National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) is a leadership training institute, think tank, and resource center. It is an inter-disciplinary and inter-denominational movement, in which rabbis from all major Jewish denominations in North America participate. The organization is described by The Jewish Daily Forward as a "think-tank dedicated to questions of Jewish identity and religious practice...in its quest to expand the boundaries of Jewish communal life".{{cite web|accessdate=2009-07-30|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/7159/|title=‘Rabbi Cool’ and Rock Opera Draw Stars, Upscale Spiritualists|publisher=The Jewish Daily Forward}}
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield presently serves as the president of CLAL.[http://www.newsweek.com/2009/04/03/50-influential-rabbis.html "50 Influential Rabbis"], Newsweek, April 30, 2009.[http://www.clal.org/cms/node/43 "CLAL Faculty, Fellows and Associates"] at CLAL website (accessed June 18, 2010).
Rabbi [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elan-babchuck/ Elan Babchuck] is the Executive Vice President.
Etymology
CLAL is an acronym formed from the organization's English language name (Center for Leadership and Learning). It is also a transliteration of a Hebrew word that can mean community, as in the expression "Klal Yisrael" which refers to the Jewish people as a whole. It is intended to suggest the organization's stated mission to serve as a center of interdenominational cooperation in American Judaism.{{cite web|title=Kabbalah-based course offers steps to fulfillment|url=https://www.jlicentral.com/news.php?task=fullstory&NID=114|accessdate=9 October 2014}}
History
CLAL was founded in 1974 by Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, and [http://rabbiirvinggreenberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CLAL-News-and-Perspective_New-Era_red.pdf Rabbi Steven Shaw].
Programs
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External links
- [http://www.clal.org National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership]
- [http://search.bjpa.org/search?client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&filter=0&getfields=*&q=CLAL++the+National+Jewish+Center+for+Learning+and+Leadership&partialfields=publisher:CLAL.publisher:the.publisher:National.publisher:Jewish.publisher:Center.publisher:for.publisher:Learning.publisher:Leadership&num=100&lind=0&ie=UTF-8&ip=128.122.242.154&access=p&entqr=3&oe=UTF-8&ud=1&sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1 Clal publications] on the Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner
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