Editing Jacob Ettlinger (section)

===Clashes with the Reform movement===
Ettlinger became one of the strongest opponents of the early [[Reform Judaism]] movement, and headed a protest of 173 rabbis against the [[Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick|Brunswick Conference]] of 1844. In the following year he established the first organ of [[Orthodox Judaism]], ''Der treue Zionswächter, Organ zur Wahrung der Interessen des gesetzestreuen Judenthums'' with a [[Hebrew language]] supplement, ''Shomer Tziyon ha-Ne'eman'', edited by [[S. J. Enoch]].

He was a firm defender of Orthodox tradition. A typical story is reported by [[Abraham Geiger]], who formed Ettlinger's acquaintance as a student in 1829. At a school examination a teacher said that Joseph's brothers had acted in an unbrotherly fashion, whereupon Ettlinger rebuked him indignantly for speaking ill of the Twelve [[Tribes of Israel]].