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Sep 19, 2024
Yehuda Kurtzer reflects on shifts in the Jewsih landscape in an interview for Moment Magazine.
Sep 19, 2024
"The rabbi is the oldest, most venerable and perhaps most important model of a Jewish professional leader." Yehuda Kurtzer writes in EJP.
Sep 13, 2024
I feel that my path as a rabbi has not yet been charted...This itself seems true to the calling, to the rabbinate, to our lived life as individuals, as a community, as a people.
Sep 13, 2024
The Hartman Rabbanut program is a gift that arrived at a moment in my life when I am standing fully and upright in my purpose.
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