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…) and Jason gram, as well as the Ohr Somayach and Aish HaTorah Miller (University of Michigan Hillel) as important young lunch-and-learn sessions, is a tribute to that foresight. additions to our Michigan…
… roots what they thought. Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Both impressed me with their clarity of thought. Dr. Sarna gave the sermon at the Hebrew Youthful Wisdom Union College…
…EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK jarc Shabbat Sparks Cincinnati "Do not worry about who sits where," Dr Sarna told the n intellectual giant among Jewish professors told Class of 2004. "Do not worry about honor…
… and status. the newest class of Reform rabbis that the inex- Instead, like our first and greatest rabbi, Moses, strive for orable breakup of a caste system within the day when all Jews, men and women…
… alike, may stand American Judaism did not come at the expense fully equal to one another: as priests and as prophets, as of tradition. rabbis and as teachers, without heed to wealth or to ances- Rather…
…, it was an outgrowth of the changing Jewish experi- try — and above all, as Jews united in the quest for Jewish ence from the American Revolution onward, said Jonathan learning and for Jewish living…
…." Sarna, the Joseph H. and Belle Braun Professor of American That's no small order for a young rabbi. So I asked the Jewish History and past chair of Near Eastern and Judaic two class graduates with Detroit…
…-Jewish Institute of Religion Class of 2004 ordainment ceremony held Rabbi Jennifer Tisdale Kroll splits her time between Temple last Shabbat at the historic Plum Street Israel in West Bloomfield and the Southfield…
…-based Jewish Temple in downtown Cincinnati. This Hospice and Chaplaincy Network. Rabbi Aaron Starr joins Cincinnati-based class of 12 included seven Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg at Shir Tikvah in Troy. women and five…
… men. Equality of the individual is at the center of their world. Dr. Sarna tapped into this 350th As Reform rabbis, they say, Halachah (Jewish law) guides anniversary year of American Jewish life to…