Background
Bial, Morrison David was born on August 29, 1917 in New York City. Son of Jacob and Carrie Bial.
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What do Reform Jews believe about birth control, abortion, circumcision, cremation, fast days, family planning? What are the customary practices of Reform Judaism in the home? How do they differ from those of traditional Judaism? And what are the criteria of Reform Jewish practice anyway! The author has provided practical answers with a guidebook in the spirit of Reform Judaism. In Liberal Judaism at Home he acquaints the modem reader with traditional Jewish customs and how they came about; how Liberal Jews have selected among these and observe them today - and how some of the practices differ from those of Orthodox Judaism. Written in a lively style, the guidebook explores every aspect of Jewish living - the complete life cycle from birth through burial and mourning, including circumcision, religious school study, consecration, Bar and Bat Mitzvah, confirmation, engagement and marriage (with such sidelights as the dowry, mikveh, to break or not to break the glass), conversion, divorce, kashrut, the mezuzah, yarmulka, etc., etc.; with some fifty pages on the Jewish calendar, home observance of the Sabbath (lighting the candles, blessing one's children, the Kiddush, Havdalah, etc.), the High Holy Days, and other Jewish festivals ("two days or one?") and the fasts.
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Bial, Morrison David was born on August 29, 1917 in New York City. Son of Jacob and Carrie Bial.
Graduate, City University of New York. Master Hebrew Letters, Jewish Institute Religion, 1946. Postgraduate, Princeton Theological Seminary.
Doctor of Divinity, Hebrew Union College, 1970.
Rabbi, Temple Sinai, Summit, New Jersey, 1953-1985;
rabbi, Temple Beth Shalom, Ocala, Florida, since 1985. Past teacher School Education Hebrew Union College. Leader group tours, Israel.
Teacher Torah, Center College American Rabbis. Lecturer in field; visiting scholar at various synagogues and churches, worldwide.
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Married Dorothy Berman, 1954. Children: Anne Bial Ehrenkranz, Daniel.