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That revelation inspired
Jewish exploration. A student at
the University of California-
Santa Barbara, Stone "wan-
dered down to Los Angeles,
hooked up to the University of
Judaism, and the next thing I

knew, I was a rabbi." He gradu-
ated from the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary and was ordained
in 1979.
"My real reason for becoming
a rabbi was to become a Jew.
There were not that many ways

and places [then] where a college
student could find a place to se-
riously explore Jewish literature,
text, religious life. This was be-
fore the explosion of the ba'al
teshuvah (return to Judaism)
yeshivot."

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Rabbi Ira Stone: Interpreting for the layman.

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When Stone says he "became
a Jew," he means "someone who
is conversant in Jewish culture,
literature, able to read Jewish
classical texts and sources,
able to shape one's values ac-
cording to Jewish values, al-
though sometimes [taking a
critical stance], and comfortable
in the full range of Jewish
cultural, religious, literary ex-
pression. All of that has been
much more important in some
ways than the professional as-
pect."
Stone's scholarly pursuits in-
clude the fields of philosophy and
Talmud, and how the two inter-
act. Specifically, he has studied
the philosophy of Emanuel Lev-
inas, a French-Jewish philoso-
pher who read Talmud through
contemporary eyes and about
whom Stone has written a forth-
coming book, to debut next win-
ter (Reading Levinas /Reading
Talmud, Jewish Publication So-
ciety).
When he comes to Detroit,
Stone will talk about Levinas as
well as the siddur, liturgy, spiri-
tuality, repentance.
"I've been a congregational rab-
bi for 18 years and have been able
to combine that with a fairly in-
tense career in scholarship and
teaching at the [Jewish Theolog-
ical] Seminary," says Stone. "I re-

ally think I know where people
are at and the kinds of things
people deal with in their every-
day lives as well as being an ivory
tower kind of scholar. My partic-
ular strength is being able to
translate or interpret successfully
scholarship for the layperson."
Stone's fall schedule includes
events with Congregation Beth
Shalom, Aug. 19-24; Congrega-
tion Beth Achim, Aug. 29-30; a
lunch and learn on Sept. 4 and
11 at the Federation building;
Congregation Beth Abraham Hil-
lel Moses, Sept. 6-7; Adat Shalom
Synagogue, Sept. 19-21; and a
Nov. 21 young adult weekend at
Congregation B'nai Moshe.
He will also speak at Hillel
Day School, the University of
Michigan School of Social Work
Project STaR and the Agency for
Jewish Education.
For more information about
Rabbi Stone's fall scholar-in-res-
idence schedule, call (248) 642-
4890. ❑

Correction

A story on private investiga-
tor Norman Lebowitz in last
week's Jewish News was in-
advertently attributed. The
author was Linda Bachrack.

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