What happened in 1883 in the Reform Rabbis Banquet?

Question

In 1883, the Reform Rabbis had a banquet...
Something about Kashrut?

anyone wanna help me out?

Answer 1

Conservative Judaism originated from a breach that developed in the Reform movement. At a banquet held in 1883 to honor the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, the caterer, who was himself Jewish, served shrimp, one of the foods forbidden to Jews who follow kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws. Several members of the board of trustees along with a number of rabbis left the banquet in a rage, convinced that they could not make common cause with Reform Jews who apparently sought to ridicule them and to denigrate the customs and precepts they cherished. From this relatively minor incident Conservative Judaism was born.

Answer 2

sdb deacon-- got the answer right.

basically a group of Rabbis thought the Reform movement was going too far in its changes and sought to "conserve" Judaism.

Thus Conservative Judaism was born.

--and as a side note will also be how it dies when it eventually merges again with Reform.