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Glaser, Joseph B : TANU RABBANAN : OUR RABBIS TAUGHT : ESSAYS ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBIS

New York : CCAR., 1990.

8vo. 155 pages. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Rabbis – United States – office; Reform Judaism – United States – history; Reform Judaism – Israel; Central Conference of American Rabbis – history. CONTENTS: Introduction, Joseph B. Glaser; The history of the Conference, Sidney L. Regner & Elliot L. Stevens; Tanu Rabbanan: out masters have taught us, Eugene J. Lipman; The rabbi as religious figure, Samuel E. Karff; Unity within diversity, Charles D. Kroloff; Israel and the Reform Rabbinate, Marc Saperstein; The next century, Peter J. Rubinstein. SERIES: Yearbook ; ; 1989, v. 2; Variation: Yearbook (Central Conference of American Rabbis) ; ; 1989, v. 2. ISBN: 088123012X. A Reform rabbi, Glaser (1925-1994) was born in Boston. He served in WWII, earning a Purple Heart; graduated from UCLA in 1948; earned a law degree from the University of San Francisco; and was ordain by Hebrew Union College in 1956. He became the Northern California/Pacific Region director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1959, and in 1971 became executive vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) . In 1990, Glaser oversaw the decision of the Reform Rabbinate to open membership to rabbis without regard to their sexual orientation. (EJ, 2007) Has dust jacket. Fine condition. (AMR-35-14)

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