What's Reformed about Reform Judaism?: Halakhah and Public Embodiment

This article proposes a twist to the traditional halakhah-centered story of what is different about Reform Judaism: I suggest that even though we might describe American Reform Judaism’s distinctiveness as its approach to law – its conviction that Jewish law must be interpreted to fit the lives of J...

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Main Author: Imhoff, Sarah (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University 2019
In: Journal of religion & society. Supplement
Year: 2019, Volume: 18, Pages: 90-102
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