Jewish Unity and Diversity: A Survey of American Rabbis and Rabbinical Students


 

Publication Date: January 1992

Publisher: American Jewish Committee

Author(s): Samuel C. Heilman

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: American Jewry; Religious denominations; Leadership

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

In order to understand unity and diversity among American Jewry, we began the inquiry by examining the positions of rabbis. If we better understand where the American rabbinate stands in these issues, we will have a standard against which to measure the lay population.