Jules Harlow
Template:Short description Template:Sources Template:Use mdy dates Julius Edwin Harlow (June 28, 1931 – February 12, 2024) was an American Conservative rabbi and liturgist.
BirthEdit
Harlow was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to Henry and Lena Harlow (Template:Nee Lipman) in 1931.<ref name = Goldman>Template:Cite news</ref>
CareerEdit
In 1952, he earned a B.A. at Morningside University (then Morningside College) in Sioux City, and from there went to New York City to study at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he received his semikhah—his rabbinical ordination—in 1959.<ref name = Goldman/> He then became a staff member of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the international organization of rabbis in Conservative Judaism.<ref>The Rabbinical Assembly Template:Webarchive</ref>
Harlow 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 the editorship of Hadas, the two printed the Weekday Prayer Book in 1961. Harlow took a greater role by editing and translating the movement's mahzor (the siddur Jews use specifically for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayers) which was published in 1972.<ref>Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur:Rabbinical Assembly, a prayer book for the Days of Awe 1978</ref> He soon became the chief liturgist for the Conservative movement,<ref> Jewish Virtual Library, entry on The Rabbinical Assembly drawn from Encyclopaedia Judaica. Accessed February 21, 2024.</ref> 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. His other publishing activities within Conservative Judaism included being a literary editor on the Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary.<ref>Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary, Ed. David Lieber, Jules Harlow, Chaim Potok and Harold Kushner, The Jewish Publication Society, NY, 2001.</ref>
Harlow, together with his wife Navah, worked with the Masorti Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, beginning in 2005 for the cause of the Bnei Anusim (descendants of crypto-Jews) in and of the Iberian Peninsula.<ref>Rabbi Jules and Navah Harlow report on their recent trip to Lisbon & Madrid Template:Webarchive</ref>
Personal life and deathEdit
Harlow and his wife had two children.<ref name = Goldman/> His son, David, is a lawyer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and his daughter, Ilana, is a folklorist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Harlow died from pneumonia on February 12, 2024, at the age of 92.<ref name = Goldman/><ref>Rabbi Jules Harlow, editor of the prayer book used in Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, dies at 92, jta.org. Accessed February 21, 2024.</ref>