Definitions

1. Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish movement in North America today. (Web site)
2. Reform Judaism is a religious movement, a community of faith dedicated to G-d. (Web site)
3. Reform Judaism is one of the two North American denominations affiliated with the World Union for Progressive Judaism.
4. In Reform Judaism, the point is moot. (Web site)
5. In Reform Judaism, the use of a tallit was declining during much of the 20th century, but in recent years, it has returned to favor. (Web site)

Change

1. Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism may re-interpret or even change a law through a formal argument. (Web site)

Individual

1. Why? Because one of the guiding principles of Reform Judaism is the autonomy of the individual. (Web site)

History

1. One of the most important figures in the history of Reform Judaism is the radical reformer Samuel Holdheim.

Opposition

1. At that time Ungvar's spiritual head, Rabbi Meir Ash, was active in the Orthodox camp, in opposition to the Neologs (followers of Reform Judaism).

Creation

1. This approach was the dominant form of Reform Judaism from its creation until the 1940s. (Web site)

Position

1. Especially identified with the position taken by Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) in opposition to Reform Judaism. (Web site)

Union

1. URJ Camp Kalsman is the 13th camp in the Union for Reform Judaism 's system, which will open in Washington in Summer 2007.

Valid

1. All of these positions are considered equally valid within Reform Judaism. (Web site)

Laws

1. Most Jews in Reform Judaism have considered these laws a hindrance, rather than a facilitator, of piety; this is still the mainstream Reform position. (Web site)

Binding

1. In Reform Judaism, it is the individual who decides which beliefs, if any, to adopt as binding. (Web site)

Congregations

1. In the mid 20th century some congregations in Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism began counting women as part of the minyan. (Web site)

Movement

1. Samuel Holdheim (1806 – 22 August 1860) was a German rabbi and author, and one of the more extreme leaders of the early Reform Judaism movement.
2. Conservative Jews saw their movement as a compromise between the iconoclasm of Reform Judaism and the rigidity of Orthodox Judaism. (Web site)

Abortion

1. Reform Judaism must, therefore, be more certain of the grounds for abortion, but would still permit it. (Web site)

Seder

1. In Reform Judaism, Birkat HaMazon is not required but is often recited in communal settings and during the seder.

Monotheism

1. He believed that Reform Judaism should be based soley upon monotheism and morality. (Web site)
2. Reform Judaism has always promoted monotheism. (Web site)

Seven Days

1. Reform Judaism observes Passover over seven days, with the first and last days being a major holidays.

Normative

1. Reform Judaism does not follow Jewish law as normative, so its leaders do not feel the need to justify their practice within the system of Jewish law. (Web site)

Orthodox

1. Note that Reform Judaism in Canada and England adopts a different position, closer to the Orthodox one, at least in some congregations. (Web site)

Orthodox Jews

1. Reform Judaism generally does not require a get, but Conservative and Orthodox Jews consider remarriage without a get to be adultery.

Torah

1. Reform Judaism does not believe that the Torah was written by G-d.
2. Conservative and Reform Judaism accept modern critical views that the Torah i.e.

Messianic Judaism

1. In modern times, Reform Judaism, Zionism, and messianic socialism are forms of messianic Judaism. (Web site)

Anti-Zionism

1. Since the Holocaust and the establishment of the modern State of Israel, Reform Judaism has totally repudiated anti-Zionism. (Web site)

Contrast

1. Reform Judaism has had a number of official platforms, but in contrast to rabbinic Judaism, rejects the view that Jews must have any specific beliefs.
2. In contrast to Orthodoxy, Reform Judaism has never assigned a central religious role to the ancient Temple.

Orthodox Judaism

1. It generally takes a shorter time to convert to Reform Judaism than to Orthodox Judaism, although the willingness of reform rabbis to accept converts varies. (Web site)
2. Frankel rejected the positions taken by both those in Orthodox Judaism and in Reform Judaism as deviations from traditional Judaism.
3. Conservative and Reform Judaism emerged in 19th-century Germany as an effort to modify the strictness of Orthodox Judaism. (Web site)

Liberal Judaism

1. We are a Reform congregation, a member of the Union for Reform Judaism, in the mainstream of liberal Judaism.
2. In the United Kingdom, the movement known as Liberal Judaism corresponds most closely with the views of American Reform Judaism. (Web site)

Conservative Judaism

1. Reform Judaism does not believe in the binding nature of Torah, and Conservative Judaism believes that the law can change. (Web site)
2. This definition of Jewishness is still followed by all of Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, and most of Reform Judaism outside of the USA.
3. Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, and the Reconstructionist movement have different views. (Web site)

Reconstructionist Judaism

1. Reform Judaism ordained its first woman rabbi in 1972, Reconstructionist Judaism in 1974, and Conservative Judaism in 1985.
2. Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism hold that these laws are no longer binding. (Web site)

Jewish

1. Reform Judaism accepts the child of one Jewish parent (father or mother) as Jewish if the parents raise the child with a Jewish identity. (Web site)

Progressive Judaism

1. Liberal Judaism and Reform Judaism in the UK may be collectively referred to as " Progressive Judaism ".
2. Other movements within the World Union for Progressive Judaism have adopted essentially the same position as U.S. Reform Judaism. (Web site)

Oral Law

1. Reform Judaism does not recognize the absolute and literal Divine origin of either the written or the oral law. (Web site)

First Day

1. In Reconstructionist Judaism and Reform Judaism, some communities do indeed observe only the first day of Rosh Hashanah, while others observe two days.
2. Reform Judaism observes Passover over seven days, with the first day being a major holiday when a seder is held. (Web site)

Conservative

1. Today, as in the time of Abraham, it is required of converts in Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Judaism.
2. Conversely, both Conservative and Reform Judaism accept the stringent Orthodox conversion process as being valid. (Web site)
3. Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Judaism see messianic Jewish groups as hijacking and perverting Jewish symbols and rituals.

Germany

1. The earliest leaders of Reform Judaism at first rejected circumcision in Germany in the 1840s when it was largely a lay-led movement.
2. In the Germany of the 19th century, Abraham Geiger and Samuel Holdheim stood out as the two founding fathers of Reform Judaism. (Web site)
3. Reform Judaism, which had begun in Germany as a movement that asserted the negation of Jewish nationalism, was annihilated in its mother country.

Jew

1. In Jewish tradition, any child born of a Jewish mother is considered a Jew; in Reform Judaism a child is considered a Jew if either parent is Jewish. (Web site)
2. American Reform Judaism accepts the child of one Jewish parent (father or mother) as Jewish if the parents raise the child as a Jew by Reform standards. (Web site)

Precedence

1. Reform Judaism emphasizes the ethical and moral teachings of the prophets and the rabbis as taking precedence over many ritual practices. (Web site)

Literature

1. Reform Judaism feels no necessity to justify each segment of the literature in terms of every other portion as done through hidushim and pilpul. (Web site)

Observance

1. Reform Judaism developed a prayer service in the vernacular, and emphasized personal connection to Jewish tradition over specific forms of observance.

Kashrut

1. In Reform Judaism, these rules are only followed in those households that find the observance of Kashrut a meaningful practice. (Web site)

Jews

1. Historically, Reform Judaism actively opposed kashrut as an archaism inhibiting the integration of Jews in the general society.
2. Reconstructionist and Reform Judaism do not observe the distinctions between Kohanim, Levites, and other Jews. (Web site)
3. Reform Judaism rejected the classical rabbinic teaching that the Jews were in exile ("galut"). (Web site)

Talmud

1. Claiming that Reform Judaism was the essential Judaism, Geiger nonetheless denied the Torah and Talmud and adopted many practices from the German Church. (Web site)
2. Reform Judaism With the rise of Reform Judaism, during the nineteenth century, the authority of the Talmud was again questioned. (Web site)
3. Orthodox and, to a lesser extent, Conservative Judaism accept the Talmud as authoritative, while Reconstructionist and Reform Judaism do not. (Web site)

Wedding Ceremony

1. Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism have created new customs governing the wedding ceremony.
2. Reform and Conservative adaptations Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism have however created new minhagim ("customs") in the wedding ceremony.

Women

1. In Reform Judaism, prayer is often conducted in the vernacular and men and women have equal roles in religious observance.
2. Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism allow women to wear tefillin. (Web site)

Judaism

1. Those denominations accepting outside influence on the practice of Judaism are known as Conservative and Reform Judaism. (Web site)
2. In the United States of America, Reform Judaism rejects the concept that any rules or rituals should be considered necessary for conversion to Judaism. (Web site)
3. Such families are welcomed in Reform congregations, and Reform Judaism continues to urge them to convert to Judaism. (Web site)

Rabbis

1. In Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism, both men and women may be rabbis. (Web site)
2. Many rabbis with Conservative and Reform Judaism, and some within Reconstructionist Judaism, reject this program as insufficiently rigorous.
3. Its members are the body of rabbis who consider themselves and are considered to be the organized rabbinate of Reform Judaism.

Halakha

1. Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism tend to explicitly interpret Halakha to take into account sociological factors. (Web site)

Jewish Law

1. Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism hold that halakha (Jewish law) is no longer binding, so weddings may be held on any of these days.
2. Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism do not accept the Halakha (Jewish law) as normative, so technically they do not have firm rules against it.
3. Reconstructionist Judaism and Reform Judaism do not maintain the traditional requirements for study as rooted in Jewish Law and traditionalist text. (Web site)

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