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Article: Reform movement to develop ethics curriculum for children
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- November 10, 1998
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
11-10-1998
Reform movement to develop ethics curriculum for children
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (JTA) -- A year ago Rabbi Eric Yoffie, addressing some 4,000 Reform movement leaders gathered at their biennial conference, called for a new code of ethics to be developed and taught to children.
He said in his first address as president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations that the Reform movement was failing to communicate clear moral guidance to its youth.
Hotels in downtown Toronto had been refusing to book Bar and Bat Mitzvah receptions unless the parents hired private security guards, he pointed out. The reason? Kids attending these Reform ...