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Leonard Fein
1934–2014
Leonard Fein was a Boston-based journalist, educator, and activist. In 1974 he founded Moment magazine with Elie Wiesel. Fein was also the founder of Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy. A liberal Zionist and active Reform Jew, he was a columnist for the Forward.
Content by Leonard Fein
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Seeking the Jewish Tradition
Is the Jewish tradition inherently liberal or inherently conservative? The answer to this much-debated question is quite simple: yes.
Which is to say that if by “the Jewish tradition” we mean what is…