Rabbi Herman Schaalman, Longtime Reform Movement Leader, Dies at 100
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Rabbi Herman Schaalman, a longtime leader in the Reform movement, died on Wednesday at the age of 100.
In 1952, Schaalman founded and became the first director of the URJ Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Wisconsin, the first of the URJ camps. There are now 18 URJ camps across the country, making it the largest Jewish camping program in the world. As an alumna of URJ camp GUCI (the other URJ camp in the Midwest) myself, I can personally attest to movement’s power to strengthen Jewish connection and identity.
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