-- The modern Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish movements ordain female rabbis. -- The Conservative Jewish movement began to ordain women within the past 20 years. -- Orthodox Judaism has never ordained women.
Union for Reform Judaism was created in 1873.
Reform Judaism prizes Jewish Identity over Jewish ritual.
No. Reform Judaism started in Germany, in the 19th Century.
Society for Classical Reform Judaism was created in 2008.
Men can be Rabbis in all forms of Judaism. In Liberal Judaism (Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, etc.), women can also be Rabbis. There is currently a few practicing female clergy in Orthodox Judaism, but they are not considered Rabbis since it is forbidden for women to be Rabbis in Orthodox Judaism.
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism was created in 1961.
Reform Judaism is the most lenient branch of Judaism, no matter where you live.
In orthodox Judaism, the men are separated from the women, some sects don't allow women in at all. In reform Judaism, the seating arrangement is generally the same as in the majority of western Churches; men and women sit together, they are not segregated. Pews or chairs
A gathering of ten Jewish men (or women in reform and conservative Judaism) for the purpose of prayer is called a minyan.
Reform Judaism officially recognizes same-sex marriage as valid and many Reform rabbis will perform same sex weddings.
No. Reform Judaism does not believe in Jesus. Individual Jews have varying opinions about Jesus, but he is not part of the religion at all.