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David B. Starr

David B. Starr served as Charles Bronfman Chair in Jewish Studies at Brandeis University in 2010–2011. He is the former vice president of Hebrew College and founding dean of its adult Jewish learning program Me’ah. He founded Tzion, a program to teach the history and ideas of Zionism and Israel, teaches at Gann Academy, and is completing a biography of Solomon Schechter.

December 11, 2013

Building a Sukkah and the Call to Transcendence

David B. Starr

David Starr says that Gordis asked the right question, but the answer may be harder than he thinks.

December 11, 2013

A Movement Strikes Back

Noah Benjamin Bickart, Elliot N. Dorff, Susan Grossman, Judith Hauptman, Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Jonathan D. Sarna, David B. Starr, Gordon Tucker

Seven leaders and a historian respond to Daniel Gordis’ “Requiem for a Movement.”

Spring 2013

Schechter’s Seminary

David B. Starr

Solomon Schechter is remembered as the founder of Conservative Judaism—but who are his religious heirs?