NYJW Opinion

 At HUC-JIR’s Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, where we just admitted one of our largest classes in recent years, the cantorate is in a process of continuous renewal (“Where Have All The Cantors Gone?” Culture View column, Aug. 28). Our cantors are flourishing throughout the Reform movement, integrating tradition with modernity and serving the […]

As a Reconstructionist rabbi, I don’t know how the faculty of the seminary that ordained me will ultimately decide the policy question [over ordaining intermarried rabbis] though I have deeply appreciated the depth of study, discussion, and rabbinic debate that has informed hundreds of conversations on the subject (“Will Other Movements Follow?” Aug. 21). I […]