The Orthodox – Conservative Split and Rabbi Solomon Goldman  In
its time, the Cleveland Jewish Center case in 1927-1929 was
considered the Scopes Monkey trial for the Orthodox community,
fully covered by JTA and the Jewish newspapers, generating a
public reaction of creating lasting denominational sides.  Rabbi
Solomon Goldman a graduate of RIETS and JTSA and a follower of
Mordecai Kaplan was challenged by a fraction of his congregation
that did not like the direction that he was taking his 1500
family synagogue. They started a court case to force the rabbi
to abide by old-time Orthodoxy.  Before proceeding it is
important to not confuse denominations and deviant practices. A
denomination is a fixed self defining group with a common name,
structure, and doctrine. They have separated themselves from
competing groups and are know as their own group. A deviance is
a practice done within a single denomination. An Orthodox rabbi
who advocates the abolition of Yom Kippur is a deviant not a
denomination. Or the 1960