My old friend (and one-time youth grouper) Rabbi Aaron Panken was recently chosen to be the new president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform movement’s flagship seminary. It is an excellent choice. Aaron is a scholar, blessed with great intelligence, vision, an engaging personality, and decades of service to the Reform movement. We should expect much greatness from him.
I was pleased to see that I was not the only one who noticed something interesting. Uriel Heilman, writing in JTA,
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