[justiceseeker93]

Reform Judaism came into being during the 1800's after centuries of pogroms ("small" holocausts) in various Jewish communities in Europe.

No, there was actually little or no connection between the origin of Reform Judaism and pogroms. Pogroms were a phenomenon of Eastern Europe, most specifically the czarist empire. Reform Judaism, on the other hand, was born in Germany in the early 1800s, where Jews were more upwardly mobile and enjoyed more civil liberties than in anywhere else in Europe at the time.

When Reform Judaism translocated to the United States later in the 19th century, its base was predominantly Jews of recent German origin. Those Jews were not far left, for the most part, and their rabbinate was no where near as inane in supporting leftist causes as is today's Reform rabbinate. It is the latter that has had a major role in miseducating American Jews about history (both Jewish and American) and current events. When so many of today's American Jews are miseducated and brainwashed by Reform institutions and/or public schools, it's no wonder that they are more than willing to lead the cheers for self-destructive leftist politics and policies.

As for "social justice," look out whenever you hear anyone use that vacuous term. "Social Justice" inevitably means NO justice!

[dalight]

When Reform Judaism translocated to the United States later in the 19th century, its base was predominantly Jews of recent German origin. Those Jews were not far left, for the most part, and their rabbinate was no where near as inane in supporting leftist causes as is today's Reform rabbinate. It is the latter that has had a major role in miseducating American Jews about history (both Jewish and American) and current events. When so many of today's American Jews are miseducated and brainwashed by Reform institutions and/or public schools, it's no wonder that they are more than willing to lead the cheers for self-destructive leftist politics and policies.

Not bad. Not bad at all. Not completely accurate, but at least heading in the right direction.

[rmlew]

Quite true. Reform Judaism is born of liberalism and a desire to assimilate. The result of the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the later wars in Poland that killed perhaps as many as half of the 200,000 Polish-Lithuanian Jews was a breakdown of Traditional Orthodoxy and a rise of mystical ones. It gave us the Hasidic movement as well as a swell of disorganized Messianic zeal that led to widespread acceptance of Shabatai Zvi and Jacob Frank. Reform Judaism is the opposite of this.