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Alternative Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (323 words) |
 | Alternative Judaism refers to some groups of people who, while identifying as Jews in some fashion, nevertheless do not view themselves as conforming to Judaism as practiced by most Jews. |
| Alternative forms of "Judaism" are nothing new in Jewish history, and have appeared in the past in such forms as the Sabbateans and Frankists which fell outside the common Orthodox/Non-Orthodox (Reform/Conservative/Reconstructionist) classification of the four major streams of today's recognized Jewish denominations. |
| Messianic Judaism, a number of organizations (as well as unaffiliated individuals) who are religiously Christian (often much of the membership in such organizations is not actually Jewish). |
| Jewish denominations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1624 words) |
| The first evidence of this great dogmatic schism was the development of the Reform Judaism movement, rejected "ethnic Judaism" and preferred to regard Judaism as a religion rather than an ethnicity or a culture. |
| Hasidic Judaism eventually became the way of life for many Jews in Europe; it came to the United States during the large waves of Jewish emigration in the 1880s. |
| Some of the reasons for the rejection of Hasidic Judaism were the overwhelming exuberance of Hasidic worship; their untraditional ascriptions of infallibility and alleged miracle-working to their leaders, and the concern that it might become a messianic sect. |
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