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David Ellenson

Religious Studies

#1132

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#2092

Historical Rank

#484

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David Ellenson's Degrees

PhD Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Brandeis University
Bachelors Philosophy Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, David Ellenson is an American rabbi and academic who is known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism. Ellenson is currently director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and visiting professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies at Brandeis University and interim president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion . He previously served as president of HUC-JIR from 2001 to December 31, 2013, and is now chancellor emeritus of that college. Ellenson is currently serving as interim president following the death of his successor, Aaron D. Panken.

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David Ellenson's Published Works

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A Disputed PrecedentThe Prague Organ in Nineteenth-Century Central-European Legal Literature and Polemics (1995) (21)
A Jewish Legal Decision by Rabbi Bernard Illowy of New Orleans and its Discussion in Nineteenth Century Europe in Orthodox Judaism in America. (1979) (5)
The Israelitische Gebetbücher of Abraham Geiger and Manuel Joël: A Study in Nineteenth-Century German-Jewish Communal Liturgy and Religion (1999) (3)
The Supreme Court, Yeshiva Students, and Military Conscription: Judicial Review, the Grunis Dissent, and its Implications for Israeli Democracy and Law (2018) (1)
“Who is a Convert? ”—The Law of Return and the Legality of Reform and Conservative Conversions in Israel (2022) (1)
Emancipation and the directions of modern judaism : The lessons of Meliz Yosher (1996) (1)
Chaim Waxman. Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy. Liverpool: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2017. vi + 226 pp. (2021) (0)
Antinomianism and Its Responses in the Nineteenth Century (2017) (0)
Op Ed: Prop. 8 goes against God's love for every person (2008) (0)
Books received (1963) (0)
Interpretive Fluidity and P’Sak in A Case of Pidyon Sh’Vuyim: A Modern Israeli Responsum Illuminated by the Thought of David Hartman (2017) (0)
Judaism and the Future of Religion in America: A Symposium in Response to Dana Evan : An insider view : A defense of theological imprecision (2004) (0)
Rabbi Hayim David Halevi on Christianity and Christians:: An Analysis of Selected Legal Writings of an Israeli Authority (2010) (0)
Samuel C. Heilman: Who Will Lead Us?: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America (2018) (0)
Tzedakah and fundraising : A nineteenth-century response (1996) (0)
A New Rite from Israel: Reflections on Siddur Va'ani Tefillati of the Masorati (Conservative) Movement (2000) (0)
The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience , written by Michael Zank and Ingrid Anderson (2017) (0)
Jewish Legal Interpretation of Moral Values: Two Responsa by Rabbi Hayyim David Halevi on the Obligations of the Israeli Government towards Its Minority Population (2001) (0)

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