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Robert Gordis (February 6, 1908 – January 3, 1992) was an American leading conservative rabbi. He founded the first Conservative Jewish day school, served as President of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Synagogue Council of America, and was a professor at Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1940 to 1992.

He wrote one of the first pamphlets explaining Conservative ideology in 1946, and in 1988 he chaired the Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism which produced the official statement of Conservative ideology "Emet Ve-Emunah".

Gordis was the founding editor in 1951 of the quarterly journal Judaism.

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collaborate more closely, now and in the future. Conservative Rabbi Robert Gordis wrote an essay on "Ground Rules for a Christian Jewish Dialogue"; in...

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Matrilineality in Judaism

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Conservative Judaism

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Daniel H. Gordis, Positive-Historical Judaism Exhausted Archived April 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. in: Conservative Judaism, XLVII. Gordis, Struggle...

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies Robert Gordis, JTS professor and president of the Rabbinical Assembly Daniel Gordis, senior vice president of Shalem...

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Harper. Robert Gordis, 1962, "Ground Rules for a Christian-Jewish Dialogue" in The Root and the Branch, Univ. of Chicago Press. Robert Gordis et al.,...

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Abraham Lilienfeld, prominent public health pioneer, served as Gordis’ advisor. Gordis completed his pediatrics training at Hopkins while also a member...

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Judaism and Mormonism

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Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism, Ed. Robert Gordis, JTS, New York, 1988 Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary, Ed. David Lieber...

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Messiah in Judaism

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Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism, Ed. Robert Gordis, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1988 Cohen, Abraham (1995)...

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Jewish principles of faith

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1986 Fox, Marvin Interpreting Maimonides, Univ. of Chicago Press. 1990 Robert Gordis (Ed.) Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism...

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Siddur

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sources. Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book Ed. Morris Silverman with Robert Gordis, 1946. USCJ and RA Weekday Prayer Book Ed. Morris Silverman, 1956. USCJ...

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List of rabbis

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professor Louis Ginzberg (1873–1953), American Conservative Talmud scholar Robert Gordis, leader in Conservative Judaism Sidney Greenberg, rabbi and author Simon...

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Judaism

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 113–117. Segal 2008, pp. 121–123. Gillman 1993. Elazar & Geffen 2012. Robert Gordis. "Torah MiSinai:Conservative Views". A Modern Approach to a Living Halachah...

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Siddur Sim Shalom

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by Rabbi Morris Silverman, edited by a commission chaired by Rabbi Robert Gordis and first published in 1946. Siddur Sim Shalom contained greater discussion...

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Schechter Day School Network

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School: Our History" Accessed September 7, 2020. Goldman, Ari L. "Rabbi Robert Gordis, 83, Dies; Defined Conservative Judaism", The New York Times, January...

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Conservative halakha

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See Roth's "The Halakhic Process", Louis Jacobs "A Tree of Life", and Robert Gordis "The Dynamics of Judaism: A Study in Jewish Law" (stressed in introduction...

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Deaths in January 1992

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freedom fighter. Dame Judith Anderson, 94, Australian actress, pneumonia. Robert Gordis, 83, American conservative rabbi. Carl McVoy, 61, American pianist....

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List of winners of the National Jewish Book Award

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Israel?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-31. "Daniel Gordis". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2020-01-31. Prince, Cathryn J. "Former NBC...

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Regina Jonas

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as Jonas. Regina Jonas is also discussed briefly in a 1984 paper by Robert Gordis who notes Jonas was an early example of the ordination of a woman as...

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Will Herberg

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became a religious conservative, founding the quarterly Judaism with Robert Gordis and Milton R. Konvitz. During the 1960s, he was the religion editor...

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Theodore Friedman

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Jewish Conservative movement's theology. Friedman was co-editor, with Robert Gordis, of Jewish Life in America (1955), an expansion of the special issue...

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Judaism and environmentalism

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Jerusalem: Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies : Rubin Mass, 1998. Robert Gordis. "Ecology in the Jewish Tradition" Midstream 28: Aug-Sep (1982), 202-21;...

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Committee on Jewish Law and Standards

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Goldfarb (1952, 1954, 1958) Fishel J. Goldfeder (1948, 1952, 1954, 1958) Robert Gordis (1937, 1944, 1948–1952) Albert I. Gordon (1952, 1954) Harold H. Gordon...

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1972

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Medicine & Health Richard Edwin Goodman Engineering Robert Arthur Goodnough Fine Arts Robert Gordis Religion William Edwin Gordon Astronomy—Astrophysics...

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