David-Seth Kirshner is the rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in Closter, New Jersey.
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner
By Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner
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Dear Jodi and the Forward Family: I am writing to express my disappointment in your story about Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s contract. In my opinion, it is a feeble attempt at a salacious and irrelevant angle to what was a moment of fright and ultimately, Jewish unity. Clergy people change jobs. Some often. They do so…
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