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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jack ShechterPublisher: University Press of America Imprint: University Press of America Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.748kg ISBN: 9780761863984ISBN 10: 0761863982 Pages: 508 Publication Date: 22 July 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Early Influences Chapter Two: Mentors Chapter Three: From Orthodox to Conservative Chapter Four: The Synagogue Chapter Five: The Rabbinate Chapter Six: The Jewish Community Chapter Seven: The Conservative Movement Chapter Eight: The Imperatives of Learning Chapter Nine: Translating Learning Imperatives into Action Appendix One: Table of Contents For Volume Two of Journey of a Rabbi Appendix Two: Comments About Journey of a Rabbi—Volumes One and Two and About the Author’s Work About the AuthorReviewsJack Shechter has created the American version of Continuing Jewish Education and his impact has been enormous. His enterprise has been characterized by vision and high academic standards; it has been pluralistic and diverse; it has been enjoyable and accessible to a searching laity. In years to come, he will be seen educationally as the American Franz Rosenzweig. -- Daniel Landes, rabbi, director of the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, former director of education of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles Here is the summing up of a life lived among the great personalities and issues of 20th century American Jewry with a compelling agenda for the 21st century. Rabbi Jack Shechter offers both a stirring story and a deep vision. -- David Wolpe, rabbi, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles As a faculty member and dean at the University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University) during the time that Rabbi Jack Shechter directed its Department of Continuing Education, I personally witnessed up close the learning venture he built. That venture is accurately depicted in these two volumes... Moreover, this Journey is very much worth taking because Rabbi Shechter's plethora of experiences and his wisdom should serve as a model for us all in how we too can and should apply the insights and values of Judaism to modernity. -- Elliot Dorff, PhD, rector and distinguished professor of philosophy at the American Jewish University Dr. Jack Shechter's book encompasses both theory and practice. As such, it provides the reader with deep substance, much of which is documented as having been actualized in the world of the here and now. Replete with power and pathos, it is a warm and personal account of the author's life and work as an extraordinarily creative and effective educator. -- Elijah Schochet, rabbi, professor of rabbinic literature at the American Jewish University and author of The Hassidic Movement and the Gaon of Vilna Author InformationJack Shechter served as associate professor of Biblical Studies and Dean of Continuing Education at the University of Judaism, now the American Jewish University, for two decades. Prior to his tenure at the University of Judaism, he served as executive director of the New England Region of the United Synagogue of America, followed by a decade as the Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Israel in Pittsburgh. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary and received his PhD in Biblical Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and is the author of The Land of Israel: Its Theological Dimensions (University Press of America, 2010). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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