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American Jewish History "America and the Jews are a love story" 3 waves of immigration: Sephardic, German, Eastern Europe. **immigration worksheet** The story of immigration: Why did Jews come to America? Anti semitism leads to persecution and lack of job opportunities so people get up and leave Russia and Poland etc. Why did immigrants succeed and Americanize so quickly? 1. Reform Judaism helped them Americanize Because they didn't care to keep their Jewish identity as much. 2. "Col Israel Aravim ze la zeh" - we help each other. 3. Ashamed of the new Jews coming in from Poland and Germany. (Ostjuden) organizations that helped • HIAS- (human immigrant aid society) Jews help other Jews, found them places to live etc. • • • • educational alliance Labor movement Yiddish theater Yiddish press "We are paupers with a middle class mindset" Bintel brief- advice column for the Jews in the lower east side. (Worksheet) Why is it that Jews lose themselves in America? 1. Reform- most German Jews are reform (reject Halacha). Trefa banquet: a banquet for a Jewish rabbinic seminary and the caterer only fed them non kosher food. Some rabbis were so disgusted that they broke away from the reform movement and created conservative movement. 2. Conservative- Jewish theological seminary. (JTS) don't believe Torah is from the shamayim but don't believe that we shouldn't follow any halachot. Rabbi Francal- "Judaism is the religion of the Jews" meaning WE made Judaism, god is missing. He believes Torah and Halacha is holy because WE all follow it we keep the mitzvot going from out grandparents (not that god commanded us to do the mitzvot) today they are vanishing. Problem: so what happens when we believe something can be changed can we change it? If majority people want to change it then yes. Ex: we all wanna go to shule on Shabbat but we live too far so can we drive to shule? The answer was yes. So many rabbis got mad and left the movement. Another ex: let female rabbis. So more rabbis left. extremely problamatic. Went from the greatest movement to it being almost gone. Solomon shechter: head of JTS. 3. Orthodox: Isaac Leeser: unknown hero. Lived in Philly. published a sidur and tried to keep religion alive. Isaac Mayer Wise- radical reform rabbi of the 19th century. 4. Reconstructionism:" we are about a civilization" (more to the left then reform)