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

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

Name: Past Is Present: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism
Start: 2024-01-08T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-01-08T21:30:00-05:00

Date: Monday, January 8, 2024

Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EST

Location: American Jewish Archives

Speakers: Rabbi Shirley Idelson, Ph.D., Director of the Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management

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 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 connected to the Cincinnati Jewish community, and its resonance today.