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.
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.
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.