REFORM JUDAISM


   QUIZ   


(All answers can be found in the Summer 1999 issue.)
  1. Define "ba'alei teshuvah."
  2. What is the purpose of the "mikveh"?
  3. What does Judaism have to say about the issue of maintaining privacy in our lives?
  4. Why did the early Reform Jews reject the widespread belief in the Messiah and replace it with aspirations for a Messianic Age?
  5. What does Judaism have to say about the "yetzer ha-ra"--the evil inclination?
  6. What is the origin of the "Kaddish" prayer?
  7. Who was the biblical woman Serah bat Asher and what role did she play in the narrative?
  8. It has been said that the new Reform movement prayer book, which is currently in the making, "promises to make history." Why?
  9. In creating a new prayer book, what are some of the "thorny issues" dividing and challenging Reform Jewry ?
  10. What historic Jewish figure proposed the possibility of a secular humanistic society?
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