The Religious Significance of Israel: A Personal Love Story and Accounting
Speech to the 2018 Rabbinical Assembly Convention
The minute I realized that I’d be giving this talk three days after Yom Ha’atzma’ut, and three days before flying to Israel for a day-long yom iyyun sponsored jointly by JTS and the Schechter Institute, I knew that my subject this afternoon would be Israel and our relationship to Israel.
Mychal Springer Remembers Rabbi Neil Gillman (z”l)
I am proud to be a student of Neil Gillman’s. Many of us in this room are students of Neil’s, and many of us could be speaking about the amazing experience of being Neil’s student.
I learned from Neil in three places:
His dining room table.
His classroom.
His office.
Joel Roth Remembers Neil Gillman (z”l)
Eulogy Delivered November 26, 2017
“What Neil really worried about was whether we, all of us, each and every one of us, were grappling with the theological issues with which rabbinic education at The Jewish Theological Seminary was confronting us.”
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The term “Jewish mother” can still evoke the stereotype of a smothering, guilt-inducing matriarch. But thousands of years of Jewish culture have produced far more varied depictions of Jewish motherhood. JTS’s Marjorie Lehman and two colleagues set out to find and examine those depictions, and the result is a new book, co-edited by Lehman, called Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination.
