship and the use of electricity.
The movement allowed women to count as part of a quorum in 1973 and enacted a decision in 1983 to allow women rabbinic ordination. Rabbi Joel Roth adopted a responsa that enabled women to be ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary and other seminaries.
According to the Pew Research Center survey in 2013, 18 per cent of Jews in the United States identified with Conservative Judaism. Steven M. Cohen calculated that 962,000 U.S. Jewish adults considered themselves Conservative as of 2013.