This, despite the fact that Jeff Wasserstein, a former law clerk for Alito and a self-described liberal Democrat, argued in favor of Alito's nomination at the conference. Here's the bullet points of the resolution:
Condemning the Alito nomination:
"Judge Alito’s elevation to the Supreme Court “would threaten protection of the most fundamental rights which our Movement supports including, but not limited to, reproductive freedom, the separation between church and state, protection of civil rights and civil liberties, and protection of the environment;”
"On choice, women’s rights, civil rights, and the scope of federal power particularly as it relates to civil rights and environmental protection, Judge Alito’s nomination “has engendered a national debate on one or more issues of core concern to the Reform Movement so that the outcome of the nomination is likely to be perceived as a referendum on that issue and will have significant implications beyond the individual nomination;”
Oy Vay...such a motley crew of extremists.
-MZ
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From my understanding, Reform Judaism is so liberal precisely because it originally aimed to inject more secularism into Judaism.
The problem it has had, though, is that it brought in so much secularism that it ended up watering down much of traditional Judaism to a point where it lost its meaning for many people.
Despite these recent events in the news, many Reform congregations have actually started to realize these problems and in fact have become much more traditional in recent years.
If this continues, perhaps the Reform movement's politics will become more traditional as well.
The reform movement thinks the government is the Czar and the Christians are the Inquisition.
I'm embarrassed that I belong to a Reform Synagogue. They make a big deal of being "inclusive," but not if you have political opinions that differ from the liberal norm. We are sometimes made to feel like pariahs for our conservative politics and outspoken support of Israel.
I know what you are going through, Skiwidow. I belonged to Reform congregations most of my life until I bolted for modern orthodoxy a few years ago. Its intolerant liberalism was just unbearable.
Why do you attack intolerance?
That is so divisive...
...Resistance is futile
Wow MZ, I never would have thought you grew up Reform.
I grew up attending a Conservative synagogue, though now I primarily go to a modern Orthodox one.
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