Wagner, Stanley M.

Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence of Raphael Jospe, Belle Marcus, Stanley Wagner, and Uri Neil of the Center for Judaic Studies from 1975-1985. Also, introductory speech by Miriam Gottesfeld at Center for Judaic Studies' Bar Mitzvah in 1988.

Abstract Some of the Jewish congregations in Denver were members of the Denver Rabbinical Council. In 1978, a Rabbinic Conversion Board was established consisting of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Rabbis. The communal conversion board stressed education and the sincerity of the conversion applicant. The Rabbinical Council of America strongly opposed the inclusion of Conservative and Reform rabbis and by 1984, the Denver Conversion Program was dissolved. The file contains proposals,...