Carl Viniar and Edmond Weiss on alternative study for the rabbinate

The guests today, Edmond Weiss, a retired communications professor, and Carl Viniar, a mediator and former attorney, are both undertaking alternative studies that lead to rabbinic ordination. Viniar is studying to become a rabbinic pastor, and Weiss is studying in an online rabbinic seminary. 

In the second half of the show, Rabbi Address speaks with Udi Bar-David, a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra who has started ArtTolerance, a new initiative for dialogue to break down cultural barriers, and Rabbi Lee Lerner, who has just authored a novel, The Mossad Messiah.