Reform Judaism adapted some practices from Christian church services. true or false?

True, Eddie and Ruth and Hatikvah are correct.


Adding a choir was one change that many Reform synagogues still embrace. Men and women sitting together is another. Holding services at least partially in the common spoken language of the country ( German for Germany, English for the US and UK) alongside the traditional Hebrew...those were Reforms, styled after churches.





It astonished me when I discovered this, as an adult, too. Some of the practices, such as actually holding Sunday services, stopped long before most of us were born. My mother, born in 1927 had never even heard of such a practice as Sunday services until I learned about it as an adult. And I'm born in 1958 and raised a Reform Jew. I believe that since WW2 primarily, the trend has been and remains toward reaffirmation of more traditional Jewish worship.


';The great contribution of Reform Judaism is that it has enabled the Jewish people to introduce innovation while preserving tradition, to embrace diversity while asserting commonality, to affirm beliefs without rejecting those who doubt, and to bring faith to sacred texts without sacrificing critical scholarship.'; %26lt; this from link below





Reform Judaism began in an atmosphere in Europe and the US that there was a great amount of antisemitism and discrimination, and IMHO, so many Jews believed that if they tried to ';fit in'; better, to assimilate..that the discrimination and bigotry may lessen.





Germany was where this movement began.





You can see from history that notion didn't work.





From it's rather radical beginning in Eurpe in the 19th century until today, Reform Judaism has reembraced a much more traditional approach to Judaism while still being progressive in terms of trying to fit in with modern times and technology. Thankfully, we do concern ourselves more with trying to make sure that what we call progress does not diminish the value or honor of Torah.





Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish movement in the United States. I much prefer the term movement rather than branch primarily because for a great many Jews, it is quite hard to place a firm label on which group they ';fit';. I know many Jews, some within my own extended family who call themselves Conserva-dox because they fit sort of half-way between those two in observance. Other Jews I know will attend a Reform synagogue, but live in almost every other aspect of their life as an Orthodox Jew. Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, all affirm the same Torah, the same faith and direct connection to God and say most of the same prayers and embrace the same ethics and philosophy. It is how we observe the laws, customs and rituals that differ.





The core beliefs in all three branches are essentially the same with regard to what each major branch reads in Torah. It is why you find most of us responding here in Yahoo primarily in agreement, rather than disagreement over what Jews believe. We often disagree over how to honor and live what we believe, but we each read the same Torah, and we share a common connection as Klal Yisrael ( the community of Israel, the covenant nation people) There are often wide differences in customs and level of observance of dietary laws or other aspects of what we now call Orthodox observance.


Where we differ primarily is in how we observe the Mitzvot (commandments, obligations of the covenant)


All branches of Judaism have the same Holy Scriptures, the Torah, Neviim and Ketuviim ( Tanakh ).





If you are interested in learning what Reform Judaism is today, please peruse the references below.


Shalom y'allReform Judaism adapted some practices from Christian church services. true or false?
Absolutely Not





The Greek Septuagint was Given to Us by the Heberews. And thus True Chrsitian Church follow a lot of Traditons from The Hebrew Scriputres..





Greeks with the Jews that they became the first people to translate the Bible into another language when King Ptolemy II (c. 250 BCE) 70 Rabbis to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek (known as the Septuagint, which means ';70'; in Greek).


http://www.aish.com/jl/h/48929692.html





THUS FALSE.. REFORM JUDAISM ADAPTED NO PRACTISES FROM CHRISTIANITY





And certainly Did not Adapt anything from the Christian First Greeek New Testament as Reform Judaism DOES NOT RECOGNIZE CHRISTIANITY AT ALL








IC XC NIKA


From A Greek Orthodox Katholikos ( Gr First Universal ) APostolic


Christian of the First Greeek Septuagint and First Greek New TestamentReform Judaism adapted some practices from Christian church services. true or false?
LOL LOL - for a short time we reversed the usual pattern which is Christianity 'borrowing' things from Judaism (our scriptures, our concept of 'maschiach',) and yes, as others have noted we 'borrowed' a few superficial things.
answer: Yes. Fortunately, there's been a surge in the opposite direction, most synagogues and Reform Jews becoming more observant.
True. In fact, for a short time, they held services on Sundays. There are still a few who oppose the move back toward conservatism.





Well said, Mama Pajama!


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Why ever would they do that ?


Why would they take something from a lesser 'philosophy'?


You're not trying to play an entry for those crazy jews4jeez, are you ?


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Well, I was surprised to hear the organ played on Sabbath in a Reform synagogue of Paris.
Some superficial stuff, such as a choir.
True
Well that's a step in the right direction.
All that was Judaism was destroyed by God in AD 70.