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Title	Union of American Hebrew Congregations Banquet Menu
Subject	Religion in Ohio Universities and colleges Jewish religious education
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	On July 11, 1883, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations held a banquet in Cincinnati to honor the first ordination class of Hebrew Union College. Some believe that the dinner, the menu for which included non-kosher food, was one of the events that precipitated a split between Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism. After the split, this graduation banquet menu became known as "Trefa" or forbidden. The four-page menu measures 7.6 by 10.6 inches (19.3 by 26.92 cm). Reform Judaism, which began in Cincinnati under the leadership of Isaac Mayer Wise in the second half of the nineteenth century, was a modernizing movement to adapt Judaism to American culture. The emphasis in Reform was on the ethical message of Judaism; for many years ritual practice was not emphasized. In contrast, Conservative Judaism holds that Jewish law is central to Jewish life. It also brings to tradition a historical consciousness and awareness of how Judaism has changed in response to circumstances, making future change possible. Modern Orthodox Judaism adheres to traditional Jewish faith, such as belief in the divine origins of the Torah and traditional Jewish ritual practices, and attempts to synthesize Jewish tradition with modern culture and ideas. Rabbi Isaac Wise founded the Union of American Hebrew Congregations founded in 1873 in Cincinnati, which at the time had one of the largest Jewish populations in the United States. Two years later, Wise established Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, the first Jewish institution of higher learning in the nation. The college, now called Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, has branches in Los Angeles, New York, and Jerusalem.
Date of Original	July 11, 1883
Source	Published material Rare documents file
Submitting Institution	Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Type	Text

Title	Om741_916676_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om741_916676_001.tif
Image Height	3835
Image Width	2672
File Size	2458.957 KB
Full Text	\ MUSIC BY CURRIER'S ORCHESTRA. C. M. Currier, Conductor. u-r

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