Byron Sherwin, Jewish scholar-ethicist, dies

Rabbi Byron Sherwin, a Jewish scholar and ethicist who served on the faculty of Chicago’s Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership for more than 40 years, has died.

Sherwin died on May 22 following a long illness at the age of 69.

He served as Distinguished Service Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs at the Spertus Institute and had been on its faculty since 1970.

Sherwin, who graduated from Columbia University, earned his doctorate in the History of Culture from the University of. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he studied under Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Sherwin studied Jewish philosophy, mysticism and Jewish ethics, and was involved in interreligious dialogue, and was the author of dozens of books and articles on the subjects.

— JTA