Can I just say how much Reform Judaism frustrates me? I'm not even Jewish, but it drives me crazy talking to Jewish friends who buy into this stuff. Conservative Judaism? Fine. Orthodox? Great! Branches of Sephardic that border on Orthodox? Spectacular. But Reform just frustrates me. I look at it and say that this can't be Judaism, but who am I to say that it isn't? I can call it ascriptural to anti-scriptural if I want, but that doesn't seem to bother them.
My late Grandfather would be what many called "ultra-Orthodox." He had a name for Reform Jews: "Christians."
Mark
I hope that my Christian friends here on FR don't mind my quoting him here. It's not a put-down on Christians. He believed in honesty. And as far as he was concerned, Reform Jews were more interested in assimilation with the popular culture, and he saw America as a Christian country. Honestly, that's what he thought. But then he was born in Poland in 1890, and died in 1984.
The "Conservatives" are not far behind the "Reform."
Even the "Conservative" branch of Judaism is accepting homosexual "marriages."
I read the article on here a few weeks ago.