The cantor (Hebrew: חַזָּן Hazzan or Hazan) in the Reform movement is a clergy member who fills a diverse role within the Jewish community. Cantors lead...

of Ashkenazi Judaism allow women to serve as cantors. Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism ordain cantors from seminaries. Cantors in Sephardic communities...

Elazar Cantor Meyer Kanewsky's 1919 performance of the last part of Parshat Haketoret, a passage often read after the morning service in Judaism. Problems...

Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the...

The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), formerly known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) until 2003, founded in 1873 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer...

Reform Judaism, formally the Movement for Reform Judaism (MRJ) and known as Reform Synagogues of Great Britain until 2005, is one of the two World Union...

Conservative and Reform Judaism are more liberal, with Conservative Judaism generally promoting a more traditionalist interpretation of Judaism's requirements...

Roots of Reform Judaism is an advocacy group within the constituency of the American Union for Reform Judaism. The group's primary focus is a return to...

service. The term is also used for a similar task in Reform Judaism and in Ancient Egypt. Generally, a cantor must be competent to choose and conduct the vocals...

Conservative Judaism, whereas Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism accept full Jewishness through either parent; Reform responsa, however, requires...

Theologically liberal branches such as Reconstructionist, Humanistic, and Reform Judaism have all openly accepted homosexuality, homosexual intercourse, and...

radical in comparison with the other one, the Movement for Reform Judaism. It is considered ideologically closer to American Reform Judaism than it is...

Women in Judaism have affected the course of Judaism over millenia. Their role is reflected in the Hebrew Bible, the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic literature)...

modernist movements such as Reform Judaism originating in late 18th century Europe, Conservative (Masorti) originating in 19th century Europe, and other...

Conservative Judaism (known as Masorti Judaism outside North America) is a Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition...

clergy in Judaism were ordained as rabbis and/or cantors in the second half of the 20th century. Allen Bennett became the first openly gay rabbi in the United...

Seminary (Conservative) will begin ordaining its cantors. Beginning in the mid to late 1990s, the Reform, Renewal and Conservative Jewish movements have...

ideas of "enlightened" and liberal Judaism. Salomon Sulzer was a deputy in the synod; the sole representative of cantors and synagogue musicians—testifying...

main seminary for training rabbis, cantors, educators and communal workers in Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR has campuses in Cincinnati, Ohio, New York City, Los...

women for a minyan. All denominations of Judaism except for Orthodox Judaism ordain female rabbis and cantors. There is a publicly said prayer, called...

invested as a cantor, and in 2001, she was ordained as a rabbi by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, a seminary for Reform Judaism. She was...

American seminary for Reform Judaism. 2002: American Sharon Hordes was ordained as Reconstructionist Judaism's first cantor in 2002. Suzan Johnson Cook...

except Orthodox Judaism allow women as well as men to be ordained as rabbis and cantors. The leadership of a Jewish congregation is, in fact, in the hands of...

study of Judaism, Frankel was at first considered a moderate figure within the nascent Reform movement. He severely criticized the 1844 first Reform rabbinic...

year one onwards. All Reform seminaries ordain women and LGBTQ people as rabbis and cantors. The seminary of Reform Judaism in the United States is Hebrew...

Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) is the international umbrella organization for the various branches of Reform, Liberal and Progressive Judaism, as well as...

Deborah Cohen became the first Reform Jewish mohelet to be certified (by the Berit Mila Program of Reform Judaism). In the popular sitcom Seinfeld, a...

of the German Reform Judaism movement, launched an egalitarian, modernist stance that challenged the Orthodoxy. The resulting fractures in Jewish society...

of the Union for Reform Judaism reported that the congregation has 3,383 members. The congregation was founded in 1941 in Detroit, in just 60 days before...

confessions. Many Jewish denominations, such as Reconstructionist Judaism (vs. Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, etc.), focus less on sins and more on one’s...