Glossary

Purim spiels

A common festival practice on the Jewish holiday of Purim, Purim spiels are comic plays centered around the events of

an umbrella term used for people who do not identify as sexually straight or according to the gender binaries they

Rabbis are ordained Jewish religious leaders and teachers who have completed studies of key Jewish texts, the title of which

A highly successful and charismatic rabbi who preached in New York beginning in 1866. A Hungarian native, he had participated

the main form of Judaism practiced since the sixth century CE, based on the authority of the oral Torah (Talmud

The phrase racial democracy, when used in the context of Brazilian history and politics, refers to the theory that Brazil

a person’s racial assignment is the race ascribed to a person by a person, people, or society. The race ascribed

A political philosophy which places pragmatic concerns and realism over ideological and ethical considerations (sometimes used to denote sinister or

a movement with Judaism developed by Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983) as an offshoot of Conservative Judaism. For more see Reconstructing Judaism.

With roots in 19th-century Germany, Reform Judaism came into existence as many Jews living in ghettos attempted to adapt Judaism

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