Robert Gordis

Robert Gordis (1908-1992) - Founder of the first Conservative day school, former President of the Rabbinical Assembly and of the Synagogue Council of America, and professor at JTS from 1940 to 1992. He wrote one of the first pamphlets explaining Conservative ideology in 1946, and in 1988 he chaired the Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism which produced the official statement of Conservative ideology "Emet Ve-Emunah".

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