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The Conservative movement is often characterized as being the type of Judaism you adopt when you do not want to be too religious, but not to irreligious either. Such is not the case. Conservative Judaism involves a positive philosophy and program: it is not just a wishy-washy mix of whatever is nor Reform or Orthodox.
Reconstructionist Judaism.
Reconstructionist Judaism is the newest and smallest of the organized religious movements in American Judaism. The ideology of the movement received its primary inspiration from the teachings of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan. While Kaplan has had a considerable influence upon the other major movements (Conservative, Reform, and even modern Orthodox,) it is Reconstructionist Judaism that has attempted through programming to carry out the full implications of his insights. Yet, Reconstructionism today is broader than Kaplanism. During the past several decades a number of his interpreters and critics have expanded, modified, and helped with the diversity of the nature of Reconstructionism. These include Rabbis who have graduated from the Reconsrtuctionist Rabbinical College.
Reconstructionism philosophy rest on the centrality of the concept Am Yisrael-- the Jewish people is the primary element in the tradition triad-"god, Torah, Israel." A Jewish person seeks God and creates Torah. Reconstructionism differs from the Orthodox Judaism, which puts primary emphasis on Torah (halachah-Jewish law), and from Reform, which places "God" or theology at the core of the definition of Judaism. The Conservative movement even though it, too, has traditionally considered the Jewish people as the central element in its understanding of Judaism, has, in the Reconstructionism view, permitted a nostalgic traditionalism to restrain it from allowing people hood to work out its full and natural implications.
American Orthodoxy.
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Orthodoxy, first on the American scene, has reemerged in the latter half of the twentieth century as a major component of American Jewry's religious spectrum.
