David Ellenson

First Person

Eugene Borowitz, teacher to generations of rabbis, defined dilemma of the modern Jew

Rabbi David Ellenson offers a remembrance of his teacher, whose charge to question one’s obligations to God was not an academic exercise but an existential demand.

By David Ellenson January 26, 2016 12:27 pm

Ex-head of Reform seminary to run Israel studies center at Brandeis

Rabbi David Ellenson, a scholar of Judaic studies and a prolific author, served a dozen years as president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

June 22, 2015 4:18 pm

Remembering Leonard ‘Leibel’ Fein, ‘a great man in Israel’

Above all, liberal scholar and activist Leonard Fein was a learned and feeling Jew steeped in the values and teachings of the tradition, Rabbi David Ellenson writes.

August 18, 2014 4:25 pm