Orthodox
Judaism was established in mid-19th-century central Europe in reaction to the
radical changes to tradition by Reform Judaism. The rapid spread of the haskalah, or Jewish enlightenment in western Europe, followed by the Reform movement's great success, generated the deeply conservative and separationist ideology that came to be Orthodox Judaism. Orthodoxy has evolved in reaction to a wide range of challenges and changing conditions in the modern world.
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