PRAISE

The following quotes have been taking wildly out of context. Welcome to the internet.

 

“As I have come to know David, I have realized that he tells it the way he sees it and pulls no punches.”

-Matt Grob, Limmud NY Board

 

“If given a choice between praying in a minyan with David Wilensky (who I’ve never actually met) as the ShaTz, and praying with a congregation with a fully invested cantor who has a voice like Pavorati, I gotta tell you I’m going to go daven with David, even if his claim is true that he can’t carry a tune.”

-Randi Thompson, iWorship listerve

 

“What you’re essentially doing with your blog is creating a Zagat Rating for syngogues. You should give out a sticker.”

-Jesse Paikin, cool person

 

“With the help of Rabbis Sarason, Geringer, Washofsky, and the various contributors to ccarnet.org, I now align myself as a Wilensky-ite.”

“I can hardly wait to read the comments on this blog post from our resident liturgy wonk, David A.M. Wilensky.  Without having his scholarship or analytic skills at my disposal, I can only share that I am left-handed, and politically left-wing, but when it comes to Mishkan T’filah, and in fact to liturgy in general, I veer to the right.”

“David Wilensky [...] ALWAYS askes himself and the [iWorship listserve] the right questions, and always insists that they be answered in the light  of Jewish sources.  We don’t necessarily arrive at the same answer, but I think David respects my answers as much as I respect his.”

-Larry Kaufman, North American Board of the Union for Reform Judaism, National Board of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, Executive Committee of the World Union for Progressive Judaism’s North American Council, other impressive things, etc.

 

“David A.M. Wilensky [is a] RJ.org blogger, Kutz Campus regular and liturgy-wonk.”

-Donald Cohen-Culter, former Rosh Communication for the Union for Reform Judaism.

“David, I know a god-given talent when I see one. Your passion, verve and zest (pun intended) makes Rosh Tzueezing [for Tzedakah] not just a job, but your birthright… Amen.”

-Melissa “Fireball” Frey Goldman, Director of NFTY and the URJ Kutz Camp