The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world’s religions – and since then, religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Reli

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Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement. The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena

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First Published in 1995. Throughout the nineteenth century the entire structure of the Ashkenazi world crumbled. What remains of Ashkenazi Jewry today is split