Reconsidering Yizkor
I grew up in The Jacksonville Jewish Center, at the time a pretty traditional Conservative shul. The rabbi was a rebel from the yeshiva world, drawn into Conservative Judaism in part by the writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel. He would regularly give 20 minute introductions to the Shabbat Torah reading. Before Musaf he would preach for 40 minutes citing Jewish texts and secular sources with equal ease. The cantor fled Austria before 1938, a graduate of Vienna’s famed Conservat
