Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism

LCCJ representatives meet twice a year at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in New York City, to co-ordinate on issues of movement-wide concern.

One of the first projects approved by the LCCJ was Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism, published in 1988.

This concern largely became a non-issue after the left-wing of the movement seceded in 1968 to form the Reconstructionist Judaism movement, and after the right-wing seceded in 1985 to form the Union for Traditional Judaism.

In 1988, the nascent LCCJ gave its imprimatur to Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism.

In accord with classical rabbinic Judaism, it agrees that Jews must hold certain beliefs.