A father and his daughter are among the 19 winners of the 2005 National Jewish Book Awards. Rabbi David Ellenson, president of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, grabbed the top award in the category of modern Jewish thought and experience for his work, “After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity,” a documentation of how modernism revitalized Judaism.
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