What are the key differences between Orthodox and Reform Judaism?

Answer 1

Reform Judaism is a more relaxed type of Judasim where more free interperatation is allowed. Conservative is closer to orthadox, which is the ultra-Jewish type where you follow the Torah word for word. They are just two types. Conservative services often have more Hebrew in the services, also, and more conservatives eat kosher than reform.

Answer 2

Key difference is the extent to which Jewish law (Halakhah) is changeable. Orthodoxy holds that Halakhah is essentially fixed and that the job of contemporary sages is to interpret it in light of changes in society, technology, etc. Conservative Judaism holds that Halakhah changes over time and the job of contemporary sages is to determine whether new halakhah is necessary to meet the changes.

Answer 3

Orthodox Judaism often calls for the literal interpretation of the ethical laws found in what Christians call the Old Testament, in addition to the Talmud, while Reform Judaism generally argues, that it is better just to stick with the ethics that have timeless applications. Are all moral laws of the ancient world applicable to modern times? Of course not, here's an example;

Spartan ethics say, if someone insults you, you drag him outside the city limits and chop off his head. Obviously, that has no modern application, anywhere, not if you want to be put on a straight jacket.

However, Spartan ethics also say that when you do your exercises, you train until you feel like you're dying. If you are a profesional athlete that easily has a modern application. Provided you are young enough to withstand such punishment that is.

Judaism, because it is such an old religion, faces the problem that not all the ethics talked about in the Old Testament have timeless applications. For example, in the ancient world, most people were perfectly okay with genocide; if a group of people did not respect you, if they treated you badly, it was perfectly okay to simply exterminate them. Obviously in this day and age that is a big no no given human rights laws.

The way ancient people saw things, was this; genocide in the name of self defense was okay, but not genocide like the kind the Saxons engaged in. The Germanic peoples of Europe did not conquer; they exterminated. Racism found in the largely Germanic United States goes much deeper than you think; the ancient Goths, the ancestors of all Teutonic peoples, believed that their people was fathered by Heimdall, guardian of the rainbow bridge to Asgard the realm of the Aesir gods.

The human race, according to ancient Norse myth, was born from three adulterous unions. In the remote ancient earth there were three couples, old, middle aged, and young. The brown skinned peoples of the world, and yes the ancient Norse were aware of their existence, were the children of Heimdall, and the old crone, because they were born from an old crone, they were weak, inferior, and stupid. The peoples of Europe, the Slavs and the Celts, were born from the middle aged woman, more intelligent than the children of the old crone, but still inferior to the Norse peoples. At the very top were the Norse, who were born from the young woman, who were tall, whose shoulders were broad, and they were intelligent.

So you see, Adolf Hitler did not invent the idea of nordic supremacy; it existed among the Teutonic peoples of Europe, almost from before recorded history, possibly, almost since the last ice age. The cro magnon cave dwellers ultimately fathered three peoples in Europe; the Celts, the Norse, and the Slavs. If you do not descend from any of those three, and if your genes are not predominantly from any of those three then, in the strictest definition you're not white, meaning, the ancient Greeks weren't white, especially those in the south.

Now, northern Greece had a large population of Celts; the R1b gene, is found throughout the country, although, the various breeds of J are found more commonly throughout the country.

In the ancient world, the brand of conquest used by the Norse peoples was seen as "unethical." It was okay to exterminate a group of people, only if THEY attacked you first. If a group of people don't respect you, if they are extremely malicious, if they repeatedly and unjustifiably attack you, then, it was perfectly okay to simply kill them all. Throughout ancient history, this is how many peoples in the eastern hemisphere were rendered extinct.

You know the "mystery" of the Nabateans in Jordan? There is no "mystery" at all; King David of Israel exterminated them. Although the ancient world has given us a foundation, not to mention many ethical and moral laws, on a darker note, genocide was far more common, and what was seen as evil not the act itself but WHY people did it. The Norse peoples of Europe killed everyone in sight, simply because they felt that, being better than everyone else, they deserved life, while weak, stupid people, deserved death, and by "weak and stupid" of course it was meant non-Norse peoples.

The Norse were so dangerous, king Charlemagne of France, was forced to exterminate entire tribes of them. However he was not bloodthirsty; he basically gave them an ultimatum "conversion or the sword," and by conversion I mean, conversion to Christianity.

Why are the above pictures important?

Yemeni Jews may not be the handsomest people on this planet, but, while they have their problems, they're not built like cro magnon brutes like the ashkenazi Jew in the first link.

DNA tests will tell you, the guy in the first link is J1, while the guy in the second link is R1b; don't trust a word of it.

Lies are like air to the ashkenazi.

Answer 4

The main distinction in theory is that in the conservative movement, men and women are considered equals, whereas in the Orthodox tradition, men and women have different roles and purposes in life, and must not sit together in prayer.

In practice, there are many more differences.

Answer 5

Rabbinical Judaism and Orthodox Judaism are the same thing; they refer to religious Judaism. Orthodox Jews believe that the Torah must be fully observed. They keep the laws of Judaism as codified in the Shulchan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law), which lists the laws of the Torah and Talmud. Torah-study is seen as very important; and the modern world is seen as subservient to the Torah, not the other way around.

Other Jewish groups (Conservative, Reform) adapt or change the Torah-laws in contemporary life, to a greater or lesser degree.

Answer 6

Orthodox Jews believe that the Torah must be fully observed. They keep the laws of Judaism as codified in the Shulchan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law), which lists the laws of the Torah and Talmud. Torah-study is seen as very important; and the modern world is seen as subservient to the Torah, not the other way around.

Other Jewish groups (Conservative, Reform) adapt or change the Torah-laws in contemporary life, to a greater or lesser degree.

Answer 7

Orthodox Jews keep the laws of the Torah.