 Finkelstein was also perceived as focusing on American and world Jewry as a whole while paying little attention to the Conservative movement.According to scholar Michael Panitz, the situation changed under Finkelstein's successors.Under Chancellor Gerson Cohen (chancellor from 1972–86), JTS "decisively embraced its identity as a Conservative Jewish institution, it thereby abandoned its earlier hopes to provide a non-denominational unifier for traditional and moderate American Jews."