Word: reform
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...letter to President Bok, the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) said the committee would try to "make sure that the issue of the AP&L power plant does not become a dead issue until Harvard has responded adequately to ACORN's requests...
Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), an Arkansas organizing group, has been soliciting Harvard's help for the past month in assuring that the plant will not pollute the Arkansas air, water and crops...
Bennett said he hoped the recommendations of the conference would be as well received as those of last year's conference (which dealt with penal reform). The federal government granted the foundation $12,000 to continue research on the subject...
Such changes have steadily narrowed the ceremonial gulf between Reform and Conservative Jews. An official union is unlikely, in part because the Conservatives insist on a far stricter adherence to rabbinic law. But in some areas the two groups have lately started merging their religious school facilities...
...form of pop nostalgia or a genuine yearning for an older, more stable faith is still a matter of debate. Indeed, the renewal of interest in Jewish heritage and customs does not seem to be accompanied by any sweeping resurgence of faith in God. A survey conducted for Reform rabbis last year showed that 37% of Reform youth regarded themselves either as agnostics or atheists. Yet Rabbi Schindler, who calls himself a "cockeyed optimist," feels the return to tradition is a harbinger of a return to a more spiritual faith. "There was a time in Reform when...