The Rise of Reform and the Rabbinic Response (Part 11)
Rabbi Israel Levinthal's memoir; Rabbi Berel Wein's new book; prayer in the vernacular for those who don't understand Hebrew; musical instruments in synagogues before the rise of Reform; letters of Rabbis Mordechai Benet, Eliezer Loew, and Jacob Lorberbaum; should one be happy during prayer?; declaring Reform a "sect".
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Dr. Marc Shapiro
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. A graduate of Brandeis (BA) and Harvard (PhD), he is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews and is a popular scholar in residence at synagogues around the world. He has written Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. Other books of his include Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox, Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters, and Changing…