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Employing the traditional account of the establishment of Yavneh as a center of Jewish learning and self-governance in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple, Rabbi Haim Rechnitzer, Ph.D., offers a trenchant critique and a clarion call to Reform Jewish leaders to grasp the enormity of our own current Yavneh moment.
While the pandemic has impacted all, some sectors of society have been disproportionately exposed to its ravages. Jan D. Katzew, Rabbi, Ph.D., considers what our current moment reveals about attitudes to the old, and what Jewish tradition can offer in this crucial conversation.
How to be passionate and moderate is a perennial challenge made more acute by the extreme circumstances of these days. Rabbi Michael Marmur, Ph.D., argues that in order to be equal to the enormity of the challenge, Reform Judaism will have to redouble its efforts to proceed with seriousness of purpose and resoluteness of spirit.
Well known in Israel as an author, poet, artist, teacher of rabbinic literature and public intellectual, Ruhama Weiss, Ph.D., offers a provocative and resonant reading of a Talmudic tale. Her interpretation connects the Sages of two millennia ago to the Pride Parade in contemporary Jerusalem, and many stops in between.
In this exercise in Rabbinic Theology, noted scholar of the Talmud Alyssa M. Gray, J.D, Ph.D., presents a portrait of God as known to the Sages of the Talmud. In this period of uncertainty, the ancient quest seems more germane and more urgent than ever.
