• Thumbnail for Reform Judaism
    Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the...
    105 KB (14,146 words) - 12:48, 30 April 2024
  • 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...
    28 KB (3,418 words) - 09:24, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Judaism
    Conservative and Reform Judaism are more liberal, with Conservative Judaism generally promoting a more traditionalist interpretation of Judaism's requirements...
    233 KB (26,041 words) - 02:25, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Movement for Reform Judaism
    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...
    28 KB (3,140 words) - 11:19, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conversion to Judaism
    Conversion to Judaism (Hebrew: גִּיּוּר, romanized: giyur or Hebrew: גֵּרוּת, romanized: gerut) is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion...
    66 KB (8,191 words) - 20:13, 13 May 2024
  • ultratraditionalist and Modern Orthodox branches) and modernist movements such as Reform Judaism originating in late 18th century Europe, Conservative (Masorti) originating...
    99 KB (9,922 words) - 20:25, 18 May 2024
  • The American Conference of Cantors is an affiliate of the Union for Reform Judaism. In 2013 Mark C. Goldman became the first openly gay president of the...
    10 KB (1,320 words) - 23:24, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conservative Judaism
    Conservative Judaism (known as Masorti Judaism outside North America) is a Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition...
    89 KB (11,946 words) - 01:38, 14 May 2024
  • Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, and Reform Judaism. Baruch Spinoza, Mordecai Kaplan, and prominent atheists have criticized Judaism because its...
    36 KB (4,374 words) - 14:30, 13 May 2024
  • Conservative Judaism, whereas Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism accept full Jewishness through either parent; Reform responsa, however, requires...
    44 KB (5,764 words) - 15:02, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reconstructionist Judaism
    Reconstructionist Judaism is recognized by many scholars as one of the five major streams of Judaism in America alongside Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Humanistic...
    29 KB (3,234 words) - 03:57, 4 May 2024
  • conversion. Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism accept both matrilineal and patrilineal descent as well as conversion. Karaite Judaism predominantly...
    113 KB (14,422 words) - 08:10, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orthodox Judaism
    Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism. Theologically, it is chiefly defined by regarding the...
    102 KB (13,056 words) - 04:53, 17 May 2024
  • The Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism (IMPJ; Hebrew: התנועה הרפורמית – יהדות מתקדמת בישראל, romanized: Hatnua HaReformit – YaHadut Kadima...
    13 KB (1,542 words) - 18:52, 7 May 2024
  • 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...
    4 KB (372 words) - 15:45, 11 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Messiah in Judaism
    The Messiah in Judaism (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, romanized: māšīaḥ) is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer...
    63 KB (8,249 words) - 23:25, 16 May 2024
  • of Reform Judaism (WRJ), formerly known as the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, is the women's affiliate of the Union for Reform Judaism. As...
    6 KB (689 words) - 18:59, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Women in Judaism
    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...
    111 KB (12,695 words) - 16:50, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neolog Judaism
    Hungary's Jews. In the early 19th century, when the first attempts to reform Judaism under the influence of Enlightenment (Haskalah) were made, they had...
    27 KB (3,603 words) - 00:25, 16 November 2023
  • the Movement for Reform Judaism. It is considered ideologically closer to American Reform Judaism than it is to the British Reform movement. As of 2010...
    20 KB (2,223 words) - 11:02, 5 May 2024
  • there is a Reform view that the shul or synagogue is a modern Temple; hence, "Temple" appears in numerous congregation names in Reform Judaism. Indeed,...
    56 KB (7,098 words) - 01:21, 6 April 2024
  • officiation at such marriages." In 1997 the General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism (formerly known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations) passed...
    15 KB (1,905 words) - 19:18, 30 January 2024
  • the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism has stated that "Jews and American Indians have much in common", citing...
    20 KB (2,204 words) - 23:47, 12 May 2024
  • Reform Zionism, also known as Progressive Zionism, is the ideology of the Zionist arm of the Reform or Progressive branch of Judaism. The Association of...
    11 KB (1,438 words) - 17:50, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jewish principles of faith
    Judaism does not centralize authority in any single individual or group. The formulation of principles of faith that are universally recognized by all...
    73 KB (10,386 words) - 06:22, 9 May 2024
  • Theologically liberal branches such as Reconstructionist, Humanistic, and Reform Judaism have all openly accepted homosexuality, homosexual intercourse, and...
    96 KB (10,625 words) - 20:51, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jewish eschatology
    day... (Emet ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism) Reform Judaism generally concurs with the more liberal Conservative perspective...
    33 KB (4,382 words) - 18:23, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chumash (Judaism)
    by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea L. Weiss, Union for Reform Judaism/Women of Reform Judaism, 2008 Zaklikowski, Dovid. "What does Chumash mean?". Chabad...
    7 KB (748 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2024
  • by the major rabbinical organizations of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism. In a 2014 poll, 57 percent of Jews surveyed said they supported life...
    35 KB (4,279 words) - 21:53, 21 March 2024
  • In Judaism, views on abortion draw primarily upon the legal and ethical teachings of the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the case-by-case decisions of responsa...
    27 KB (3,623 words) - 06:31, 9 May 2024