21.   The bill is intended to counter legal challenges by the small Conservative and Reform movements.

22.   The cry for change has been voiced the loudest by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, head of the Reform movement, the largest denomination of American Jews.

23.   The Reform movement is the largest stream of Judaism in the United States, but in Israel it has attracted only a few thousand followers.

24.   The Reform movement also has a more egalitarian approach to ritual, even inventing new rituals such as baby naming ceremonies for girls.

25.   The Reform movement, the largest in American Judaism, has taken the lead on liberalizing both ritual and political practices.

26.   The Supreme Court decision also drew condemnation from religious leaders in the Episcopal Church and the Reform Jewish movement.

27.   There are many other expressions of faith by the modern Orthodox, the traditional, the Conservative and the Reform movements.

28.   While Orthodox Jews and liberal Reform movement adherents sometimes differ as to the morality of abortion, there is unusual agreement about the value of embryonic stem cell research.

29.   With the Reform movement, leaders of the rabbinical and synagogue organizations became so concerned they established a task force to examine the issue.

30.   Women rabbis led the campaign for same-sex ceremonies in Reform movement synagogues.