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Reform Judaism - Some Questions and Answers
Acknowledgement:
The Questions and Answers are from the booklet ‘What is Reform Judaism' by Rabbi Tony Bayfield. Rabbi Bayfield is the Head of the Reform Movement. He was the first Rabbi of North West Surrey Synagogue, from 1972 until 1982.
Q1. Are you expected to believe in God if you join a Reform synagogue?
Q2. Do you believe in Torah?
Q3. What is so special about the Torah?
Q4. What are Reform services like?
Q5. Do Reform Jews keep Shabbat?
Q6. What about Kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws?
Q7. Does Reform Judaism include all of the traditional life cycle observances?
Q8. Do Reform Jews practise Mitzvot?
Q9. Is Reform Judaism an halakhic movement?
Q10. How do you cope with intermarriage?
Q11. Is it true that a lot of Reform rabbis are women?
Q12. Who is a Jew according to Reform Judaism?
Q13. What does Reform Judaism have to say about the world beyond the synagogue?
Q14. What is the Reform position on Israel?
Q15. How does Reform Judaism get on with the other strands of Judaism in Britain?
Q16. So what is Reform Judaism?
