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Lance J. Sussman

Lance J. Sussman is Rabbi Emeritus of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel and the immediate past Chair of the Board of Governors of Gratz College. He recently published a collection of his sermons, Portrait of An American Rabbi: In His Own Words (2023).

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Lance J. Sussman

The American religious landscape that Uzi Rebhun sketches out in his new book, Jews and the American Religious Landscape, is marked by virtually boundless freedom and pluralism, as well as increasing fragmentation, due to the growth of “self-searching and religiosity by choice.”