Variants in Judaism
-It is two or more people or things that have slight differences in opinions. The three major variants or streams in Judaism are Conservative, Orthodox, and Reform (Liberal or progressive).
Orthodox-
1. Traditional forms of worship in the Hebrew language.
2. The Orthodox view is that the Biblical law may be developed and interpreted only by processes of reasoning which maintain respect for its Divine origin.
3. The oldest synagogue in Sydney is the Great Synagogue in Elizabeth Street.
4. Synagogues are established by groups of Jews who raise their own funds and construct their own buildings.
5. The congregation usually elects a voluntary board of management, which employs, rabbis and other officials.
Conservative-
1. Conservative Judaism fosters the practice of traditional Judaism while embracing modernity.
2. Developed during the twentieth century in the United States.
3. It comes midway between Orthodoxy and Reform, intellectually liberal in matters of belief, but conservative in matters of religious practice.
4. The Conservative service follows the traditional liturgy, and it is mainly in Hebrew and similar to Orthodox services.
5. The movement believes that God's will is made known to humanity through revelation.
Progressive-
1. A new element entered the Jewish world in the early nineteenth century
2. The Progressive concept originated with the emancipation of the Jews of the various German states.
3. Granted equal rights and released from the ghettos to which they had been confined for centuries, Jews sought full acceptance in the German cultural milieu to which they had finally been admitted.
4. European Liberal Judaism soon spread to North America where it became more radical and less traditional.
5. Many of the Jews from central Europe who migrated to North America in the 1850s were political liberals who were eager to cast off the shadows of reactionary Europe.
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