REFORM JEWS CONFRONT CHANGE From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) | Date: January 17, 1999| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

DAVID GIBSON, Religion Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
01-17-1999
REFORM JEWS CONFRONT CHANGE -- FLIRTING WITH TRADITIONALISM
By DAVID GIBSON, Religion Writer
Date: 01-17-1999, Sunday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday

Ever since 1885, when 18 Reform rabbis met in Pittsburgh to write
the movement's first statement of principles, Reform Judaism has proudly
billed itself as the standard-bearer of liberal Jewish practice in
America.

The Pittsburgh confab did away with such time-honored traditions as
the dietary laws and the mandatory use of skullcaps and prayer shawls,
and as ...

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