Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Progressive Judaism/Article survey

General comments abut arrangement of material
Material is allocated to articles in a manner that obscures and distorts the relationship between different movements that consider themselves progressive.


 * Reform Judaism - article seems to have a confused identity. It tries simultaneously to cover (a) German reform movement pre 1900 (b) US reform movement (c) the UK reform movement (d) the Israeli progressive movement
 * Liberal Judaism - conflates the UK organization with the historic UK movement and ignores other organations that have historically been called liberal judaism - most notably the German Liberal movement.
 * Progressive Judaism - this article and any article or category with the term "progressive Judaism" or "progressive Jewish" in its title is being threatened with deletion by a well established and respected editor (as of October 26, 2007). Please see WikiProject Judaism for more information.

Worldwide movement and regional variations

 * worldwide commonalities - covered by Progressive Judaism but article is a stub
 * USA - covered by Reform Judaism
 * UK - coverage split between a section of Reform Judaism, the article on Liberal Judaism,
 * Israel - covered by section of Reform Judaism
 * Germany - material on early german movement covered by Reform Judaism, modern German movement has no coverage
 * rest of Europe - no coverage
 * Pacific Rim - no coverage
 * South America - no coverage

Tikkun Olam

 * Tikkun Olam - has one very short paragraph describing non-Orthodox involvement in Tikkun Olam. None of the following is described:
 * theology: the progressive position is reduced to the politication of tikkun olam. There is nothing about the textual or jewish rational underlying the progressive movements reasons for viewing social action as a form of tikkun olam.
 * progressive interpretation of text and halakhah in light of the obligation to tikkun olam: nothing
 * mitzvah projects: Nothing about the US Reform movement's involvement in 19th century fight for labor laws, nothing about the progressive movement involvement in the US Civil rights movement.  Nothing about the RAC or any other current social action  initiatives. In Israel, nothing about IRAC, Rabbis for human rights, or any other Israeli social justice initiative. In UK - same thing.
 * Mitzvah - no material on the progressive understanding of mitzvah
 * Mitzvah ben adam l'havero - no article, no mention even in Mizvah article
 * Tzedakah - minimalist, no information on modern jewish thought, only orthodox practice is described
 * Chesed - reduced to its kabalistic significant
 * G'milut hasadim - no article

Organizations

 * Religious Action Center - stub article
 * Israel Religious Action Center - stub article

Progressive biographies
Significant material on modern thinkers, authors, and muscians within the progressive movement is missing from Wikipedia even though they fit the notability criteria specified in WP:BIO:


 * Eugene B. Borowitz
 * Norman J Cohen
 * David Ellenson - exists but makes no mention of his academic achievements, nor his presidency of HUC
 * Emil Fackenheim - poorly maintained, has a lot of unrelated material inserted in
 * Alfred Gottschalk (Rabbi) - this is a disambiguation page that mentions that someone by this name is an academic. No article exists for the academic.
 * Nelson Glueck - association with HUC mentioned only as an aside. No mention of his role in the development of Israeli progressive Judaism
 * Richard Hirsch
 * Lawrence A. Hoffman
 * Michael Klein - many bios, but Michael Klien of HUC and geniza expertise is not one of them
 * Lawrence Kushner
 * Michael Meyer
 * Gunther Plaut - a stub article that contains no analysis of his thought
 * Uri Regev
 * Samuel Sandmel
 * David Saperstein - stub article that contains no analysis of his actual work or its connection to the ethical vision of progressive judaism.
 * Marc Saperstein
 * Ezra Spicehandler
 * Paul Steinberg
 * Marc Washofsky
 * Eric Yoffe
 * Moshe Zemer

Key books
Wikipedia allows synopsis of notable books (see WP:BK - almost no books of significance to the progressive movement have synopsis on wikipedia.