Jules Harlow (born June 28, 1931) is an American Conservative Jewish rabbi and liturgist. Son of Henry and Lena Lipman Harlow, he was born in Sioux City, Iowa.

In 1952 he earned a B.A. at Morningside College in Sioux City, and from there went to New York City to study at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1959. He then became a staff member of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international organization of rabbis in Conservative Judaism.[1]

He soon began work as a liturgist on the RA's prayerbook committee, working with Rabbi Gershon Hadas on new siddurim (Jewish prayerbooks) for use in Conservative congregations. Under Hadas's editorship, they printed the Weekday Prayer Book in 1961. He took a greater role by editing and translating the movement's mahzor (prayerbook for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) which was published in 1972.[2] He soon became the chief liturgist for the Conservative movement,[3] and was the editor of Siddur Sim Shalom in 1985. Siddur Sim Shalom became the prototype for a family of later Conservative siddurim, including Siddur Sim Shalom for Shabbat and Yom Tov, Siddur Sim Shalom for Weekdays and Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom. Among his other publishing activities within Conservative Judaism is his work as literary editor on the Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary.[4]

Harlow, together with his wife Navah, has played a role in the cause of the Bnei Anusim (descendants of crypto-Jews) in Lisbon, Portugal.[5]

His son David Harlow is a lawyer[6] and his daughter Ilana Harlow is a folklorist.[7]

References

  1. ↑ The Rabbinical Assembly Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur:Rabbinical Assembly, a prayer book for the Days of Awe 1978
  3. ↑ Jewish Virtual Library, entry on The Rabbinical Assembly drawn from Encyclopaedia Judaica https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/rabassembly.html
  4. ↑ Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary, Ed. David Lieber, Jules Harlow, Chaim Potok and Harold Kushner, The Jewish Publication Society, NY, 2001
  5. ↑ Rabbi Jules and Navah Harlow report on their recent trip to Lisbon & Madrid Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Home". healthblawg.com.
  7. ↑ "New York Folklore Society Newsletter". www.nyfolklore.org. Archived from the original on 2000-10-03.
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