Reform Judaism
John Moscowitz started out as a New Left activist, then turned to Judaism, then broke with the orthodoxies of his own liberal movement. In a new book, he takes stock.
And dissected the layers of the Mishnah.
An outstanding theologian of Reform Judaism.
A restoration of tradition.
The maḥzor from the 1890s to the present.
Or was he mistranslated?
It offers answers to Diaspora questions, not Israeli ones.
The Hebrew phrase tikkun olam—“fixing the world”—has come to be one of the most well-known concepts in American Judaism, cited even by the President. In. . .
In embracing intellectual fads and political activism, the Reform movement has robbed itself of its very reason for being. (1992)
What happens when a Judaism of personal choice replaces one of obligation? Just look at the Reform movement, with its 80-percent attrition rate.
Some Reform rabbis have taken to justifying intermarriage by invoking an utterly fanciful biblical prototype; they couldn’t have picked a more damaging or counterproductive religious strategy.
Having retired as chief rabbi in the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks intends to “go global” as a roving Jewish intellectual; will he also venture beyond. . .
If the decline of non-Orthodox Judaism is to be reversed, knowledge, ritual, and observance must become as central as social justice to Conservative and Reform Jews.