Courage and Innovation

And at 80, Rabbi Harold Schulweis plans to keep going

By Julie G Fax

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/courage_and_innovation_20050401/

If you want to follow the thread of religious innovation and ethical behavior in modern Jewish life, you won't need to stray far from the career and philosophies of Rabbi Harold Schulweis. In fact, you probably can't confront those topics without confronting the work of Schulweis.

Since he was ordained in 1950, Schulweis has challenged the status quo with an intellectualism and a fearlessness born of the confidence that moral rightness is on his side.

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