# Reform Judaism · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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Reform Judaism
Liberal or Progressive Judaism
1810s CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · US, UK, Germany, Israel, worldwide
VII. THE MODERN AGE — 1800 – 1945
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1810 CE Jacobson's temple at Seesen; organ, German sermon, confirmation.
- 1819 CE Hamburg Temple; fierce Orthodox opposition.
- 1840s CE Rabbinical conferences in Germany; Geiger's scholarship.
- 1873, 1875, 1889 CE Wise founds the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Hebrew Union College and the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
- 1883 CE The Trefa Banquet — shellfish served at the first HUC ordination dinner — precipitates the split that produces Conservative Judaism.
- <strong>1885 CE</strong> Pittsburgh Platform: the most radical statement, rejecting dietary law, the return to Zion and bodily resurrection, and defining Jews as a religious community rather than a nation.
- 1937 CE Columbus Platform reverses course on Zionism and peoplehood, under the pressure of events in Europe.
- 1939–45 CE German Reform Judaism, the movement's birthplace, is destroyed.
- <strong>1972 CE</strong> Sally Priesand ordained — the first woman rabbi in America.
- 1983 CE Patrilineal descent accepted.
- 1990–2015 CE Full inclusion of LGBT members and clergy; same-sex marriage.
- Present Ongoing conflict with the Israeli rabbinate, which does not recognise Reform conversions or marriages.
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