Many Reformed Jews like their food to be kosher but don't insist on it. Many Reformed synagogues welcome Gentile visitors.

Furthermore, the analogy of the nineteenth-century movements of assimilation among the Jews - with the establishment of reformed synagogues in the Protestant style - creates a presumption of truth in this version.

He was ordained by the Hungarian rabbi Aaron Chorin, an early supporter of religious reform, and served for two years teaching and giving sermons in the Beer reformed synagogue in Berlin.

The staff and lay leadership of the UAHC Greater NY Council of Reformed Synagogues mourn with profound sorrow the loss of our beloved friend and teacher following a courageous battle with cancer.

Before my parents' death, they had urged me, pleaded with me to go to Sunday school at our reformed synagogue, to attend the Saturday morning services, to study the lore, that I might be confirmed into the religion of my fathers.

There were plenty of reasons to travel to Roulette in Downtown Brooklyn on Friday evening for the premiere of Judith Berkson’s chamber opera, “The Vienna Rite,” about Salomon Sulzer, the 19th-century Austrian cantor who reformed synagogue music and befriended Schubert.

To the Editor: Re "Render Unto Caesar," Anthony Lewis's Dec. 26 column about the split between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews in Israel: When I was growing up in a reformed synagogue, Zionism was represented in a secular fashion, as a love for the land.