One of four major denominations of religious Judaism: Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist. Reform Judaism began in Germany in the early nineteenth-century and is the largest movement in America with over 1.5 million practitioners. Like Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism has a minority status in Israel. For more information, see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/The_Origins_of_Refor....  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/reform-judaism