David Saperstein

male
national public radio, ReformJudaism, rabbi, the washington post, American, NAACP…Reform Jewish
David Saperstein is a rabbi and Reform Jewish community leader, serving as the director and counsel of the movement's Religious Action Center for...
Gunther Plaut

Gunther Plaut

male, 97 years old
German, Jewish person, rabbi, Order of Canada, Humash, Order of Ontario…ReformJudaism, Reform rabbi
Wolf Gunther Plaut, C.C., O.Ont., J.D.S., LL.D. (born November 1, 1912) is a Rabbi of Reform Judaism and author. Plaut was the Rabbi of Holy...

Dan Nichols

male
Jewish, musician, Jewish American, Jewish person, American, ReformJudaism…Reform Jewish movement
Dan Nichols is one of the most popular and influential Jewish musicians in North America, performing over 200 concerts a year. His music has become...
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel

male, deceased (1972)
Jews and Judaism in Cincinnati, Pacifist, From Warsaw, APT, Jewish Theological Seminary Of America, panentheist…Conservative Judaism, Philosopher of Judaism, ReformJudaism
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century. Heschel was a...
Abraham Geiger

Abraham Geiger

male, deceased (1874)
University of Bonn alumni, Michael Meyer, Judaism and Islam, An Appeal to My Community, Origins of the Koran, Historiographer of Islam…ReformJudaism, Reform rabbi, judaism
Abraham Geiger (1810-1874) was a German rabbi who led the foundation for Reform Judaism, where he sought to remove all nationalistic elements...

David Ellenson

male
rabbi, The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt, reform movement, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew University, Hebrew Union College…ReformJudaism, Reform rabbi, judaism
David Ellenson is a rabbi who is known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism. He is the president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish...
Isaac Mayer Wise

Isaac Mayer Wise

male, deceased (1900)
Lodge Street Synagogue, Jews and Judaism in Cincinnati, czech, Jewish person, From Cincinnati, Bene Yeshurun congregation…Reform rabbi, ReformJudaism, reform
Isaac Mayer Wise (March 29 1819, Steingrub (now Lomnička), Bohemia - March 26 1900, Cincinnati), American Reform rabbi, editor, and author. He was t...
Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn

male, deceased (1786)
Jewish, Haskalah, from Saxony-Anhalt, German-language philosopher, ReformJudaism, Jewish person…Philosopher of Judaism
Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 - January 4, 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah,...
Jacob Rader Marcus

Jacob Rader Marcus

male, deceased (1995)
Jews and Judaism in Cincinnati, ReformJudaism, World War I, jewish history, Reform rabbi, World War II…reform
Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995) was a scholar of Jewish history and a Reform rabbi. Born in New Haven, Pennsylvania, United States, into a...

Samuel Adler

male, deceased (1891)
Felix Adler, Congregation Emanu-El of New York, University of Bonn alumni, Gymnasium, Worms, Germany, Worms…reform, ReformJudaism, Reform rabbi
Samuel Adler (b. Worms, Germany, December 3, 1809; d. New York City, June 9, 1891) was a leading German-American Reform rabbi, Talmudist, and...