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