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December 18, 2023

Remembering David Ellenson’s Reform Zionist Theology

“In those moments my spirit, moved me instinctively to thank God for the sanctification of life the Jewish state embodies.”

On December 7, Rabbi David Ellenson, a theologian, scholar, and former president of the Hebrew Union College, died at the age of seventy-six. Ellenson wrote important studies of the history of Orthodoxy while serving as one of the great theorists and leaders of Reform. He was also, as Gil Troy notes, a devoted Zionist:

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