I Will Not Let You Go Until You Bless Me: Memoirs of a Reform Rabbi

These post-retirement memoirs of one of New England's leading Reform rabbis critically, humorously, and with searching honesty examine the broad and at times frustrating spectrum of the modern-day Reform rabbinate. Rabbi Silver, the sixth generation in the Silver family's rabbinic line, brings to these memoirs a half-century of rich and diverse experience. He has occupied all the rungs of the rabbinic ladder from an assistant associateship at Congregation Rodef Sholom in Pittsburgh through his solo rabbinate at Pittsburgh's Temple Emanuel of the South Hills, and, for a quarter of a century, Beth Israel, in West Hartford, Connecticut. In his retirement, Silver has remained closely involved with Beth Israel as rabbi emeritus, working behind the scenes with two eminent successors. These compelling memoirs honestly dissect what is wrong, harmful, inadequate, and religiously counterproductive in trying to promote the best of liberal Judaism on behalf of Jews and non-Jews as both Reform Judaism and the non-Reform denominations work through vast and controversial changes.Harold S. Silver is the author of 'I Will Not Let You Go Until You Bless Me: Memoirs of a Reform Rabbi' with ISBN 9780881257298 and ISBN 088125729X.