- Joel Roth
Joel Roth is a prominent American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly, which is the rabbinical body of Conservative Judaism. He is a former member and chair of the assembly's "Committee on Jewish Law and Standards" (CJLS) which deals with questions of Jewish law and tradition, and serves as the Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) of America, in NYC, where he formerly served as dean of the Rabbinical School. - Solomon Schechter
Solomon Schechter (1847-1915) was a Romanian Jewish rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century. Heschel was a descendant of preeminent rabbinic families of Europe, both on his father's (Moshe Mordechai Heschel, who died of influenza in 1916) and mother's (Reizel Perlow Heschel) side, and a descendant of Rebbe Avrohom Yehoshua Heshl of Apt and other dynasties. He was the youngest of six children including his siblings: Sarah, Dvora Miriam, … - Louis Finkelstein
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein was a Talmud scholar and expert in Jewish law. He taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the first American seminary of Conservative Judaism. He was awarded a doctorate from Columbia in 1918, became a rabbi in 1919, and after many years as professor of theology at the Jewish Theological Seminary he was appointed Chancellor in 1951. He authored a number of books, including "Tradition in the Making, … - Cyrus Adler
Cyrus Adler (September 13, 1863, Van Buren, Arkansas - April 7, 1940, Philadelphia) was a U.S. educator, Jewish religious leader and scholar. Adler was born in Arkansas, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and gained a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was a founder of the Jewish Welfare Board, and an editor of the "Jewish Encyclopedia" and the Jewish Publication Society of America Version of the Hebrew Bible. - Ismar Schorsch
Ismar Schorsch (1935-) was the sixth Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and is the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history. He served as Chancellor for 19 years and retired on June 30, 2006. He was succeeded by Arnold Eisen. In 1995, Schorsch published "Sacred Cluster: The Core Values of Conservative Judaism", outlining what he calls the seven clusters of Conservative Judaism. - Neil Gillman
Neil Gillman (born 11 September 1933) is an American rabbi, an adherent of Conservative Judaism, and a philosopher. - Louis Ginzberg
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. - Saul Lieberman
Saul Lieberman (1898-1983), also known as The "Gra"sh" ("Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul"), was a rabbi and a scholar of Talmud. He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary for over 40 years, and was for many years, head of the Harry Fischel Institute in Israel and also president of the American Academy for Jewish Research. - Arnold Eisen
Arnold (Arnie) Eisen, Ph.D. (1951-) is Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1986. Prior to teaching at Stanford, he taught at Tel Aviv University and Columbia University. Eisen has been appointed the seventh Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, replacing Rabbi Dr. Ismar Schorsch. Eisen will be the second non-rabbi, after Cyrus Adler, … - Chaim Potok
Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents, Benjamin Max (d. 1958) and Mollie (Friedman) Potok (d. 1985), gave him a Hebrew name, Chaim Tzvi. His Orthodox education taught him Talmud as well as secular studies. He decided to become a writer as a teenager, after reading Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited". - Mordecai Kaplan
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881-November 8, 1983) was a rabbi and the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. Kaplan was born in Lithuania and was ordained as a rabbi at Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York City in 1902. Kaplan began his career as an Orthodox rabbi at Kehillath Jeshrun, a synagogue in New York. He helped to create the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism with Rabbi Israel Friedlander, … - Gordon Tucker
Gordon Tucker is a prominent rabbi, with a reputation as both a political and a theological liberal in Conservative Judaism. He currently has a position as senior rabbi of Temple Israel Center in White Plains, New York. In 2006, his name was listed as one of the frontrunners for the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, to replace Chancellor Ismar Schorsch upon his retirement. Arnold Eisen was ultimately chosen for the position. - Moshe Greenberg
Moshe Greenberg is a major scholar in the area of Biblical studies, in the course of a career that has spanned half a century. He has also made major contributions to the study of Semitic languages. He was born in Philadelphia on 10 July, 1928. At the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. in 1954, he studied Bible and Assyriology with E. A. Speiser; simultaneously, he studied post-Biblical Judaica at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. - Israel Abrahams
Israel Abrahams (b. London, November 26 1858; d. Cambridge, October 6 1925) was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most notably, "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages" (1896). He was educated at Jews' College, where his father Barnett Abrahams served as principal, and at University College, London. In 1881, he received the degree of MA from the University of London. - David G. Dalin
Rabbi David Gil Dalin is a Conservative rabbi, and author and co-author of several books on Jewish history. He is currently a professor of history and political science at Ave Maria University, and was previously associate professor of American Jewish history at the University of Hartford. Dalin received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a master's and doctorate from Brandeis University, … - Bella Abzug
Bella Savitsky Abzug was a well-known American political figure and a leader of the women's movement. She famously said, "This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives," in her successful 1970 campaign to join that body. - Jules Harlow
Jules Harlow (born June 28, 1931) is a rabbi and liturgist; son of Henry and Lena Lipman Harlow. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa. In 1952 at Morningside College in Sioux City he earned a B.A., and from there went to New York City to study in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; here he became ordained as a rabbi in 1959. He then became a staff member of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international organization of rabbis in Conservative Judaism. - Lee I. Levine
Lee I. Levine is a Talmud scholar and historian of classical Judaism. He is a professor of Jewish history and archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received degrees at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), where he was ordained as a Rabbi, and Columbia University. He was a student of Gerson Cohen. He has been a teacher at: Hebrew University, JTS, Yale University and the Seminary of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem. - Harold M. Schulweis
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis (1925-) is a Rabbi, author, and a longtime Spiritual Leader at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, CA. Known for his highly skilled oratory, Rabbi Schulweis, starting back in 1970 when he came to Valley Beth Shalom, began to attract hundreds of congregants each week to his Friday night Sabbath services and is generally given credit for reviving and re-newing Judaism among many of his followers. - Amy Eilberg
Rabbi Amy Eilberg (born October 12 1954) is the first woman rabbi ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism. Ordained in 1985, she was the first woman appointed to serve on the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards in 1986. As of 2004, the JTS has ordained more than 150 women rabbis and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies has ordained approximately 30. - Abby Joseph Cohen
Abby Joseph Cohen 'Abby Joseph Cohen ' ( CFA ) (born 1952 in Queens, New York ) is an American economist and financial analyst on Wall Street . She is a partner and chief U.S. investment strategist at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Ms Cohen earned economics degrees from Cornell University and George Washington University then began her career as an economist in 1973 at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. serving until 1977. - David G. Roskies
David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and Professor of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is the author of numerous books, including "Against the Apocalypse" (1984) and "A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling" (1998). A native of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Roskies now resides in New York City. - Aaron L. Mackler
Aaron L. Mackler is a Conservative rabbi, a professor of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, author, and a bio-ethicist. Mackler is an expert in the philosophy of Conservative Judaism and in Bioethics. He graduated from Yale University in 1980. Mackler was ordained as a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He earned a Ph.D in philosophy from Georgetown University. - Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Tikva Frymer-Kensky (1943 - August 31, 2006) was a Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She received her MA and PhD from Yale University. She had previously served on the faculties of Wayne State University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Yale University, Ben Gurion University, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she served as director of Biblical Studies. Her areas of specialization included Assyriology and Sumerology, … - William H. Lebeau
William H. Lebeau is an American Rabbi, and Dean of The Rabbinical School, Vice Chancellor and Chairman of the Department of Professional Skills, and Lecturer of Professional Skills at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. Lebeau will step down by July 1, 2007. He will be succeeded by Rabbi Daniel S. Nevins. - Elkan Nathan Adler
Elkan Nathan Adler was an Anglo-Jewish author, lawyer, historian, and collector of manuscripts. Adler's father was Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. He travelled extensively and built an enormous library, particularly of old Jewish documents. Adler was among the first to explore the documents stored in the Cairo Genizah. During his visits to Cairo in 1888 and 1895 Adler collected and brought over 25,000 Genizah manuscript fragments back to England. - Moses Hadas
Moses Hadas was an American teacher, one of the leading classical scholars of the twentieth century, and a translator of numerous works. Raised in Atlanta in a Yiddish Orthodox Jewish household, his early studies included rabbinical training; he graduated from Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1926) and took his doctorate in classics in 1930. He was fluent in Yiddish, German, ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek, Latin, French, and Italian, … - Simon Halkin
Simon Halkin, Israeli poet, was born in Belarus in 1899. He lived and studied in the USA from 1914 to 1932. He worked as a teacher in Tel Aviv from 1932 to 1939, but then returned to America. He made his final move to Israel in 1949, when he succeeded Joseph Klausner as Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. - Jonathan Reuben Cohen
Dr. Jonathan Reuben Cohen (born July 18, 1958) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maine at Farmington. In 2003, he won the Best Faculty Award of the year. In 2004, he became the first Director of General Education at that university. He specializes in teaching history of philosophy, ethics, and logic. He has research interests in Nietzsche, ancient philosophy, and Jewish philosophy. Cohen graduated from Harvard with a major in philosophy in 1980, … - Albert Jean Amateau
Albert Jean Amateau was a rabbi, businessman, lawyer and social activist. Born a Sephardic Jew in Milas, Turkey, Amateau attended the American International College in İzmir (Smyrna), Turkey. He emigrated to the United States in 1910. In the early 1920s, Amateau began a movement to bring more Jews into the workplace and government. He was also involved largely in the affairs of deaf people. - Saul Kaiserman
- Ariel
I'm a graduate student pursuing a Master's Degree at the. - William Krieger
But, enough about me. - Evita
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- Ariel Schwartz
It's time for a revamp. I've finished my third year at Columbia University, in Manhattan, which really is the best city in the world as far as I'm concerned. Then again, I haven't traveled much lately, so it's really getting time for me to get out and see what else there is. School's my life right now, though I do work (teach) on the side and occasionally manage to explore the city. Other than that, you could consider me a major contradiction of all things. - David Wolkin
People trust me with their children. If you knew me well, you'd understand why I think this is so funny. It's not funny because I plan to do something evil with/to them, but rather because I plan to make those kids smarter than their parents. What adult would ever want that? Also, I can make a delicious apple cobbler. It'll knock your socks off. And if not, then you'll simply enjoy the taste. (This has all been hastily copied from my Friendster page. I'm totally out of date.) - John Leys
I was born in 1973 in Long Island, NY.. raised in Albany, OR.. spent 5 years in the US Army.. completed a BA in Religious Studies from the University of South Florida at Tampa.. I recently finished my MA in Judaic Studies at the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary in NYC and am relocating to Oregon. I play alto sax, harmonica, recorder and ukulele. - Gary
I am a four-time Grammy winner who often lies about various awards I've received. Sometimes I'll pull my T-shirt halfway off my head and run around like an Arab sheik in my underpants demanding people feed me delicious cookies and stuff. I think colors are pretty and so are YOU! Christ up a toddler, is there any way to waste more time on the Internet? Fuck off.
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