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Jewish religious movements, sometimes called "denominations", include diverse groups within Judaism which have developed among Jews from ancient times. Samaritans are also considered ethnic Jews by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, although they are frequently classified by experts as a sister Hebrew people, who practice a separate branch of Israelite religion.
Jewish political movements refer to the organized efforts of Jews to build their own political parties or otherwise represent their interest in politics outside the Jewish community. From the time of the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans to the foundation of Israel , the Jewish people had no sovereign territory and were largely denied equal ...
Pages in category "Jewish movements" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Jewish political movements;
The Conservative movement, however, has clashed with Orthodoxy over its refusal to recognize the Conservative and Reform movements as legitimate, and in February 1997, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, claimed that Orthodox organizations in Israel politically discriminate against non-Orthodox Jews, and ...
Jewish Autonomism, seeking an ethnic-cultural autonomy for the Jews of Eastern Europe; Yiddishism, some proponents of which regarded Yiddish-speakers as a national group Bundism, which combined Yiddishist Autonomism with socialism; Soviet Yiddishism, promoting Yiddish-speakers as a national group in the USSR with its own Jewish Autonomous Oblast
In Eastern Europe the General Jewish Labour Bund called for Jewish autonomy within Eastern Europe and promoted Yiddish as the Jewish national language. Like the Zionist movement, the Bund was founded in 1897 and it was one of the largest socialist movements in Europe; however, it did not grow as fast as Zionism.
A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against the prestigious University of California, Los Angeles, saying the school cannot allow Jewish students to be barred from accessing ...
In the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, when there was a large Jewish population in Europe, some Jews favored various forms of liberalism, and saw them as connected with Jewish principles. Some Jews allied themselves with a range of Jewish political movements.