11.   In assuming the chairmanship of the coalition of Jewish organizations, he was widely assumed to be a dove, given his leadership of the more liberal Reform movement.

12.   In the Reform movement, women are a sizable majority of trainees.

13.   Isaac Mayer Wise, an immigrant from Germany, brought with him to his first pulpit the ideas that were shaping the Reform movement in his native land.

14.   Last month, the Reform movement took another step toward traditional practice.

15.   Nevertheless, the resolution fits within a recent pattern within the Reform movement.

16.   Nonetheless, American Jews have largely supported the Reform movement.

17.   Q. Is the Reform movement actively encouraging conversion?

18.   Q. Does this return to tradition mean the Reform movement is becoming less Reform?

19.   Reform movements brought women out of the home and into the public sphere, and the fierce debate over slavery prompted larger questions about equality.

20.   That such a thing would be in the works, she said, is a sign of the times within the Reform movement.