- In 1885, eighteen rabbis met in Pittsburgh and adopted
the platform
which would define Reform Judaism for the next half-century. (page 10)
- A second Reform platform, the Columbus Platform, was adopted by the
Central Conference of American Rabbis in Columbus, OH in 1937.
- A third set of guidelines,
the Centenary Perspective, appeared in
1976 on the occasion of the centenary of the CCAR.
- According to Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten, the bagel is first
mentioned in the community regulations of Krakow, Poland in 1610. The
rules stipulated that women in childbirth should be given a gift of
bagels." (page 34)
- 150,000. (page 44)
- 85,000 volumes (page 46)
- 7,000 youngsters attended camp, experiencing song sessions, Shabbat
celebrations, worship, study, biking, skating, hiking, alpine tower
climbing, swimming, sailing, video production, photography, and much
more. (page 56)
- 11 UAHC camps throughout North America (page 56)
- 500,000 newcomers as well as affiliated Jews "flocked to Shabbat
dinner and services at 626 congregations across the US and Canada to
participate in Shabbat Across America." (page 58)
- The turn of the 3rd century C.E. According to Back to the
Sources author Barry Holtz, "In the Galilee, and increasingly in
Babylonia as well, groups of rabbis and their disciples would gather to
study its tractates, clarify their meaning, and apply their
instructions to situations arising in their own lives. These study
groups, which apparently began as informal arrangements meeting in
people's homes, are the ancestors of the academies of Talmudic study
(yeshivot) that are still the centers of rabbinic training today."
(page 62)
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