PESIKAH AND AMERICAN REFORM RESPONSA

The appointment of a third chairman, Jacob Mann, may have represented an effort on the part of the appointing president to limit the scope of the Responsa Committee or to remove it from the intense debates of the thirties. Intentionally or accidentally this certainly succeeded.

If we look at the committee in 1940 we find it moribund with an uncertain future. However, the nature of Reform Judaism

had changed and the quiet half decade belied the more vigorous future which lay ahead. It wil be discussed in a subsequent essay.

1. July 17, 1810 2. December 11, 1817

3. Alexander Guttmann, The Struggle of Over Reform in Rabbinic Literature , p. 3 ff.

4. Central Conference of American Rabbis Yearbook, New York , 1906 pp. 61 ff.

5. Central Conference of American Rabbis Yearbook, New York , 1907 pp. 122

6. W. Jacob,(ed.) American Reform Responsa, New York , pp. 81

7. Central Conference of American Rabbis Yearbook, New York , 1919, pp. 75

8. W. Jacob,(ed.) American Reform Responsa, New York , pp. 131 ff.