Original sentence: " Despite the efforts of several of these movements to expand their membership in Israel and achieve official recognition by the government, non-Orthodox movements have remained largely a feature of Judaism in the diaspora.However they differ in their approach to such texts.Modern Orthodox, traditional Mizrahi Jews, and others.Several denominations have developed within Judaism, especially among Ashkenazi Jews living in anglophone countries.Some people reject the term denomination as a label for different groups and ideologies within Judaism, arguing that the notion of denomination has a specifically Christian resonance that does not translate easily into the Jewish context.The Jewish community in these countries is divided into distinct religious denominations, often called "branches" or "movements.The movements share a recognition that the Torah and other Jewish spiritual writings such as Tanakh and Talmud are central to Jewish experience.The three largest denominations, known in in the United States as Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform, originated in the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) and its aftermath, and were shaped by the experience of Jewish immigration to the United States.This article uses the terms interchangeably, without purporting to affirm the validity of one term over another
Edited sentence: Despite the efforts of several of these movements to expand their membership in Israel and achieve official recognition by the government, non-Orthodox movements have remained largely a feature of Judaism in the diaspora.However, they differ in their approach to such texts.Orthodox, traditional Mizrahi Jews, and others.Several so-called denominations have developed claiming to be part of Judaism, especially among Ashkenazi Jews living in anglophone countries.Some people reject the term denomination as a label for different groups and ideologies within Judaism, arguing that the notion of denomination has a specifically Christian resonance that does not translate into the Jewish context.The Jewish community in these countries is divided into distinct religious denominations, called by some called "branches" or "movements," but called by others deviations from true Judaism.The movements appear to share a certain degree of recognition that the Torah, primarily in the form of the Tanakh and Talmud, are central to Jewish experience.The two largest non-Orthodox denominations, known in in the United States as Conservative, and Reform, originated in the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) and its aftermath, rejecting many of the tenets of Orthodox Judaism, and were shaped by the experience of Jewish immigration to the United States.This article uses the terms interchangeably, and attempts not to purport to affirm the validity of one term over another