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Reform Judaism - Some Questions and Answers
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4. What are Reform services like?
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Anyone with knowledge of the traditional liturgy will immediately notice that Reform services follow the traditional structure and all the familiar prayers – bar'chu, sh'ma, amidah, aleinu, kaddish – are there.
What is striking is the use of some English, some new material, the decorum and participation and, above all, the fact that women and men sit, participate and lead together.
The musical tradition of the British Reform Movement is largely a choral one though there is a renewed interest in some communities in cantorial music, chazanut.
Reform Synagogues hold services both on Friday night and on Saturday morning and observe all the festivals on exactly the same days as in Israel. Some larger Reform Synagogues also offer daily minyanim (literally ‘quorum’ i.e. services).
Acknowledgement: ‘What is Reform Judaism' by Rabbi Tony Bayfield.
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