There are three main denominations of Judaism. These denominations are Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox. Reform Judaism started to arise in America with the arrival of the German Jews. German Jews began to immigrate to the United States in large number in the 1840's. The German Jews could find better economic opportunities and more freedom in America. In December 1824,Isaac Harby, along with fifty other Jews from Charleston, spoke to leaders of their temple and demanded to see a change in the way Shabbat services were carried out in their synagogue. In the 1820's, Isaac Harby became concerned with anti-Semitism, and efforts from Protestants to convert American Jews. Isaac Harby wanted himself and his fellow Charleston Jews to defend their religion, although he felt that they knew too little about their own religion to do so. To understand Judaism better, Harby wanted to "Americanize" the...