Stone, Ira F.

Ira F. Stone is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, The University of Judaism in Los Angeles and the Jewish theological Seminary of America in New York, where he was ordained as a Rabbi in 1979. He has served congregations in Seattle, Washington and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he has been at Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel since 1988. He is also a visiting lecturer in Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is the author of two books of Jewish thought, Seeking the Path to Life (Jewish Lights Publishing, 1993) and Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud (Jewish Publication Society, 1998). He has published articles on Jewish thought and philosophy in a variety of journals. Rabbi Stone has been writing poetry since childhood and has published poetry in a variety of journals.