One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them

Ammiel Hirsch is the senior rabbi at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York. He earlier served as executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America. Hirsch also earned a law degree from the London School of Economics. Yosef Reinman is an Orthodox rabbi, historian, and translator, living in New Jersey. His study of Talmudic contractual law is a standard yeshiva text. Under the name Avner Gold, Reinman has also written the Ruach Ami series, on the lives of Jews in the seventeenth century.

Ammiel Hirsch is the senior rabbi at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York. He earlier served as executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America. Hirsch also earned a law degree from the London School of Economics. Yosef Reinman is an Orthodox rabbi, historian, and translator, living in New Jersey. His study of Talmudic contractual law is a standard yeshiva text. Under the name Avner Gold, Reinman has also written the Ruach Ami series, on the lives of Jews in the seventeenth century.