When the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Laws and Standards [CJLS] passed their multiple tshuvot [rulings] this past December about whether gays and lesbians can be ordained as rabbis, the press reported it — with white-bread oversimplification — as a victory for gay ordination. The facts are far more complicated, and far more, well, Jewish. The rulings offer complex opinions — mutually irreconcilable ones (two of them argue against the ordination of homosexuals). What they don’t offer is a single, simple bottom line.