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Conservatives: Have you noticed a lack in attendance?

I am blessed to live in a city with many, MANY synagogues, including 4 of the biggest and most beautiful conservative synagogues on Earth. I recently visited some of them as a good will mission to converse with local folks, check out their giant beautiful shuls, and schmooze. It was just a silly goof, but it scared me a lot.

Synagogue #1: I’ve never seen a shul with a gymnasium, play ground, play rooms, class rooms, nursery, toddler rooms, library…and only 1 family at the shul had children. Everyone I saw in attendance for shabbat shacharit was 65+ besides that 1 family. They had to install a ramp for aliyahs because many of the members are cane/walker/wheelchair bound. Shabbat morning attendance was about consistently 15.

Synagogue #2: The other shul, just down the street from me, is the biggest shul I’ve ever seen. But they have no rabbi on staff. They consistently cannot get 10 Jews to show up for Shabbat Shacharit and Torah service. The youngest guy I met was 45. I’ve never seen a synagogue bigger than a Walmart, with several dining halls bigger than olympic basketball courts…and all the lights are off. The siddur and chumash they had for services was from the 70s, I guess because that’s what everyone has been using for 50 years so why upgrade to the Etz Chayim chumash or Lev Shalem siddur? It would probably only confuse the crap out of the 80 year old members. Shabbat morning attendance was 8.

I will be visiting the other conservative shuls soon.

All of the conservative shuls also do not have weekday services nor Torah services on Monday/Thursday. (I don’t know if that’s weird but that seems weird?)

The other local Reform temples/Orthodox shuls did NOT look like this. It makes me profoundly sad to see these gorgeous synagogues empty. I heard at kiddush that attendance was down nationwide.

So my questions are: What happened? Are people jumping ship that much? Is this just anecdotal? Are you all experiencing similar attendance?

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