Now, Reform congregations across the country are wrestling with how to respond.

This was before the secession which led to the establishment of a Reform congregation in that city.

With a membership of 100 families, the Reform congregation dedicated its first synagogue building in 1889.

Reform congregations, even not in Israel, may do likewise.

Temple Israel is among the largest Reform congregations in the country.

The Reform congregation was founded in 1876, with the current building dedicated November 26, 1899.

This invocation is now used by many Reform congregations.

They set up Reform congregations, and generally gave a little support to Zionism down to the 1940s.

By 1888, disagreements among congregants over the synagogue's direction led some members to leave and form a Reform congregation.

There had been short-lived efforts to establish Reform congregations as early as the 1890s.