Title: | BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest |
Notice: | 1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration |
Moderator: | SMURF::FENSTER |
Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Can anyone enlighten me as to the Reconstructionist Movement. How would one place them on a scale of orthodoxy. Beliefs and Practices? Thanks, WS
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97.1 | My thoughts | PFLOYD::CHERSON | Tue Apr 01 1986 09:29 | 9 | |
The Reconstuctionist movement (to my knowledge) would find itself in the spectrum, somewhere between Reform, Conservative, and Traditional Judaism. I know that sounds silly on the surface, but the movement was given birth by the late Rav Eliezer Kaplan (Z"L). He wanted something that would be a compromise between the Reform and Conservative, and Orthodox movements. I also think that the Reconstructionists were the first to pioneer women's participation in services, etc. |