Vignettes for Panel Discussion. Case 1: The Federation has invited the local rabbis from all religious streams to plan and participate in a program entitled “A Day of Jewish Learning.” The idea of the program is to have each of the rabbis teach three classes on topics of their choice and invite the community to sit in on whichever classes they desire to attend. You have been asked to participate, will you? What are the factors which enter into your analysis of this situation? Does it matter who sponsors the event? Does it matter where the event is held? What if the Orthodox and non-Orthodox rabbis will be teaching the same subject and the audience will rotate so that different views on a single topic are presented?CASE 2: As an avid reader of the Israeli press, you have noted that there have been several articles of late about non-Orthodox rabbinical students’ desire to pray at the Kotel in the way in which they are accustomed, but which is not within halakhic parameters. They argue that the Kotel belongs to the entire Jewish People, so why shouldn’t they be allowed access to pray at this holy site? On a visit to Israel you are at the Kotel and these very students are beginning to get together to pray. How do you analyze their behavior? What is your reaction? Several yeshiva boys begin to yell at the students, cursing them, throwing things at them, and chasing them away. What do you do? When you return to America you see that much of the American Jewish community is talking about the “disgraceful” behavior of the yeshiva boys. Do you respond? How? In reaction to what they perceive as an attack on Orthodoxy, a rabbi publishes a statement that anything outside the pale of halakhic Judaism is not Judaism at all. How do you react to this public statement? How do you react to the reaction of the many non-Orthodox American Jews who feel they’ve just been told they are not practicing Judaism when they go to pray at their synagogues?CASE 3: You are the principal of an Orth…