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e-TiM: A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform: Rabbi Zechariah Frankel and the Positive-Historical School

A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform: Rabbi Zechariah Frankel and the Positive-Historical School

Dr. Marc Shapiro

Mondays,October 31, 2022 - January 30, 2023

8:30 pm Eastern

After examining the first two generations of Reform and the Orthodox response (see here), we turn to another response: The Positive-Historical School led by Rabbi Zechariah Frankel. Is this the beginning of Conservative Judaism?

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 1)

November 1, 2022

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 2)

November 8, 2022

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 3)

November 15, 2022

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 4)

November 22, 2022

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 5)

November 29, 2022

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 6)

December 6, 2022

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 7)

December 13, 2022

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 8)

December 20, 2022

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 9)

January 24, 2023

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A Middle Ground Between Orthodoxy and Reform (Part 10)

January 31, 2023

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Meet the speaker

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

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