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Note that claims of this nature have been commonplace within Orthodox Judaism since the first " reforms " of Samson Raphael Hirsch and Azriel Hildesheimer.

Thus, in Europe of the early 19th century, all of Judaism that differed from the strictest forms present at the time was called " Reform ".

Then, as now, Modern Orthodoxy took pains to distance its " reforms ", which were consistent with the Shulkhan Arukh and poskim, from those of the Reform movement ( and the Conservative movement ), which were not.