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Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices and organizational infrastructure associated with Reform Judaism in North America
Reform Judaism (North America)

Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish denominations of American Jews today. With an estimated 1.1 million members, it also accounts for the largest number of Jews affiliated with Progressive Judaism worldwide....
 and in the United Kingdom
Reform Judaism (United Kingdom)

Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom in one of the two forms of Progressive Judaism found in the United Kingdom, the other being Liberal Judaism ....
. The term also may refer to the Israeli Progressive Movement
Progressive Judaism (Israel)

Progressive Judaism is the Israeli equivalent of reform Judaism....
, the worldwide Progressive movement
Progressive Judaism

Progressive Judaism is an umbrella term used by strands of Judaism which affiliate to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. They embrace pluralism, modernity, equality and social justice as core values and believe that such values are consistent with a committed Jewish life....
, the Reform movement in Judaism
Reform movement in Judaism

Reform movement in Judaism is an historic and on-going religious and social movement that originated simultaneously in the early nineteenth century in the United States and Europe....
, and the magazine Reform Judaism
Reform Judaism (magazine)

Reform Judaism is the official magazine of the Union for Reform Judaism. Its print edition has a quarterly circulation to 300,000 households, synagogues, and other Jewish institutions....
.

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Reform Judaism (North America)

Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish denominations of American Jews today. With an estimated 1.1 million members, it also accounts for the largest number of Jews affiliated with Progressive Judaism worldwide....
 is one of the two North American denominations affiliated with the World Union for Progressive Judaism
World Union for Progressive Judaism

The World Union for Progressive Judaism describes itself as the "international umbrella organization for the Reform Judaism, Liberal Judaism, Progressive Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism movements." This overall Jewish religious movement is based in about 40 countries with more than 1,000 affiliated synagogues....
. It is the largest denomination
Jewish denominations

Several groups, sometimes called "denominations", "branches," or "movements," have developed among Jews of the modern era, especially Ashkenazi Jews living in anglophone countries....
 of American Jews today. With an estimated 1.1 million members, it also accounts for the largest number of Jews affiliated with Progressive Judaism
Progressive Judaism

Progressive Judaism is an umbrella term used by strands of Judaism which affiliate to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. They embrace pluralism, modernity, equality and social justice as core values and believe that such values are consistent with a committed Jewish life....
 worldwide.

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Reform Judaism (United Kingdom)

Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom in one of the two forms of Progressive Judaism found in the United Kingdom, the other being Liberal Judaism ....
 is one of two Progressive
Progressive Judaism

Progressive Judaism is an umbrella term used by strands of Judaism which affiliate to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. They embrace pluralism, modernity, equality and social justice as core values and believe that such values are consistent with a committed Jewish life....
 movements in the UK.






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Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices and organizational infrastructure associated with Reform Judaism in North America
Reform Judaism (North America)

Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish denominations of American Jews today. With an estimated 1.1 million members, it also accounts for the largest number of Jews affiliated with Progressive Judaism worldwide....
 and in the United Kingdom
Reform Judaism (United Kingdom)

Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom in one of the two forms of Progressive Judaism found in the United Kingdom, the other being Liberal Judaism ....
. The term also may refer to the Israeli Progressive Movement
Progressive Judaism (Israel)

Progressive Judaism is the Israeli equivalent of reform Judaism....
, the worldwide Progressive movement
Progressive Judaism

Progressive Judaism is an umbrella term used by strands of Judaism which affiliate to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. They embrace pluralism, modernity, equality and social justice as core values and believe that such values are consistent with a committed Jewish life....
, the Reform movement in Judaism
Reform movement in Judaism

Reform movement in Judaism is an historic and on-going religious and social movement that originated simultaneously in the early nineteenth century in the United States and Europe....
, and the magazine Reform Judaism
Reform Judaism (magazine)

Reform Judaism is the official magazine of the Union for Reform Judaism. Its print edition has a quarterly circulation to 300,000 households, synagogues, and other Jewish institutions....
.

Reform Judaism in North America

Reform Judaism
Reform Judaism (North America)

Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish denominations of American Jews today. With an estimated 1.1 million members, it also accounts for the largest number of Jews affiliated with Progressive Judaism worldwide....
 is one of the two North American denominations affiliated with the World Union for Progressive Judaism
World Union for Progressive Judaism

The World Union for Progressive Judaism describes itself as the "international umbrella organization for the Reform Judaism, Liberal Judaism, Progressive Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism movements." This overall Jewish religious movement is based in about 40 countries with more than 1,000 affiliated synagogues....
. It is the largest denomination
Jewish denominations

Several groups, sometimes called "denominations", "branches," or "movements," have developed among Jews of the modern era, especially Ashkenazi Jews living in anglophone countries....
 of American Jews today. With an estimated 1.1 million members, it also accounts for the largest number of Jews affiliated with Progressive Judaism
Progressive Judaism

Progressive Judaism is an umbrella term used by strands of Judaism which affiliate to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. They embrace pluralism, modernity, equality and social justice as core values and believe that such values are consistent with a committed Jewish life....
 worldwide.

Reform Judaism in Britain


UK Reform
Reform Judaism (United Kingdom)

Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom in one of the two forms of Progressive Judaism found in the United Kingdom, the other being Liberal Judaism ....
 is one of two Progressive
Progressive Judaism

Progressive Judaism is an umbrella term used by strands of Judaism which affiliate to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. They embrace pluralism, modernity, equality and social justice as core values and believe that such values are consistent with a committed Jewish life....
 movements in the UK. For details on the relationship between the two progressive movements, see Progressive Judaism (United Kingdom)
Progressive Judaism (United Kingdom)

Progressive Judaism in the United Kingdom consists of two organizationally distinct denominations - Liberal Judaism and Reform Judaism ...
.

Progressive Judaism in Israel


After a failed attempt in the 1930s to start an Israeli movement, the World Union for Progressive Judaism
World Union for Progressive Judaism

The World Union for Progressive Judaism describes itself as the "international umbrella organization for the Reform Judaism, Liberal Judaism, Progressive Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism movements." This overall Jewish religious movement is based in about 40 countries with more than 1,000 affiliated synagogues....
 tried again in the 1970s and created the movement now known as the Israeli Progressive Movement
Progressive Judaism (Israel)

Progressive Judaism is the Israeli equivalent of reform Judaism....
. Because the first rabbis in the 1970s were trained in the United States, the Israeli press and public often refers to the Israeli Progressive Movement
Progressive Judaism (Israel)

Progressive Judaism is the Israeli equivalent of reform Judaism....
 as "Reform".

Reform movement in Judaism


Along with other forms of non-orthodox Judaism, the US Reform
Reform Judaism (North America)

Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish denominations of American Jews today. With an estimated 1.1 million members, it also accounts for the largest number of Jews affiliated with Progressive Judaism worldwide....
, UK Reform
Reform Judaism (United Kingdom)

Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom in one of the two forms of Progressive Judaism found in the United Kingdom, the other being Liberal Judaism ....
, and Israeli Progressive Movement
Progressive Judaism (Israel)

Progressive Judaism is the Israeli equivalent of reform Judaism....
 can all trace their intellectual roots to the Reform movement in Judaism
Reform movement in Judaism

Reform movement in Judaism is an historic and on-going religious and social movement that originated simultaneously in the early nineteenth century in the United States and Europe....
. Elements of Orthodoxy developed their cohesive identity in reaction to the Reform movement in Judaism
Reform movement in Judaism

Reform movement in Judaism is an historic and on-going religious and social movement that originated simultaneously in the early nineteenth century in the United States and Europe....
.

Although US Reform, UK Reform, and Israeli Progressive Judaism all share an intellectual heritage, they have taken places at different ends of the non-orthodox spectrum. The US Reform movement reflects the more radical end. The UK Reform and Progressive Israeli movements, along with the US Conservative
Conservative Judaism

Conservative Judaism is a modern Jewish denominations of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s....
 movement and Masorti
Masorti

The Masorti movement is the name given to Conservative Judaism in Israel and other countries outside Canada and United States. It is part of the Conservative movement....
 Judaism, occupy the more conservative end of the non-orthodox Judaisms.

See also

  • Beliefs and practices in Progressive Judaism, for more about the platforms of the different denominations of Reform Judaism

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