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		Ismar Schorsch is Chancellor Emeritus of The Jewish Theological Seminary and is the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish History.
		Schorsch was a guiding force behind the Solomon Schechter High School of New York, established on the JTS campus in 1992 and now located in a new state-of-the-art educational facility on Central Park West in Manhattan.
		Schorsch was ordained as a rabbi by JTS in 1962, holds master's degrees from JTS and Columbia University and was awarded a PhD in Jewish History from Columbia in 1969.
	www.seedwiki.com /wiki/conj/ismar_schorsch?wpid=336495 (747 words)

	Legacy - Religion --Judaism
		Ismar Schorsch, the environment and the Judaic relation to it, historically and at the present, had been an area of growing interest for a decade preceding the ad's publication.
		Schorsch echoes Transcendentalist thought even in choice of language when he declares that any and all environmental problems must be addressed "from the bottom up, at the human level," and he wonders if religion can "imbue the individual citizen with a spiritual renewal that will ennoble his worldview.
		Schorsch interprets the genesis of a theology of self-restraint as directly related to the Genesis of the Bible and the fact that there are two "beginnings" to man's earthly existence.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/transcendentalism/roots/legacy/jud.html (540 words)

	Schorsch marks 18 years at JTS
		Schorsch points to education as one area where the Conservative movement is thriving: Of some 200,000 Jewish day school students around the country, 25 percent hail from the movement's Solomon Schechter Day Schools or community schools largely funded and populated by Conservative Jews.
		Schorsch feels the conflict was complicated by a Massachusetts court decision legalizing gay civil marriages, which sparked a rush of gay weddings in that state and also in San Francisco and in the New York town of New Paltz.
		Schorsch, who as JTS chancellor appoints five members of the 25-member law committee, said he has "been afforded the opportunity to express my views" on the subject to the panel.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/040604/schorsch.shtml (764 words)

	WHAT IS JUDAISM: Learn More: Biography of Ismar Schorsch
		Ismar Schorsch is the sixth chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and its Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish History.
		Schorsch has worked throughout his thirteen years as its leader to convey his vision of Conservative Judaism as the most authentic contemporary expression of rabbinic Judaism.
		Chancellor Schorsch's belief that the survival of the Jewish people depends on education resulted in the creation of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at JTS in September 1996 thanks to a generous gift of $18 million from William Davidson of Detroit.
	www.whatisajew.org /learn/bio_schorsch.shtml (668 words)

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		Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York and a leader of the Conservative movement worldwide, even views as progress the fact that the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies - the Conservative movement's academic institution in Israel - has received approval from the Council for Higher Education to confer Master's degrees.
		Schorsch was among the leaders of the campaign against the Conversion Law during the Netanyahu government.
		Schorsch stresses that all of his bleak sentiments about inequality in conversion practices also apply to the fact that a large percentage of citizens cannot marry in Israel.
	www.masorti.org /media/archive2004/12012004_h.html (1328 words)

	Fairfield University :: Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, to deliver Bennett lecture at ...
		Ismar Schorsch, a noted Jewish scholar and chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, will deliver the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m., at Fairfield University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
		Schorsch is the sixth chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and its Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish History.
		Schorsch was ordained by JTS in 1962 and holds master's degrees from JTS and Columbia University.
	www.fairfield.edu /x6121.xml (690 words)

	The Conundrum of Historical Consciousness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For the same ideas that Schorsch argues provided an apologetics for being Jewish (for the secular Jews) or for acknowledging a "sacred obligation" imposed by history (for the religious one, the Judaists) no longer serve.
		While stressing what was novel, Schorsch goes still further when he alleges that "historical consciousness was always the substratum of Jewish identity." This defines the theme of the twenty-one essays collected in the book: historical scholarship and the scholars that produced it.
		Many of the scholars cited by Schorsch take for granted that "Judaism" is a "historical religion" and rests on an interpretation of historical fact.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9508/reviews/neusner.html (1370 words)

	Jewish Review: Conservatives at crossroads after Schorsch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		With the announcement in June of the upcoming retirement of Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, longtime chancellor of the movement's flagship Jewish Theological Seminary, elements of that future are now slightly less clear, and may hinge in large part on who is selected to succeed Schorsch.
		Schorsch, for his part, often has come down on the side of tradition, a stance that has not been without controversy.
		Schorsch said he doesn't envision a lame-duck year as he prepares to step aside.
	www.jewishreview.org /Archives/Article.php?Article=2005-07-01-1371 (941 words)

	An Important Message From Rabbi Avi Weiss, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
		Both Schorsch and Hollander believe that a Jew who does not agree with their fundamental core values is to be put down and cast outside of the Jewish community.
		In Schorsch's case that core value is his understanding of pluralism--the belief that all manifestations of Judaism are legitimate.
		For Schorsch, it is to try to understand how offended Orthodox Jews are when their practises are assailed as medieval and how difficult and even impossible it is for an Orthodox Jew to part with traditional Jewish dogma which he/she believes goes back to Sinai.
	www.ou.org /torah/weiss/pluralism2.html (882 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, who is retiring as chancellor June 30 after 20 years, also lashed out against “the primitiveness of rap” music and decried the abandonment of “great scholarship” that had been the hallmark of the movement and that had “set us apart as the vital center of modern Judaism.”
		In his commencement remarks, Rabbi Schorsch told the 144 graduates (20 of whom were ordained by the rabbinical school): “As opposed to the dense and demanding discourse of scholarship, students crave instant gratification.
		In the interview, Rabbi Schorsch said that although he had “said many of those things in Mexico City, for the commencement address I wrote it up.” His remarks at the RA convention, he said, were “not as tightly” woven.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=12544 (1512 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York, will retire in June.
		Schorsch, 70, met with The Journal to assess his two decades heading the seminary and his hopes for the future.
		Ismar Schorsch: The chancellor is the head of the Conservative movement.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=15051 (1474 words)

	YudelLine: Ismar Schorsch: One Man, Eighteen Years, Two Articles!
		JTS tonight is celebrating the 18th anniversary of Ismar Schorsch's ascension to the helm of the lead Conservative rabbinical school with a fancy $1000-a-plate tribute dinner (slogan: 1 Man. 18 Years.
		I don't know if I agree with Ismar, but I was impressed, now that I think of it, how he was honest throughout the discussion -- or at the very least never answered a question with relentless hasbara, as many another institutional execs would do.
		What strikes me in that first quote is Schorsch's acceptance of a left-right spectrum as a valid way of measuring both political and religious ideology.
	www.shmoozenet.com /yudel/mtarchives/000269.html (454 words)

	NJJN - Minimalists, maximalists, and other centrists
		Openly gay students are not permitted to seek ordination in the rabbinical seminary or cantorial school, and the movement does not allow its rabbis to perform same-sex commitment ceremonies or weddings.
		Schorsch supports these positions but acknowledges the pressures that are building from within and without.
		Schorsch also warned of a slippery slope on which halachic compromises that empower gays create pressure for the movement to accept “patrilineal descent.” It’s been over 20 years since the Reform movement began regarding as Jews those whose only Jewish parent is the father, and intermarriage rates have only been rising.
	www.njjewishnews.com /njjn.com/2004/52004/edcolminimalists.html (918 words)

	JTA - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Conservative movement is being “impoverished” by a dearth of spirituality, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch said.
		Schorsch is stepping down next month after 20 years at the JTS helm amid concern over Conservative Jewry’s dwindling numbers and the movement’s struggle to articulate a coherent message.
		A “grievous failure of nerve affects Conservative Judaism,” Schorsch said, adding that what the movement needs in “an age of pampered and promiscuous individuals” is not new slogans but a “vigorous reaffirmation of the old which captures our essence.”
	jta.org /page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=2720 (119 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s LUMINARIES Chat With Ismar Schorsch 9/24/98
		Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary has joined us this evening to discuss the Days of Awe.
		Chancellor Schorsch has been a strong proponent of the use of technology to further Jewish education so it is especially appropriate to have him launch our monthly chat series.
		Schorsch, would you comment on the point that the chumash notes that Hagar cried (a term which the sifri denotes as a type of prayer) yet the mikra says "God heard the voice of the child"?
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/luminaries/chats/092498schorsch.html (2365 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s LUMINARIES Ismar Schorsch on VJ Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mordechai Twersky and Chancellor Ismar Schorsch discuss the aftermath of September 11.
		It is a university of Judaic studies that serves as the spiritual and academic center of Conservative Judaism, and has, among its many components and affiliates, a rabbinic seminary, a cantorial school, a graduate school of Jewish studies, an undergraduate school and a state-of-the-art distance learning program that links JTS with students world-wide.
		MT: Chancellor Schorsch, you are in doubt, in contact with many congregational rabbis who have been ordained by the Seminary.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/luminaries/interview/schorsch_jpostradio (1394 words)

	Abolish the Three Weeks?
		Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and de facto head of the world Conservative movement, has declared observance of the Three Weeks neither necessary nor desirable.
		The Jewish calendar, Dr. Schorsch claims, is too saturated with mourning, leading to a mentality of victimhood.
		The mourning practices observed during the former relate to the deaths of the students of Rabbi Akiva, which were a direct consequence of their failure to properly honor one another.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /jonathan/rosenblum071599.asp (949 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rabbi Schorsch believes there is “no question” the Conservative movement will be confronted immediately with the question of patrilineal descent if it admits gay students for rabbinic ordination.
		A longtime proponent of Jewish education, Rabbi Schorsch noted proudly that the JTS has the largest school of Jewish education in the world with 140 full-time students preparing for careers in the field.
		It is one of the biggest changes in the movement in recent years, he noted, citing the creation of new Schechter schools (the day schools associated with the Conservative movement) and also the growth of Conservative Judaism’s Ramah camping movement.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=9529 (730 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ismar Schorsch
		Ismar Schorsch was the sixth Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and is the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history.
		He retired as Chancellor on June 30, 2006, and was succeeded by Arnie Eisen, who took office as Chancellor-elect on July 1, 2006, and will assume the position full time on July 1, 2007.
		In 1995, Schorsch published Sacred Cluster: The Core Values of Conservative Judaism, outlining what he calls the seven clusters of Conservative Judaism.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ismar_Schorsch (172 words)

	WHAT IS JUDAISM: Learn More: A Great Miracle Happened There: A Hanukkah Special
		Rabbi Ismar Schorsch explains that Hanukkah is really about a Jewish civil war, a war between assimilated, Hellenized Jews and a pious band of zealots, the Maccabees.
		The well-known "miracle of the oil," occurs at the end of the story--after the Temple has been retaken by the Maccabees, and rededicated and cleansed.
		Ismar Schorsch is Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
	www.whatisajew.org /learn/han2000.shtml (318 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary plans to retire in 2006.
		Schorsch’s retirement next year, when he is 70, is likely to augur a generational shift.
		Traditionalists in the movement, such as Schorsch — and Jack Wertheimer, the JTS provost who is a front-runner to succeed Schorsch — support the status quo.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=14761 (3028 words)

	CJNews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When an audience member questioned the concept of egalitarianism, Rabbi Schorsch noted, "One of the reasons Jewish law has become inflexible is a surfeit of knowledge and a paucity of courage." The largely Conservative crowd reacted with applause.
		According to a 1990 population study, Conservative Judaism represents the largest segment of the American Jewish community in terms of synagogue affiliation, with 43 percent of synagogue members belonging to a Conservative synagogue.
		During a question and answer session, he noted that teaching of prospective converts is not succeeding in the area of ethnicity.
	www.cjnews.com /pastissues/99/june17-99/front2.htm (594 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s LUMINARIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ismar Schorsch: A Commentary on Tisha B'Av (I)
		Ismar Schorsch: A Commentary on Tisha B'Av (II)
		Ismar Schorsch: Is There a Future for the Conservative Movement?, 3/25/98
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/luminaries (288 words)

	What is Judaism? podcast
		Rabbi Schorsch esplains that the weekly observance of Shabbat, a day without work, is a way of conserving the Earth's resources, and of renewing oneself.
		Dr. Schorsch tells Larry the story of Passover - its history, rituals and foods, and the origins and structure of the Seder.
		Larry Josephson talks with Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, about the history, liturgy and customs of the High Holy Days, and the value of these ancient rituals in the modern age.
	www.digitalpodcast.com /detail.php?id=1577 (778 words)

	Podcast.net - The Podcast Directory
		Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, talks with host Larry Josephson about the Jewish Sabbath in celebration of Earth Day.
		Larry Josephson talks with Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, about Sukkot, the festival of huts, how it evolved in Jewish history, how it's celebrated today, and...
		Rabbi Ismar Schorsch talks with Larry Josephson about Purim, which celebrates the defeat of Haman's plot to destroy the Jews during the reign of Ahasureus, king of Persia.
	www.podcast.net /show/41892 (289 words)

	The Lion's Tale: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s Biennial Convention in October, Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) Chancellor Rabbi Ismar Schorsch stated that the movement’s decision 50 years ago that Jews could drive to synagogue on Shabbat was a mistake.
		Schorsch’s statements about this issue were received with both positive and negative criticism.
		JDS parent Paul Hamburger also believes that it was wrong of Schorsch to make this declaration because “he is the head of JTS and should stand behind their movement’s ruling.”
	www.lionstale.org /21n3/news/n-conserv.html (370 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rabbi Schorsch, speaking Monday at the North American Camping Leaders Assembly, said he has recommended that leaders of the Conservative movement’s Ramah camps consider allowing the children of Jewish fathers to attend their camps until age 13.
		The change is necessary because of demographics, Schorsch said, adding that 34 percent of American-Jewish children consider themselves Jewish because of patrilineal descent.
		Rabbi Schorsch, who plans to retire as chancellor in June and rejoin the JTS faculty, said he believes his proposal “would be inclusive without compromising our religious principles.” He also suspects that the number of children admitted under his proposal would be small, he said, “but we need to test the waters.”
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=12169 (492 words)

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