HOW DO REFORM AND CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM DIFFER FROM ORTHODOX? Reform and Conservative have been modernizing movements within Judaism, versions that have moved away from traditional Orthodox. The Conservative branch has not gotten as far as away from Orthodox as Reform, and the latter has embraced humanism and liberalism—like Liberal Christianity. Reform (liberal) Jews forego much of the Orthodox beliefs and practices, they meet in temples instead of synagogues, and they spiritualize Orthodox doctrines, like those about the “coming” Messiah that Jews are still looking for because they do not believe Jesus fulfilled that role. Reform generally maintains a more inclusive attitude about the world’s assorted beliefs—it’s basically “Come one, come all!” They have caved in and given up on doctrines that go against the modern culture, no longer caring about much of the truth from God’s Word, and it is because the world’s new definition of “tolerance” has taken priority for them. Today, tolerance means accepting and even promoting the sinful and deviant practices of others;; it’s no longer “love the sinner but hate the sin.” Instead, “liberal tolerance” means there cannot be particular truths, so most everything is acceptable, including homosexuality, as well as the foundational occult practices of feminism. We in the Christian Church see that same attitude seeping in with Liberal Christianity—which is really Christianity in name only—so it is not Christianity. They deny the deity of God, His miracles, and the Virgin Birth of Jesus. Because these false churches are shiny on the outside, often meeting in large buildings with stained glass windows and other religious trappings, people think they must be Christian, but those places are empty on the inside, just unsound teachings with no guts—no substance. Reform Judaism and Liberal Christianity are both works-based systems that do not teach God’s biblical gospel as the way to salvation through Jesus alone. Conservative Judaism is a sort of intermediate level of the religion, a transitional version that has evolved into something between the older Orthodox and newer Reform. Conservative Judaism makes allowances for modern culture, while preserving much of Jewish tradition.