6th Grade at the Braun Religious School: September 2025

TRUE OR FALSE (MOVEMENTS IN AMERICA)

1. Every movement in American Judaism has its own siddurim- usually more than one.

2. The first synagogues built in America were what would now be called Orthodox.

3. Orthodox Jews are no more likely to come to synagogue on Shabbat just to pray than jews in other movements.

4. Not all Orthodox Jews have a Bat Mitzvah celebration for their daughters.

5. Conservative Judaism was the first to ordain women as rabbis, then Reform.

6. It’s actually Reformed Judaism. People keep leaving off the “-ed.”

7. Conservative Judaism was about Conserving our freedoms in comparison to Orthodoxy .

8. Orthodoxy is unified in how it forbids religious leadership roles for women.

9. World-wide, there are about two dozen Yeshivot for Conservative adults to study Torah in, but several hundred Orthodox Yeshivot.

10. Humanist Judaism is a branch of Judaism where people do not believe in God but still find meaning participating in Jewish rituals.

11. There is only one Conservative Movement, but many flavors of Orthodoxy.

12. Conservative and Reform Judaism both say you only need to observe the ritual mitzvot you find meaningful.

13. Orthodoxy was the first movement to ordain its own Rabbis in America.

14. Conservative Judaism was the first to fully support modern Zionism.

15. Reconstructionist Judaism is an offshoot of Conservative Judaism.

16. Orthodox Judaism is growing the fastest growing movement in the USA, but Reform is the largest.

17. Reform Jews are twice as likely as Conservative Jews to have a Jewish education of some kind past Bnei Mitzvah.

18. In Israel, the Reform and Conservative movements are teeny-tiny.

19. Reform Jews are the least religious Jews in America.

20. Orthodox Jews are only 5% to 10% more likely to be able to read and pray in Hebrew compared to Reform and Conservative.

6th Grade at the Braun Religious School