Reform Judaism began as a response to the Enlightenment in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The Jewish people had to determine how to best combine the new ideologies with their own religious practices. The Jewish people suddenly had a new, non-Jewish world from which they could belong. Some began to lose interest in religion. The Reform Judaism movement was created to adapt to these changes in society. The fundamental belief of the movement was that religious change is good (Kaplan 183). Platforms were created to define the boundaries of Reform Judaism and show how the Reform movement is different from the traditional form of Judaism (Meyer & Plaut 195). The Reform movement has undergone many significant changes in their ideologies, including Israel and Halacha. These changes show the central idea of ​​adapting Judaism to social environments but at the same time always keeping the Jewish community united. These changes were made from 1885 to 1999 with the Pittsburgh Platform, the Columbus Principles, and the Declaration of Principles. The position on Zionism and Israel shows one of the major changes that Reform Judaism has undergone. In the Pittsburgh Platform, written in 1885, we get our first glimpse into what the goals of the reform movement were. The Pittsburgh Platform says the movement does not support the idea of ​​a Jewish homeland. The reform movement has given up on the idea of ​​returning to Israel and having a Jewish homeland. “We no longer consider ourselves a nation, but a religious community, and therefore we do not even expect a return to Palestine…” (Roiter, Urowitz, Zeliger 131). This passage conveys the idea that a Jewish state is no longer necessary because the...... half of the document ......Conference of American Rabbis is not considered. "A Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism." Proceedings of the Central Conference of the 1999 Pittsburgh Convention of American Rabbis. A Declaration of Principles for Reform Judaism - CCAR. Network. January 14, 2014. "The Pittsburgh Platform." Mikr'a Le' Histori'ya Modern Modern Jewish History. Trans.Leila Roiter. Comp. Rachel Urowitz and Shira Zeliger. Np: np, nd 130-32. Print.Meyer, Michael A. and W. Gunther Plaut. The Reform Judaism Reader: North American Documents. New York, NY: UAHC, 2001. Print.Kaplan, Dana Evan. "Reform Judaism". Jewish Encyclopedia. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. vol. 17. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 165-83. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Network. January 14. 2014. .