Modernity and the Enlightenment offered Jews in the 1700s the ability to leave the ghetto, to have rights and opportunities they had never had before, and to be safe from persecution. The American and French Revolutions transformed the world and the Jewish world. With those opportunities came changes and challenges, the challenge of assimilation, and changes to the Jewish community and to Judaism, which would set the course of Jewish history for the next 230 years until this very day.

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