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The religious practices associated with the Jewish people are diverse, and became increasingly so following the dispersion of Jews from the Land of Israel. As Jews became a primarily diasporic people, their religions traditions diversified and some practices, including certain liturgies, became associated with specific locales. Some of these were codified into sets of practices, laws, and prayer rites associated with the Jews of certain regions (Central and/or Eastern Europe, Iberia, and the Near East/North Africa, broadly speaking).
In the 18th and 19th centuries (particularly in Europe), there was an upwelling Jewish religious movements such as Hasidism (and opposition to it), classical Reform Judaism, and others, leading to a proliferation of streams, sects, and denominations within the broader Rabbinic Jewish tradition, some of them in direct reaction to one another. Some of these include Reform Judaism, Haredi Judaism, Reconstructionism, and Conservative Judaism. (See under "religious movements, Jewish, in the twentieth century" in the Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture.)
Outside of the Rabbinic tradition, other Jewish religious traditions include those of Beta Israel (Ethiopian) Jews, and of Kara'im (followers of Karaite Judaism).