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Conference taveng::bagels

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
Number of topics:1524
Total number of notes:18709

97.0. "Reconstructionist Movement" by DARTH::SCHORR () Mon Mar 31 1986 14:18

    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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97.1My thoughtsPFLOYD::CHERSONTue Apr 01 1986 09:299
    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.