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July 27, 2026
Let Athens dwell in the tents of Jerusalem.
Born in San Francisco, Judah L. Magnes (1877–1948) was a prominent Reform rabbi in the U.S. who went on to serve as the first chancellor of Hebrew University. Leon Morris examines Magnes’s religious thought, his attempt to found a Jerusalem synagogue with Henrietta Szold (the founder of Hadassah), and his ideas about universalism—which he “believed in passionately.”
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Let Athens dwell in the tents of Jerusalem.
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Born in San Francisco, Judah L. Magnes (1877–1948) was a prominent Reform rabbi in the U.S. who went on to serve as the first chancellor of Hebrew University. Leon Morris examines Magnes’s religious thought, his attempt to found a Jerusalem synagogue with Henrietta Szold (the founder of Hadassah), and his ideas about universalism—which he “believed in passionately.”
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