We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism Idelson Shirley
We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism Idelson Shirley How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a leader of the Zionist movement,…
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We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism Idelson Shirley
How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a leader of the Zionist movement, established the Jewish Institute of Religion (JIR), a nondenominational rabbinical seminary in New York City. Wise changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-firstIn 1922, Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise believed mainstream American Jewish institutions had become outdated and he championed a progressive Jewish nationalism that would fight alongside America's leading proponents of social and economic justice.We Shall Build Anew tells the little-known story of how Wise changed the trajectory of American Judaism for the next century. Having already founded the thriving Free Synagogue movement and the American Jewish Congress, he intended to revolutionize American liberal Judaism. Through JIR, he trained a new cadre of young rabbis who shared