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Past Is Present: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism

American Jewish Archives 3101 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, OH, United States

Bucking denominational trends of the early 1920s, Stephen S. Wise’s Jewish Institute of Religion was founded on freedom of thought and practice. The cadre of JIR alumni who would later join the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) inspired a counter-cultural rabbinic ethos that flowed from their fledgling seminary to eventually pervade Reform Judaism. Rabbi Idelson will explore this history, including aspects […]