“…it will be fascinating to see if the term ‘Conservative’…makes a comeback in the form of the Conservative Jews who want to ‘hold the line’ on intermarriage”

…it will be fascinating to see if the term “Conservative” – which many Conservative Jews have tired of, either because it does not reflect their more progressive outlook or because it implies a history and identity that is dependent on being “not Reform” – makes a comeback in the form of the Conservative Jews who want to “hold the line” on intermarriage. That is to say, there are those who like to classify most Reform and Conservative Jews together as one somewhat elastic denomination, and if the boundaries of Jewish identity shift in the Conservative movement one imagines that that voice will become louder; the persistence of conservative Conservative Jews, which we might then just call Conservative, will signal a rehabilitation of the very roots of where the name came from originally!

Yehuda Kurtzer, Facebook post (26 May 2017) [https://www.facebook.com/yehuda.kurtzer/posts/10155415162267174]