Like old entertainers, Reformism has become a silly stereotype of itself. It reflects all the bad habits of a liberal movement in chaos and headed to self-imposed irrelevancy: egalitarianism driven into imposition of opposite favoritism on behalf of women, embrace of homo sexuality, an idolatrous sense of people knowing more than G-d, disconnection from the larger Jewish world, disconnection from the larger Jewish past, old lessons lost in favor of the flavor of the day, creative and experimental liturgy, ritual without purpose or meaning, lack of knowledge which cannot be recognized due to over-sensitive egos, style over substance, feelgoodism, need to "belong" replacing the need to actively participate, liberal political agenda replacing halacha, law, and legitimate Jewish philosophic approach. The list can go on. It isn't really hard to see but you won't find "scholarly" analysis which will tell the truth.
Ask the two elderly lesbians that were the first to marry in CA. They had a fight over who got to stomp the glass.
Is the answer, “nothing”?
I can’t bring myself to read a long article on this subject.
Bump for later
Gay marriage anyone?
Six-pointed Unitarians....
Having belonged briefly to a Reform congregation as a child and then for a considerably longer period when I "returned" in the late 80's, I would say that what Reform stands for is: If it feels good do it, and celebrate it. (The only thing "it" cannot include seems to me to be a place for Jesus.) It's sad that this article contains only two oblique mentions of the word "Torah."
(FTR, I used to describe myself as "Reform leaning toward Orthodox," but about five years ago I switched to a "Conservadox" congregation.)
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