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Jewish 'Denominations'; Class; and Close Readings

Jonathan D. Sarna, professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University and author of American Judaism: A History (Yale University Press, 2004):

For decades, Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Orthodox Judaism insisted that they were "wings" or "streams" of Judaism -- Jewish religious "movements." Suddenly, in recent years, they have...

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