Reforming Reform Judaism.
From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought
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Date: 6/22/1999
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Author: WOLF, ARNOLD JACOB
IN 1885 IN PITTSBURGH, A SMALL GROUP OF REFORM radical rabbis led by David Einhorn and his sons-in-law Emil G. Hirsch and Kaufmann Kohler, produced a document that was to mold American Judaism for decades to come. Its authors were profoundly opposed to Judaism in its traditional form and messianically confident of the glorious future of its alternative, Reform. They were mostly fine scholars in the noble tradition of Abraham Geiger, but they were very poor theologians. Their naivete ...
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