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32 Cards in this Set
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Parnaz
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President- picks both officers and next president
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Chatan Torah
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1st assistant/officer
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Chatan Bereshit
חטן ברשית |
2nd assistant/officer
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Mosses Gomez
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1st ever Parnaz 1728-29 שירת ישראל
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Daniel Gomez
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1st ever chatan torah 1728-29 שירת ישראל
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Binjamin Mendez Pacheco
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1st ever chatan bereshit 1728-29 שירת ישראל
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Shamaz
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keeps order during services
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Year of the Pittsburgh Platform
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1885
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Thomas Tweed
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contemporary US religious historian- thought it was dumb that most people focused on puritan/protestant white people and on the US
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Thomas Tweed's definition of religion
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meaning and power
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Cultural Processes
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change over time, structure, ritual
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meaning
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shared ideas and beliefs
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power
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exclusivity and relationship between groups
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Clifford Geertz
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famous anthropoligist who said religion is something one wants to do because it makes sense
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Catherine Bell
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Ritual studies - tradition builds identity btwn groups and whoever is in charge of tradition gains power/authority (moralism-precedents and flexible level of delegated authority) ritual just the act not the meaning
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Arnold Eisen
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what are the people doing on sukkot
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Shearith Israel
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NE mother congregation later the porteguese syngagoe
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Mikveh Israel
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Philidelphia Jewish Society (1768)
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Jeffery Gurrock
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keep laws as strictly as possible = orthodoxy
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Corporate Status
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Jews wherever they are interact with the gov. as a whole single community
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Asser Levy
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only Jew living in NY - 2 of everything= kashrut - but he was all alone no minyan etc.
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Kaufman Kohler
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1843-1926 - born in Bavaria into an Orthodox bckgrnd - studied secular subjects and then came to the reform movement in Germany - most radical in terms of his beliefs - rabbi in Detroit then Temple Sinai in Chicago and then in NY- president of Hebrew Union College in 1903 after WIse died
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nomos
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law
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Landsmanscheaft
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community centers
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Isaac Mayer Wise
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Pres. of Hebrew Union COllege
-promoted moderate level of reform--said that modified rabbinic law was not binding but that biblical law is central to Judaism Rejected progressive revelation (Einhorn) |
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Abraham RIce
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rejected the idea of American Judaism didnt even speak english
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Morris Raphael
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emphasized an "enlightened" orthodoxy- allows for changes in the conduct of rituals- more order in services less chaos
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Isaac Mayer-Wise
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started the Hebrew Union College- moderate model of reform judaism - rabbinic law not binding but written law is- rejected progressive revelation- in 1850 was fired from his job in Albany after getting in a fist fight with the president of the shul
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David Einhorn
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interested in the 10 commandments, rejected 613 mitzvot, but 10 commandments applied to all of humanity
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Abraham Rice
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Rejects American Judaism entirely/the idea that Jews can live in America. He only speaks Yiddish.
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Morris Raphael
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emphasized "enlightened" orthodoxy-increase decorum within synagogue-s/as starting a time when mourner's kaddish is said
-made services more orderly/less chaotic |
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Einhorn
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Super reform-interested only in 10 commandments-rejected 613 rabbinical commandments
progressive revelation |
