Until 2006, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch was chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, which is the leading academic and rabbinical training institute for Conservative Judaism. Which is all the more reason to be surprised, even shocked, by what he says in this interview with Peter Beinart. You have to understand the position of the JTS within American, even international Jewry, and the rabbinate it produces, to grapple with the full weight of Rabbi Schorsch’s statement. And know that he’s now 89 years old, and what it must be like, to have lived a full Jewish life to that age, to have survived and been a refugee from Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany, to have created this world of rabbinic Judaism in the […]
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Jews, Palestine and Israel
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Tags Amos, Ezekiel, Foreigner, Gaza, Isaiah, Jewish Theological Seminary, Kristallnacht, Mishna, Peter Beinart, Prophets, Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Roberta Flack, Yom Kippur
Here’s an excellent piece about how Amazon requires even its temporary employees to sign non-compete clauses that last a year and a half after their employment ends. The piece got me thinking a bit about employment contracts versus the covenant at Sinai (it’s Passover time). There are a lot of problems with contracts with employers, which Chris Bertram, Alex Gourevitch, and I explored in our “Let It Bleed” post at Crooked Timber three years ago. Among them are the imbalance of power between the two contracting parties and the fact that no employment contract can spell out all the terms of employment; there are just too many unknowns, both known and unknown, at the workplace. Interestingly, the covenant at Sinai, the […]