David Ellenson, leading Jewish scholar and former HUC president, dies at 76
Ellenson helped shape the Reform movement during his tenure as president of Hebrew Union College
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Yiddish כ׳בענק נאָך די וועלטלעכע ייִדן וואָס האָבן אָפּגעריכט אַ טראַדיציאָנעלן סדר Longing for those secular Jews who led a traditional seder
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