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Definition of Reform jew
1. Noun. Liberal Jew who tries to adapt all aspects of Judaism to modern circumstances.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reform Jew
Literary usage of Reform jew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Convention by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1919)
"But, you will say, does this not mean that the reform jew, the liberal Jew, who
holds that he must live among men, is headed straight toward what you call ..."
2. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1919)
"But, you will say, does this not mean that the reform jew, the liberal Jew, who
holds that he must live among men, is headed straight toward what you call ..."
3. Views on the Synod by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1905)
"I do not believe that the reform jew in the United States will much follows and
be interested in advice given by an ecclesiastical body, such as I believe ..."
4. Yearbook of American Churches: 1st -40th Issue; 1915-1972 by Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (1922)
"Broadly speaking, then, the so-called orthodox Jew is distinguished from the
so-called reform Jew by a more rigid observance of the "ceremonial" ..."
5. Hebrew Union College, and Other Addresses by Kaufmann Kohler (1916)
"So is the attitude of the true reform Jew today— of the Jew who reclaims the
entire so-called Christian civilization for Judaism, and does not plan a ..."
6. The Spiritual Unrest by Ray Stannard Baker (1910)
"The orthodox Jew still looks to a miraculous coming of the Messiah, and a physical
return of all Jews to Jerusalem. The reform jew be- ..."
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