Article: As Reform movement evolves, temples embrace more ritual

Article: Some Reform temples find success in raising the age ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency;  May 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Those numbers are appalling," Guttman says. In the Reform movement, he estimates, "if a congregation bar-mitzvahs 50 to ... and still others have kept to the traditional schedule. Reform movement surveys indicating that 50 percent of teenagers stop religious ...

Article: Reform temples try to gain unaffiliated via ...
Cleveland Jewish News;  April 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Correcting this misconception is the basis for a new membership program sponsored by Fairmount and three other East Side Reform temples. The four - Fairmount Temple, Suburban Temple-Kol Ami, Temple Emanu El and The Temple-Tifereth Israel - are now offering ...

Article: FOCUS ON ISSUES: Reform movement looks ahead to new ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency;  February 13, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... FOCUS ON ISSUES:. Reform movement looks ahead to new ... feathers, and the Reform movement has to ruffle feathers ... all new members of Reform temples have never been previously ... affiliated with the Reform movement, and one-quarter ...

Article: Rabbi Samuel Volkman, 97; Led 2 Area Reform Temples
The Washington Post;  February 20, 2006 ;     445 words ...Samuel Volkman, 97, a 13th-generation Jewish spiritual leader who led two Reform congregations in the Washington area, died Feb. 18 at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in the Bronx, N.Y. He had Alzheimer's disease. Rabbi Volkman led Congregation Ner Shalom in Woodbridge from 1974 until the late 1980s,

Article: Zionist elections in U.S. may now take place online
Jewish Telegraphic Agency;  May 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... concerned that if the registration begins just prior to the High Holy Days, it may give an advantage to the Reform movement. Reform temples might be more permissive about allowing registration and campaign talk while in the pews, compared with ...

Article: New leader of Reform Jewry seeks `education, worship' focus
Jewish Telegraphic Agency;  May 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... leadership of the Reform movement's flagship organization ... the doors of the Reform movement to intermarried couples ... of new members of Reform temples are non-Jews, according to recent Reform movement study. Although ...

Article: "The First of Causes to Our Sex": The Female Moral Reform ...
Church History;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Causes to Our Sex": The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834 ... Daniel Wright's study on the female reform movement, whose membership reached approximately ... analyzes data related to the moral reform movement in three small towns in New Hampshire ...