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Neil Gillman has been a part of the JTS community for over 50 years as a student, administrator and member of the faculty. His most enduring contribution as a scholar and a teacher has been a renewed focus on the importance of theological reflection in rabbinic education and Jewish education, both in the Conservative movement and Jewish life generally. This volume seeks to honor Professor Gillman's contributions to Jewish scholarship and education by collecting essays by his colleagues and students that discuss the issues most central to his work, namely Jewish theology, Conservative Judaism and Jewish education.

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Neil Gillman has long been one of the most influential theological voices in the Jewish world. His teaching has directly shaped the thinking of any dozens of Conservative rabbis, and his writings at once greatly learned and extremely accessible have helped many thousands of Jewish lay people to sort out where they stand on key issues of faith. We are all in his debt for reasons this volume in his honor makes abundantly and beautifully clear. --Arnold M. Eisen, Chancellor, the Jewish Theological Seminary

[Neil Gillman's] most enduring contribution as a scholar and a teacher has been a renewed focus on the importance of theological reflection in rabbinic education and Jewish education, both in the Conservative movement and Jewish life generally. This volume seeks to honor Professor Gillman's contributions to Jewish scholarship and education by collecting essays by his colleagues and students that discuss the issues most central to his work, namely Jewish theology, Conservative Judaism and Jewish education. --Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins JewishMediaReview

[Neil Gillman's] most enduring contribution as a scholar and a teacher has been a renewed focus on the importance of theological reflection in rabbinic education and Jewish education, both in the Conservative movement and Jewish life generally. This volume seeks to honor Professor Gillman's contributions to Jewish scholarship and education by collecting essays by his colleagues and students that discuss the issues most central to his work, namely Jewish theology, Conservative Judaism and Jewish education. --Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins, JewishMediaReview

Gillman's innovative thinking about how to construe Jewish faith and how to justify it, his use of anthropology as well as philosophy in approaching questions of God and life after death, and his ability to combine complete intellectual openness and honesty with a commitment to Jewish tradition mark his work as truly important, indeed, a real gift to Jews and non-Jews alike. It is an honor to contribute to this volume in his honor. --Elliot Dorff, Rector, Sol & Anne Dorff Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, American Jewish University

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Rabbi William Plevan, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, has served as the rabbi at Congregation Shaare Zedek since autumn 2009. His current research is on Martin Buber's philosophical anthropology.

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