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              Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism
                           Part IV: Reform Judaism
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                    [Last Post: Thu Jun 15 11:07:15 1995]

     "In keeping with the mitzvah of Talmud Torah... a Jewish home should
     have a library, and time should be set aside for the study of Torah"
     [GoM75]
     
   This message is intended to provide readers of soc.culture.jewish with
   a list of references to allow them to learn more about the current
   practices, past practices, beliefs, and history of the Reform Movement
   with Judaism.
   
   In general, throughout the reading lists, North American (US/Canada)
   terms are used to refer to the movements of Judaism. Outside of North
   American, Reform is Progressive or Liberal Judaism; Conservative is
   Reform or Masorti, and Orthodoxy is often just "Judaism". Even with
   this, there are differences in practice, position, and ritual between
   US/Canada Reform and other progressive/liberal movements (such as UK
   Progressive/ Liberal), and between US/Canada Conservative and the
   conservative/Masorti movement elsewhere. Where appropriate, these
   differences will be highlighted.
   
   One of the four major movements within Judaism, the Reform or Liberal
   Movement (the term "Reform" seems to be more prevalent in the U.S.A.,
   "Liberal" or "Progressive" elsewhere) began in the 1800's in Germany
   during the enlightenment. Adherents to Reform typically do not follow
   all of the ritual practices of their traditional bretheren; practices
   that are followed are chosen based on how they increase the sanctity
   of the follower's life.
   
   Additional information on the Reform/Progressive movements in Judaism
   may be found in the Reform Judaism FAQ, which is part 10 of the
   Soc.Culture.Jewish FAQ.

   Reproduction of this posting for commercial use is subject to
   restriction. 

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Subject: ORGANIZATION

   This reading list is organized as follows:
     * Introduction to this Reading List 
     * Where Can I Get These Books From? 
     * Reform Beliefs 
     * Reform Rituals and Practice
     * Reform Liturgy 
     * Reform Responsa 
     * Reform History 
     * The Bible 
     * The Rabbinate 
       

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Subject: Where Can I Get These Books From?

   CCAR
          All books published by the CCAR are available through the
          Central Conference of American Rabbis. Call 212/684-4990 for an
          up-to-date catalog or to order.
          
   UAHC Press
          838 Fifth Avenue/New York NY 10021
          (212) 249-0100/(212) 734-2857 FAX
          
   World Union for Progressive Judaism
          838 Fifth Avenue/New York NY 10021
          

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Subject: Reform Beliefs

   [Bae58a]
          Baeck, Leo. G@d and Man in Judaism. Translated from the German
          by A. K. Dallas. New York : Union of American Hebrew
          Congregations, 1958.
          
   [Bor84]
          Borowitz, Eugene. Liberal Judaism. Union of American Hebrew
          Congregations Press. ISBN 08074-0264-8. 1984
          
   [Bor77]
          Borowitz, Eugene. Reform Judaism Today. New York : Behrman
          House, c1977.
          
   [Bor91]
          Borowitz, Eugene B. Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the
          Postmodern Jew. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society,
          1991.
          
   [Coh48]
          Cohon, Samual S. Judaism as a Way of Life, UAHC Press, 1948.
          
   [Git83]
          Gittelsohn, Roland B. The Extra Dimension: A Jewish View of
          Marriage. UAHC Press, NY. 1983. #168500. ISBN 0-8074-0170-6.
          
   [Jac85]
          Jacob, Walter. The Changing world of Reform Judaism: The
          Pittsburgh Platform in Retrospect: Papers Presented On The
          Occasion Of The 100th Anniversary Of The Pittsburgh Platform.
          Pittsburgh : Rodef Shalom Congregation, 1985.
          
   [Rei87]
          Reines, Alvin J. Polydoxy: Explorations in a Philosophy of
          Liberal Religion. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c1987.
          
   [Ste82]
          Stevens, Elliot (ed). Rabbinic Authority: Papers Presented
          Before the Ninety-first Annual Convention of the Central
          Conference of American Rabbis. New York: CCAR Press. 1982. ISBN
          0-916694-88-7.
          
   [Symxx]
          Syme, Daniel B. An Overview of Reform Judaism. UAHC. #280020.
          ISBN 0-8074-0260-5.
          

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Subject: Reform Rituals and Practice

   [GoM79]
          Shaarei Mitzvah: Gates of Mitzvah, A Guide to the Jewish Life
          Cycle. Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1979. ISBN
          0-916694-37-2 Hardback, 0-916694-53-4 Pbk. [This book
          summarizes the Reform position on the life cycle events]
          
   [GoS83]
          Shaarei Mo-Eid: Gates of the Seasons, A Guide to the Jewish
          Year CCAR. CCAR Press. ISBN 0-916694-92-5 Pbk 1983. [This book
          summarizes the Reform position on the year cycle events]
          
   [GoS91]
          Shaarei Shabbat: Gates of Shabbat. CCAR. CCAR Press. ISBN
          0-88123-010-3. 1991. [This book provides Reform guidelines on
          Shabbat observance.]
          
   [Bar90]
          Barth, Lewis M. (ed.) Berit Mila in the Reform Context. UAHC
          #381631. Carol Pub. Group [for the] Berit Mila Board of Reform
          Judaism, Secaucus NJ. 1990.
          
   [Bia71]
          Bial, Morrison D. Liberal Judaism at Home. UAHC. #383110 ISBN
          0-8074-0075-0. 1971.
          
   [Sch69]
          Schauss, Hayyim. The Jewish Festivals: From Their Beginnings to
          Our Day. UAHC, 1969.
          
   [Sch50]
          Schauss, Hayyim. The Lifetime of a Jew. UAHC. 1950.
          
   [Sym88]
          Syme, Daniel B. The Jewish Home: A Guide for Jewish Living.
          UAHC #142614. UAHC Press, New York. 1988. ISBN 0-8074-0400-4.
          

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Subject: Reform Liturgy

   [GoP95]
          Gates of Prayer for Shabbat and Weekdays: Gender Sensitive
          Edition. Central Conference of American Rabbis: 1995. ISBN
          0-88123-063-4.
          
   [GoP75]
          Shaarei Tefila: Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayerbook,
          Volume I. Central Conference of American Rabbis. ISBN
          0-916694-01-1. 1975. [Weekly prayerbook]
          
   [GoR78]
          Shaarei Teshuva: Gates of Repentance: The New Union Prayerbook,
          Volume II. Central Conference of American Rabbis. ISBN
          0-916694-38-0. 1978. [High Holiday Prayerbook]
          
   [GoU77]
          Shaarei Bina: Gates of Understanding, Volume I: Weekdays,
          Sabbaths, and Festivals. Central Conference of American Rabbis.
          ISBN 0-916694-43-7. 1977. [Notes and source material for GoP]
          Shaarei Bina: Gates of Understanding, Volume II: For the Days
          of Awe. Central Conference of American Rabbis. ISBN
          0-916694-84-4. 1977. [Notes and source material for GoR]
          
   [APH74]
          A Passover Haggadah. Central Conference of American Rabbis.
          ISBN 0-916694-05-4. 1974. [Pesach Siddur]
          
   [Rosxx]
          Rosenberg, Aaron. Divrei Benei Mitzvah. CCAR Press. ISBN
          0-88123-016-2.
          
   [UPB47]
          Union Prayer Book I and II. Central Conference of American
          Rabbis. 1947. [The previous prayerbook. I corresponds to GoP;
          II to GoR.]
          
   There are a number of other liturgical books available from CCAR press
   (ISBN in []): Gates of Healing (for those in the hospital)
   [0-88123-005-7], Gates of Awe (for very young children)
   [0-88123-014-6], Haneirot Halalu: These Lights are Holy (Chanuka)
   [0-88123-006-5], Al Mezuzot Beitecha: On the Doorposts of your House
   [ISBN 0-88123-043-X], Seder Tu Bishevat (for Tu B'Shevat)
   [0-88123-008-1], Gates of Wonder (for very young children)
   [0-88123-009-X], Six Days of Destruction (Yom HaShoah)
   [0-8091-2999-X], Gates of Song [8074-0406-3], Gates of Forgiveness
   (Selichot) [0-916694-74-7], Shaarei Tefila Le-Noar: Gates of Prayer
   for Young People (ISBN 0-88123-045-6]).

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Subject: REFORM RESPONSA

   [Baz77]
          Bazak, Jacob (compl, annot. and arranged by); Passamaneck,
          Stephen M. (trans., annot., and edited by). Jewish Life and
          Jewish Law: Selected Rabbinical Responsa. 8 vols. UAHC Press,
          New York Book 1: Lawyers, Judges and Legal Ethics (#390000)
          Books 2,3,4: Contracts, Real Estate, Sales, and Usury (#180211)
          Books 5,6: Credit, Law Enforcement, Taxation (#180212) Books
          7,8: Criminal and Domestic Relations (#180213)
          
   [Chaxx]
          Chatinover, Steven (Ed.) CCAR Combined Index to all Responsa.
          IBM Compatible Disk. An online version may be found at
          http://shamash.org/reform/ccar/resp/
          
   [Fre55]
          Freehof, Solomon B. The Responsa Literature Philadelphia :
          Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955.
          
   [Fre60]
          Freehof, Solomon B., Reform Responsa. Hebrew Union College
          Press, Cincinnati, 1960.
          
   [Fre63]
          Freehof, Solomon B., Recent Reform Responsa. Hebrew Union
          College Press, Cincinnati, 1963.
          
   [Fre69]
          Freehof, Solomon B., Current Reform Responsa. Hebrew Union
          College Press, Cincinnati, 1969.
          
   [Fre71]
          Freehof, Solomon B., Modern Reform Responsa. Hebrew Union
          College Press, Cincinnati, 1971. [Fre74] Freehof, Solomon B.,
          Contemporary Reform Responsa. Hebrew Union College Press,
          Cincinnati, 1974.
          
   [Fre77]
          Freehof, Solomon B., Reform Responsa for our Time. Hebrew Union
          College Press, Cincinnati, 1977.
          
   [Fre81]
          Freehof, Solomon B., New Reform Responsa. Hebrew Union College
          Press, Cincinnati, 1981.
          
   [Fre90]
          Freehof, Solomon B. Today's Reform Responsa. Cincinnati :
          Hebrew Union College Press, 1990. [Includes cumulative index to
          author's previous volumes of responsa.]
          
   [Jac83]
          Jacob, Walter, American Reform Responsa. Central Conference of
          American Rabbis, ISBN 0-916694-83-6. 1983.
          
   [Jac87]
          Jacob, Walter, Contemporary American Reform Responsa. Central
          Conference of American Rabbis, ISBN 0-88123-003-0. 1987.
          
   [Jac9x]
          Jacob, Walter. Questions and Reform Jewish Answers: New
          American Reform Responsa. CCAR Press. ISBN 0-88123-035-9.
          
   [Lau51]
          Lauterbach, Jacob Z. Rabbinic Essays. Hebrew Union College
          Press, Cincinnati, 1951.
          

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Subject: Reform History

   [Lev29]
          Levy, Felix. "Moses Mendelssohn's Ideas of Religion and Their
          Relation to Reform Judaism", in Yearbook of the CCAR, Vol 39.
          CCAR, New York. 1929.
          
   [Mey88]
          Meyer, Michael A. Response to Modernity : A History of the
          Reform Movement in Judaism. Oxford University Press, New York,
          NY. 1988.
          
   [Phi67]
          Philipson, David. The Reform Movement in Judaism. New York:
          Ktav Pub. House. 1967.
          
   [Pla65]
          Plaut, W. Gunther. The Growth of Reform Judaism. World Union
          for Progressive Judaism, 1965.
          
   [Pla63]
          Plaut, W. Gunther. The Rise of Reform Judaism. World Union for
          Progressive Judaism, 1963.
          
   [Sil74]
          Silver, Daniel J. and Bernard Martin. A History of Judaism.
          Basic Books. 1974.
          
   [Sol40]
          Soloff, Mordecai, How the Jewish People Lives Today. Union of
          American Hebrew Congregations. 1940.
          

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Subject: The Bible

   [Pla74]
          Plaut, W. Gunther. The Torah, A Modern Commentary. UAHC. ISBN
          0-8074-0165-X/UAHC-4.
          
   [Fie93]
          Fields, Harvey. A Torah Commentary For Our Times. UAHC. 1990,
          1991, 1993.
          
   [Fre57]
          Freehof, Solomon B. Preface To Scripture. UAHC. 1957.
          

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Subject: The Rabbinate

   [Fre64]
          Freehof, Solomon B. Reform Jewish practice and Its Rabbinic
          Background. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, c1944,
          1964.
          
   [Got67]
          Gottschalk, Alfred. Your Future as a Rabbi: A Calling That
          Counts. New York : R. Rosen Press, 1967.
          
   [Got88]
          Gottschalk, Alfred. To Learn and To Teach: Your Life as a
          Rabbi. New York : Rosen Pub. Group, 1988.
          
   [Pol77]
          Polner, Murray. Rabbi: The American Experience New York : Holt,
          Rinehart and Winston, c1977.
          
   [Ros77]
          Rosenthal, Gilbert. The American Rabbi: A Tribute on the
          Occasion of the Bicentennial of the United States, and the
          Ninety-Fifth Birthday of the New York Board of Rabbis. New York
          : Ktav Pub. House, 1977.
          

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Subject: Archival and Credits

  Anonymous FTP:
  
   All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on
   shamash.org [192.77.173.13] and on rtfm.mit.edu, and are available
   for anonymous FTP. On shamash.org, the parts of the FAQ are stored in
   the israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ directory. On rtfm.mit.edu, these FAQs
   are stored in the pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism/FAQ directory. Note
   that the archived versions of the FAQ are the posted versions; that
   is, they are each one large ASCII file.
   
   The following is the mapping of reading lists to files:
   
   general
          Introduction and General. Includes book sources, starting
          points for beginners, starting points for non-Jewish readers,
          General Judaism, General Jewish Thought, General Jewish
          History, Noachide Laws, Torah and Talmud, Mishnah and Talmud,
          Torah and Talmudic Commentary, Midrash, Halachic Codes,
          Becoming An Observant Jew, Women and Judaism, and Science and
          Judaism.
          
   traditional
          Traditional Liturgy, Practice, Lifestyle, Holidays. Includes
          Traditional Liturgy; Traditional Philosophy and Ethics; Prayer;
          Traditional Practice; The Household; Life, Death, and
          In-Between; and The Cycle Of Holidays.
          
   mysticism
          Kabbalah, Mysticism, and Messianism. Includes Academic and
          Religious treatments of Kabbalah, Sprituality, and the Jewish
          notion of the Messiah.
          
   reform
          Reform/Progressive Judaism
          
   conservative
          Conservative Judaism
          
   reconstructionist
          Reconstructionist Judaism
          
   humanistic
          Humanistic Judaism (Society for Humanistic Judaism)
          
   chasidism
          Chassidism. Includes general information on historical
          chassidism, as well as specific information on Lubavitch
          (Chabad), Satmar, Breslaw (Breslov), and other approaches.
          
   zionism
          Zionism. Includes Zionism and The Development Of Israel, The
          Founders, Zionistic Movements, and Judaism in Israel.
          
   antisemitism
          Antisemitism. Includes sections on Antisemitism, What Led to
          The Holocaust, Medieval Oppression, Antisemitism Today
          (Including Dealing with Hate Groups), Judaism and Christianity,
          and Judaism, Freemasonry and other rumors.
          
   intermarriage
          Intermarriage. Includes sections on "So You're Considering
          Intermarriage?", The Traditional Viewpoint, Conversion, and
          Coping With Life As An Intermarried.
          
   periodicals
          Periodicals. Includes Topical General Interest Periodicals,
          General Interest Periodicals focused on Tradition and Home,
          General Interest Periodicals focused on Jewish Scholarship,
          Other General Interest Periodicals, Publications Targeted For
          Specific Movements, Rabbinic Journals, and Local Publications.
          
   childrens
          Books for Jewish Children. Includes.
          
   The following is the mapping of sections of the Frequently Asked
   Questions to files:
   
   01-FAQ-intro
          Section 1: Network and Soc.Culture.Jewish Information
          
   02-Who-We-Are 
          Section 2: Who We Are
          
   03-Torah-Halacha 
          Section 3: Torah
          Section 4: Halachic Authority
          
   04-Observance 
          Section 5: Jewish Holidays
          Section 6: Jewish Dietary Law and Kashrut
          Section 7: Sabbath and Holiday Observance
          Section 8: Woman and Marriage
          
   05-Worship 
          Section 9: Jewish Worship
          Section 10: Conversion, Intermarriage, and "Who is a Jew?
          Section 11: Miscellaneous Practice Questions
          
   06-Jewish-Thought 
          Section 12: Jewish Thought
          
   07-Jews-As-Nation 
          Section 13: Jews as a Nation
          
   08-Israel 
          Section 14: Jews and Israel
          
   09-Antisemitism 
          Section 15: Churban Europa (The Holocaust)
          Section 16: Antisemitism and Rumors about Jews
          Section 17: Countering Missionaries
          
   10-Reform 
          Section 18: Reform/Progressive Judaism
          
   11-Miscellaneous 
          Section 19: Miscellaneous
          Section 20: References and Getting Connected
          
   12-Kids
          Section 21: Jewish Childrearing Related Questions
          
   mail-order
          Mail Order Judaica
          
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Subject: Credits

   The list below is culled from suggestions on soc.culture.jewish, an
   additional reading list developed by R. A. Levene, and the author's
   personal experience. A large portion was based on "A Basic Library for
   The Jewish Home" in [Gom75]. "Netters" that have recommended books for
   the list or made suggestions include: Mark B. Novick, John Sadowsky,
   Rabbi Charles Arian, Eric Bram, and others.

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