Reform Judaism (North America)
Reform Judaism is the largest denomination of American Jews today. With an estimated 700 000 members, it also accounts for the largest number of Jews affiliated with Progressive Judaism worldwide.
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Famous quotes containing the words reform and/or judaism:
“When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)