Modern Jewish Religion
Moses Sofer
Austro-Hungarian rabbi who fought against the influence of Reform.
Havurah Judaism
The havurah movement and The Jewish Catalog blended Judaism with the 1960s counterculture.
Jewish Spiritual Crisis
In America around the turn of the 20th century, Jews had the freedom to not observe religion and rabbis were scarce.
Humanistic Judaism
The origins of a small Jewish movement that embraces a cultural identity while rejecting a belief in God.
The Pittsburgh Platform, 1885
Principles of Reform Judaism: A primary historical document.
Samson Raphael Hirsch: The Father of Neo-Orthodoxy
The 19th-century rabbi who shaped a modern Orthodox community in bridging traditional practice and Enlightenment thinking.
A Short History of Orthodox Judaism in America
A history from colonial times to World War II.