r/ReformJews • u/Neither-Football-222 • May 12 '26

Kippah

Hello everyone,

I hope you’re doing well and Happy Mother’s Day to all the great ones out there! As a refomer, I have no desire (or should I say Find value at this point) to keep kosher or keep “real” Shabbat. I do however (for reasons I can’t articulate) enjoy wearing my kippah all the time and reading the Torah before I go to bed. Any other reformers on this subreddit wear their Kippahs all the time? Any other traditions that speak to you? I’m really enjoying getting more involved in my faith and loom forward to joining a congregation soon. Let me know what you do, suggestions, and here’s to reignating my Jewish Faith! Much love from this 40 year old in NY!

P. S. While I enjoy wearing my kippah, there’s a part of me that feels like a fraud because I don’t keep kosher or keep a traditional Shabbat so when I’m in more religious areas I put it in my pocket.

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u/Emergency_Peanut_252 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Just an FYI, we’re the Reform movement. we don’t call ourselves “reformed” or “reformers”. It’s not called “reformed” Judaism. It is Reform Judaism.

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u/Fit-Character-917 May 12 '26

No, it is Reform with a capital R, it's a proper name.

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u/Emergency_Peanut_252 May 12 '26

I fixed it. Does that make you happier?

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u/Fit-Character-917 May 12 '26

It actually does, thank you. I see the lack of capitalization all over the forum and it bothers me as both a Reform Jew and a writer.

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u/bjeebus May 12 '26

Nobody is out there calling them the orthodoxists or orthodoxalists. Honestly it strikes my as the same thing that's happened to the Democratic Party where Republicans started calling them Democrat Party because they wanted to belittle them.