Vent - Why so much Reform Bashing?
I don’t keep up with the online Jewish world very much but is it just me or is there a lot of Reform bashing? It really annoys me. I just saw someone claiming that Reform doesn’t expect anybody to do anything and that all it cares about is that we’re Democrats.
My Judaism is important to me even though I’m not Orthodox and I would say the same of every Reform Jew that I know. Why would we even bother if it didn’t mean anything to us?
What I see in Reform is people trying their best to live out Jewish values in a world where we’re a tiny minority.
Along with that, it really bugs me when people claim that we’re dying out. Who’s to say that all of those Orthodox children are going to stay Orthodox? History tells us that they won’t.