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Reform Judaism
(Reform Juda|ism)
noun
[
mass noun
]
a form of Judaism, initiated in Germany by the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86), which has reformed or abandoned aspects of Orthodox Jewish worship and ritual in an attempt to adapt to modern changes in social, political, and cultural life.
Derivatives
Reform Jew
noun
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