Rabbi Yuter

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Rabbi Alan J. Yuter
Baltimore, Md.

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Date: May 1, 2007

EARNED ACADEMIC DEGREES:

  • New York University Ph.D. [honors] Hebrew Literature, June 1976, The Problem of Character in the Fiction of M. Y. Berdichevsky, Head of Committee, Prof. Baruch A. Levine, research originally guided by Prof. Shmuel Leiter.
  • Hunter College M.A., Hebrew Literature, January 1972; Minor, Education High School Teaching Certificate, New York State, USA.
  • Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Special Academic Program in Hebrew Literature M.H.L., Rabbinics, Bible, June 1971.
  • Gratz College B.H.L., Bible, Rabbinics, June 1968
  • Temple University B.A., Philosophy, Hebrew, June 1968.

RABBINICAL ORDINATIONS

  • Chief Rabbinate of Israel, S’micha , Rabbi Mordecai Eliyahu, 6 Iyyar, 5749, Examiner, Rabbi Abirjil.
  • Yeshiva University, Special Orthodox Ordination Program under supervision of Rabbi Moshe D. Tendler, RIETS, 1988.
  • Hebrew Theological College S’micha, June 1987, Skokie, Illinois, Rabbi Oscar Z. Fasman.
  • Jewish Theological Seminary of America, June 1973.

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT:

  • Adjunct Faculty, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2010-present
  • Adjunct Faculty, Ann Arundel Community College, 2008-present
  • Adjunct Professor of Hebrew Literature, Baltimore Hebrew University, Fall 2006-Spring 2007.
  • Congregation Bnai Israel, Baltimore Maryland Fall 2005 -
  • Emeritus Rabbi, Congregation Israel, Springfield, New Jersey, Fall 2002-present.
  • Adjunct Faculty, Fairleigh Dickenson University/Institute for Traditional Judaism Joint Program, Fall 2001-present.

SCHOLARLY WRITING (partial list):

  • BOOK: Holocaust and Hebrew Literature: From Genocide to Rebirth, Port Washington: Associated Faculty Press, 1983.
  • SCHOLARLY ARTICLES:
  • Review essay of Avraham Grossman, Pious and Rebellious :Jewish Women in Medieval Europe (Waltham: Brandeis, 2004) in Edah Journal 5:2 (Sivan 5766).
  • “Women in the Judaism of the Dual Torah” The Encyclopaedia of Judaism Volume IV Supplement I, ed, Jacob Neusner, Alan J. Avery -Peck, and William Scott Green (Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2003) 1941-1953.
  • “Musag ha-Herut ba-Torah” [The Concept of Freedom in the Torah] Ha-Darom 74-75 (Tishre 5765) pp.145-150.
  • “Etz Hayim–Torah for our Times: Conservative Judaism’s Spiritual Response to Judaism’s Canon, Midstream 48:4 (May/June 2002), 18-21.
  • “Hora’at Sha’ah: The Emergency Principle in Jeiwsh Law and a Contemporary Application,: Jewish Political Studies Review 13:3-4 (Fall 2001), 3-39.
  • “Thoughts on the Thinking Jew’s Rabbi,” A Review Essay of “Gray Matter: Discourses in Contemporary Halakhah (New Jersey: 2001), in The Edah Journal 2:1 (Tevet 5762).
  • “Biur Mahloqet Yeshiva ba-Sukkah ba-Layla Rishona shel Haq ve-Hashklachotehah ha-Hilkhatiot ve-ha-Hashqafatiyyot [A clarification of the dispute regarding sitting in the Sukkah on the first night of Sukkot and its legal and theoretical consequences] Ha-Darom 71-72 Elul 5761, 43-46.
  • Iyyun be-Din Achila be-Veyt ha-Keneset: Teguvat Baal Iggrot Moshe, ve-Hagadarat Derech Pesaq be-Setirot ben Halakhah Pesuqa u-Ma’asei ha-Am [A study of the law regarding eating in the Synagogue sanctuary, the Reactions of R. Moshe Feinstein, and a definition of his legal method regarding the contradictions between objective law and popular practice] Ha-Darom 71-72 Elul 5761, 47-59.
  • “Ha-Huqiyyut ha-Hashqafatit ha-Muvla’at be-Sippurei Qorah ve-ha-Parah ha-Adumam” [The theological consistency undlerying the Qorah and Red Cow narratives] Ha-Darom 70-71 [Elul 5760], 171-182.
  • “Iyyyun be-Din Achilat Tseli u-Tseli Qeidar ba-Pesah,” [A note on legal status of eating pot roast at the Passover seder meal] Ha-Darom 70-71 [Elul 5760], 120-126.
  • “Person and Property in Jewish Legal Thought,” in ed. Nahum Rakover, Jerusalem: City of Law and Justice, Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on the Sources of Contemporary Law (Jerusalem: Jewish Legal Heritage Society 1998), 287-308.
  • “Ha-Meser ha-Musari shel T”u bi-Shebat: Nittuah Sifruti Iyyuni, [The moral Message of the 15th day of Shebat, a literary analytic study] Ha-Darom 66-67 [Elul 5758], 136-138.
  • “Law, Politics, and Piety in Contemporary Orthodox Debate, in ed., Rela Mintz Geffen and Marsha Bryan Edelman, Freedom and Responsibility: Exploring the Challenges of Jewish Continuity (Hoboken: KTAV, 1998) 161-196.

SCHOLARLY REVIEWS (partial list):

  • Review of Richard Elliot Friedman, “The Hidden Book of the Bible,” (San Francisco: Harper, 1998), in Ten Da’at XIII (Winter 2000).
  • Review of Edward K Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner, Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness (New Haven and London: Yale: 1998) in Tradition 34:1
  • (Spring 2000), 88-92.
  • “A Scholar’s Scholar,” a review of Marc D. Angel, Loving Truth and Peace: The Grand Religious Worldview of Rabbi Bension Uzziel, (Northvale: New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1999), in Midstream 45:7 (November 1999), 46-49.
  • “Where Lies the Truth,” a review of Baila Round Shargel, Lost Love: The Untold Story of Henrietta Szold: Unpublished Letters (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997) Midstream 45:5 (July/August 1999), 42-43.

SCHOLARLY LECTURES (partial list):

  • “The Sexual substrate in Anmim Zemirot,” and the “Religious Ideology of R. Shelomo Amar, Morasha Conference, Teaneck, New Jersey.
  • “The Legal Thought of Emanuel Rackman,” Conference on Modern Orthodoxy, University of Scranton, Scranton, Pa., June 13-15, 2006.
  • “Sefer Devarim: The Biblical Theology of Law, Yemei Iyun on Bible and Jewish Thought, sponsored by YCT Rabbinical School, at Maayanot Yeshiva for Girls, Teaneck, New Jersey, June 27, 2005.
  • “The Halakhic Thought of Rabbi Herschel Schachter,” Fourth International Edah Conference, February 21, 2005, New York, New York.
  • “Teaching Structures in the Teaching of Mishnah,” Conference for Jewish Day School Educators, November 2. 2004, Livingston, New Jersey.
  • Halakhic Issues in Assisted Reproduction,” May 18, 2003, Annual Conference, Union for Traditional Judaism, Teaneck, New Jersey.
  • “Did our Ancestors Respond to Tragedy & Evil: Moses and Job,” Annual Conference, Union for Traditional Judaism, April 28, 2002, Teaneck, New Jersey.
  • “The place of Tradition in the Halakhic Process,” The Halakha and Modernity Seminar in the Halakhic Process, Kraft Hall, Columbia University, 606 West 115th Street, New York, New York, April 14, 2002.
  • “A Halakhic Hermeneutic for Modern Orthodoxy,” Modern Orthodox Forum, December 9, 2001, Baltimore Maryland.
  • “The Literary Program of the Pentateuch, International Conference on Hebrew Language and Literature, June 11, 2001, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, One West 4th Street, New York, New York.
  • “The Image[s] of God in the Hebrew Bible,” Conference of Union for Tradition Judaism, Deberu Emet: Straight Talk on Jerws, Christians, and Secular Society,” Sunday, April 29, 2001, Teaneck, New Jersey.
  • “The Jewish curriculum according to Maimonides and Tosafot, the constructions of reality that they project and prescribe, and their relationship to the Rabbinic canon,” a presentation to the Executive of the Council for Alternatives in Jewish Education, March 12, 2001, Ramada Inn, Newark, NJ.
  • “Maimonides on the Parameters of Halakhic Pluralism,” Sunday, Feburary 18, 2001, and “Diverse Apporaches to the Mitsva of Education, Monday, Feburary 19, 2001, Second Biennial Conference, Edah, Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York, New York.
  • “Halakha as Empowerment,” Conference of JOFA [Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance], New York, New York, February 20, 2000.
  • “Dealing with Orthodox Diversity” and Understanding Intergenerational Diversity,” First New Jersey Regional Edah Conference, Springfield, New Jersey, March 19, 2000.
  • “The Conversion Crises,” Morashah, Union for Traditional Judaism, Teaneck, New Jersey, April 11, 1999.
  • “The Place of Community Usage in Halakhic Hermeneutics,” Tenth Biennial International Conference, sponsored by the Jewish Law Association, August 5, 1998, Ramat Rachel Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

  • Orthodox Forum 1998-2002.
  • American Jewish Historical Society 1997-present.
  • Association for Jewish Outreach Professionals 1990-1994.
  • Rabbinical Council of America 1988-present.
  • Executive Committee 1990-1992.
  • Membership Committee 1989-1992.
  • Chairman, Membership Committee 1990-1992.
  • New York Board of Rabbis 1984-present.
  • Board of Governors 1985-1995.
  • Jewish Law Association 1978-present.
  • National Association for Professors of Hebrew 1975-present.
  • Northeast Modern Language Association 1975-1978
  • Association for Jewish Studies 1973-present.
  • Rabbinical Assembly of America 1973-1987.

POPULAR ARTICLES (partial list):

  • “Choosing to be Jewish,” Review of Rabbi Marc D. Angel, Choosing to be Jewish (Newark: KTAV, 2005), in Jewish Post and Opinion, July 5, 2006, 13.
  • “Munich mirrors Speilberg’s Searching Judaism,” Jewish Post and Opinion, March 1, 2006, p. 7- 18.
  • “What do Jewish Women Really Want,” Jewish Post and Opinion, January 4, 2006, 11,14.
  • “Sharon Quits Likud: How politicians Rule.” Jewish Post and Opinion, December 7, 2005, p. 4.
  • “Torah Judaism and the Sanctity of Sacred Defiance,” Jewish Post and Opinion, June 22, 2005, 8=9. 15.
  • Review of Larry Domnitch, The Cantonists: The Jewish Children’s Army of the Czar (Jerusalem and New York, Devorah Press, 2004) Jewish Post and Opinion, September 29, 2004, 12.
  • “Recognizing the Other”—A review of Arthur Hertzberg, The Fate of Zionism: A Secular Future for Israel and Palestine (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2003), in New Jersey Jewish News, February 12, 2004, 29.
  • Review of One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues that Divide Them, by Ammiel Hirsch and Yosef Reinman, New York, Schicken, 2002, in Jewish Post and Opinion November 5, 2003, and November 12, 2003.
  • “A Jew for all Seasons,” a Review of Arthur Hertzberg, A Jew in America (San Francisco: Harper, 2002), in Jewish Post and Opinion, August 13, 2002, 12-13.
  • “False Orthodox of Extremist Islam,” MetroWest Jewish News August 8, 2002, p. 5 “Bring Back the laws of Herem,” in Jewish Post and Opinion, June 5, 2002, 9-10.
  • Review of Rivka Blau, Learn Torah, Love Torah, Live Torah: Harav Morechai Pinchas Teitz: The Quintessential Rabbi (Hoboken: KTAV, 2001), in Jewish Post and Opinion), December 19, 2001, 15-16.
  • “The Issue Behind the Issue: The Gay Housing Controversy at Yeshiva University, Jewish Post and Opinion, June 13, 2001,9-11.
  • “Reform Rabbi’s Complaint about Legitimacy is seen as hurtful to Jews,” New Jersey News, May 10, 2001, p. 37.
  • “A Call To Courage, a Review of Marc D. Angel, Who Am I, and Who are My People: A Rabbi’s Reflection on the Rabbinate and the Jewish Community (Hoboken: KTAV, 2001), Jewish Post and Opinion, April 25, 2001, 8-10.
  • “The Menora Divide: Which Side Must Practice Pluralism? ” Metrowest Jewish News, January 11, 2001, 32.
  • “Who Is or Isn’t an Ethical Jew,” a review of Walter S. Wurzberger. Approaches to Covenental Ethics, (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994), in Jewish Post and Opinion, December 13, 2000, 15-16.
  • “The Pope in Jerusalem: Why the Jews Are not Happy,” Midstream 46:4 (May/June 2000), 22-23.
  • “The Pope’s Apology,” in New Jersey Jewish News (April 20, 2000) 33.
  • “The Holocaust: Two Views,” a review of Bernhard H. Rosenberg and Chaim Z. Rozwaski, Contemplating the Holocaust (Northvale, NJ and Jerusalem: Jason
  • Aronson, 1999) in Jewish Post and Opinion, April 19,2000, 8-9,14.
  • “Mentor’s Work Honors ‘The Rav,’” a review of Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Hoboken: KTAV, 1999), In Jewish Post and Opinion, March 22, 2000, 8-10, and March 29, 2000, 8-10.
  • “Should dictates of the past be followed be followed blindly,” Jewish Post and Opinion, January 19, 2000, 8-9.
  • “Anti-Semitism: An Ancient Problem with a Contemporary Face,” New Jersey Jewish News, September 9, 1999, 41.
  • “Dressing Up for the Holidays,” New Jersey News August 26, 1999, S16.
  • “On Saying ‘I’m Sorry,” Jewish Spectator’” 64:1 (Summer 1999) 38-39.
  • “Our Parents Should Teach Us to apply their ideas to our World,” New Jersey Jewish News 6/17/99, 37.
  • “Is Present Judaism Conducive to Survival?” Jewish Post and Opinion, July 7, 1999, 1-2.
  • “At War With Torah,” review of Daniel Lapin, America’s Real War (Sisters: Oregon, Multonumah, 1999), in Jewish Post and Opinion, February 24, 1999, 15-16.
  • “The Zionist Dream: Reality and the Threat of Nightmare,” in Midstream 44:7 November. December 1998) 14-15.
  • “Conflicting Challenges are Testing Orthodoxy,” Jewish Post and Opinion, August 21, 1998. 1.12.
  • Review of Arthur Hertzberg and Aron Hirt-Manheimer Jews: The Essence and
  • Character of a People (Harper: San Francisco, 1998) , Jewish Post and Opinion, July 1, 1998, 8-9,14, and reprinted with permission as “In Praise of Pious Subversives,” in Jewish Sentinel, August 14, 1998, 12,16.
  • Review of Allen Nadler, “The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hassidic Rapture,” (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997), in Jewish Post and Opinion July 29, 1998), 15-16.
  • “Finding Common Ground among Three Denominations, MetroWest Jewish news June 18, 1998, 34.
  • ‘”Historian Views the U.S. As ‘Haven,’” review of Abraham Karp, A History of the Jews in America (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997) in Jewish Post and Opinion, February 25, 1998), 25.
  • “There is a Way, There is a Solution,” [an analysis of the Ne'eman Report], in Jewish Post and Opinion, February 11, 1998, pp. 1, 8-10.
  • “Orthodox Community must do what it must to keep the Peace,” MetroWest Jewish News, January 29, 1998, 33-34.

HONORS:

  1. Distinguished Alumnus Award, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University March 31, 1997.
  2. Distinguished Alumnus Award, Gratz College, September 7, 1996.
  3. Torah Community Award, Yeshivas Tiferes Baruch 16 Adar, 5754/ February 27, 1994.
  4. Who’s Who Worldwide, 1993/4.
  5. Community Service Award, National Conference of Synagogue Youth, New Jersey Region, November 4, 1990.
  6. Community Service Award, Israel Bonds, Rockland County, 1986.
  7. N.Y.U. Ph.D. awarded with distinction June 1986.
  8. N.Y.U. Tuition Remission Grant 1974-1975.
  9. N.Y.U. Graduate Fellowship 1974-1975.
  10. Hunter College Tuition Grant for Graduate Study Winter 1971.
  11. Jewish Theological Seminary: June 1971: Hymanson Prize in Codes, Rosenberg Prize in Hebrew Literature, Sheitlist Prize in Medieval Hebrew Literature.
  12. Gratz College, Rubin Prize in Bible, June 1968.
  13. Temple University, Eta Beta Rho, Hebrew Honor Society State of Israel Hebrew Prize June 1968.
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