Reform movement

By Josh Daniels, Former Research Intern Josh Daniels is writing a two-part series of blog posts on the intellectual foundations of Reform Judaism. See his first post here. Once Reform Judaism began to spread to America, it encountered a very different environment than the one it came from back in Germany. Politically, the American Constitution promised rights to religious freedom, preventing the government from…

By Josh Daniels, Former Research Intern Growing up in a secular household, I had only a loose connection to the religion of Judaism.  I attended Hebrew school twice a week for five years, and studied eight months independently for my bar mitzvah.  I attended High Holiday services throughout my high school years, and ended up all but renounced my religious identity into college, where,…