Patrilineal Dissent
Author(s)
Donald A. Tam
Publication Name
Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas
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CLAL: the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
Abstract
The author, a Reform rabbi who originally voted in favor of the Reform Movement's decision in 1983 to accept patrilineal descent (along with a commitment to raise the child Jewish) as an acceptable basis for Jewish identity, writes that the decision has had many negative unforeseen consequences. Judaism should not be distilled into sociology only, he writes, and the chance of a real schism in the Jewish world is too high a risk to take.
Editor
Cardin, Nina Beth
Geographic Coverage
United States
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