"A Jewish Rabbi came walking down the street..."

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Is there any other kind of rabbi? "D

"A Jewish Rabbi came walking down the street..."

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Is there any other kind of rabbi? "D

Well he was a Conservative Rabbi.  Isn't that like being Episcopalian (e.g. Catholic light)?

a Conservative Rabbi.  Isn't that like being Episcopalian (e.g. Catholic light)?

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You could loosely say the Orthodox would go to Saint Pat's, the Conservative to St. John the Divine, and the Reform to the Village Church in Greenwich Village.

The Jewish denominational differences are dogmatic but much more a matter of degree of observance. 613 commandments -- the Orthodox follow every one, the Conservative many, the Reform few.

This thread is sort of like the group of kids who left study hall to get baked behind the baseball fields.  You don't really hurt anybody and its all for shits and giggles but any way you slice it there's just something different about us.

I have to laugh because sometimes I feel like no one else on the forum comes in this thread, when I was in high school, we had a group of kids that belonged to a program called "Pontoon" basically it was a babysitting class for all the stoners and trouble makers. When you would walk by their classroom they were never studying, they were always sitting on their desks in groups laughing and talking or playing with lego's. They stayed to themselves and everyone else just ignored their antics, they were always the ones getting stoned outside the art building. Basically we are the JBF Pontoon Thread.

Reform is the least observant.

There used to be no denominations. Then there was a movement in the 19th century to "reform" the Jewish religion so as to update it vis-a-vis some of the newer freedoms Jews had as citizens of newly formed nations. But those reforms went too far by some groups' notions, so they made an "orthodox" denomination in response. But then THEY were too strict by yet other groups' notions, and they in turn called themselves "conservative," i.e., they would modernize everything possible but conserve what was essential. Some of the commandments, though, the Conservative did not consider essential, so that didn't play well with the Orthodox. Later on, in the 20th century, a sub-group came out called the Modern Orthodox who were still 100% observant but also extremely open to all forms of modern study, even scientific biblical criticism. And then, well, even more groups.

This "splintering" characterized the Ashkenazic Jews (those from North Europe). The Sephardim, like me (from the Mediterranean and Middle East), never splintered self-consciously into definitive separate groups.

Too much Jewy info...!

Somebody say something really gay -- quick!

Somebody say something really gay -- quick!

Paul Lynde.

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