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Identity in modern sociocultural discourse is one of the most actual issues that affects at epistemological, cultural and social processes. Variability, pluralism and the changing nature of the conditions in which the individual acts create certain models for choice. The problem of selfdetermination of an individual in such ambiguous discourse is put forward on one of the first plans of philosophical themes of the present day. The analysis of identity allows defining and explaining the changes in the social and personal aspects of self-determination of a person. Religion is the main factor of the individual's identity, which creates the feeling that the world really is what it seems. Representatives of a religious minority have an additional element of solidarity based on isolation from representatives of the titular denomination of a certain region. In this article, an attempt has been made to comprehend the mechanisms for constructing the identity of representatives of progressive Judaism in Russia (on the example of the community of Le-dor Va-dor in Moscow). Analysis of the design of the identity of representatives of progressive Judaism allows us to identify the most significant constants in the ways of identifying a person in a multi-confessional modern society. The mere fact of the existence in Russia of progressive Judaism gives rise to the formation of specifically separate relationships between representatives of different currents of Judaism. In the religious space of the city of Moscow, the progressive community of Judaism occupies a significant place among the Jewish population, which, due to the processes of globalization, increasingly turns to religion as a factor of referring itself to a certain community. The strategy of building an identity by the progressive community of Judaism in Moscow shows that the community as a public institution based on the reproduction of established traditions takes its own specific features. The mechanisms of constructing religious identity within the framework of the community under consideration became the basis for group consolidation and acquired the status of significant for each individual within this community. This local version of progressive Judaism is largely different from the Western version and has its own specific features.

The article is devoted to understanding of the interpretation of the period of the COVID-19 pandemic by members of the communities of Russian Reform Judaism. The problem studied is that in the religious field the reaction to the state quarantine measures was ambiguous. Thus, there is a need to analyze various cases. This article examines the reaction to the pandemic among the rabbis of the Jewish Reform communities in Russia, as well as the theological explanation of the chosen way to communicate during the crisis period. The key question of the study: how do leaders of the reform movement theologically define the need to move religious services online? The study was conducted using semi-structured interviews and participant observation. As a result of the analysis of interview data, the general position of the movement allowed changing the form of a religious ritual depending on the context. In this case, during a pandemic, the life of an individual believer is at risk. The leaders of the communities in question also did not meet resistance regarding the developed position among the believers (as opposed to the orthodox communities).