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What would our ancestors have done if they had seen a Jewish community appointing a prayer-reader and a rabbi for themselves dressed in the vestments of a Christian priest, and setting up an idol in…
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Akiva Joseph Schlesinger
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Ungvár, Habsburg Empire (Uzhgorod, Ukraine)
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1864
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The chief hypocrite of Russia who sold his soul and his ideas to the Hasidim for the price of 2,000 shekels wrote the following: “If any man says, I am a Jew in accordance with the law of Moses (Mende…
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Ephraim Deinard
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1899
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I am Rabbi Balfour Brickner. I serve as the national director of the Commission on Interfaith Activities, a joint commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Jewish Chautauqua Society…
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Balfour Brickner
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Washington, United States of America
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1974
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Reform Judaism is a phenomenon of man’s restless spirit. At its best it is a dynamic faith—and its very dynamism…
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W. Gunther Plaut
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Toronto, Canada
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1963
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In view of the wide divergence of opinion and of the conflicting ideas prevailing in Judaism today, we, as representatives of Reform Judaism in America, in continuation of the work begun at…
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The Conference of Reform Rabbis
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Pittsburgh, United States of America
Date:
1885
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Our generation came to this country from lands where Jewish life had been lived within its own boundaries, and where our communal leaders had instilled in us a sense of responsibility to ensure that…
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Leibush Lehrer
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New York City, United States of America
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ca. 1939
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[ . . . ] The Judaism into which Heine was born and with which he had to come to terms as a maturing man was the Judaism of the German reform. This was, to be sure, no longer the reform, creative in…
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Leo Löwenthal
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Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Late 1920s
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During the thousands of years of its history, Judaism has learned and experienced a good deal. In its people the commanding urge to think further, to struggle with ideas, has…
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Leo Baeck
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1922
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In view of the changes that have taken place in the modern world and the consequent need of stating anew the teachings of Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis makes…
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Central Conference of American Rabbis
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Columbus, United States of America
Date:
1937
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There are facts of such an overwhelming power that even the most stubborn opinion must yield to them. Such a fact is the origin of Judaism in the midst of rude surroundings, like a vigorous…
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Abraham Geiger
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Frankfort, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1864