Notes:

Rabbi Ehrlich received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University (1969) and was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion/Cincinnati in 1974. He served as Assistant to the Dean, Associate Dean, and Acting Dean at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati (1974-1979); Associate Rabbi, United Hebrew Congregation, St. Louis, Missouri (1979-1983); and Rabbi, Temple Beth Aaron and Scholar in Judaic Studies, Eastern Montana University (now Montana State University in Billings), Billings, Montana (1983-1985). He returned to HUC-JIR in 1985 as Director of the Rabbinical School, Director of Homiletics, and Dean HUC-JIR.

He has written articles, reviews, and review essays on subjects in American Jewish History and Culture, American Jewish Humor, American Jewish Literature, and Homiletics, and is in the process of completing his book on Jewish Preaching and Classical Rhetoric. For the past 25 years, he has conducted High Holy Day services in small congregations and Hillels throughout the country. An avid fly fisherman, he teaches fly casting, fly tying, and a course on “Fly Fishing in American Literature.”

He and his wife, Mary Silva, are the parents of Chris, a graphic design artist, who lives in Lexington, KY, with his wife Rosemary; Lauren, completing her Ph.D. in Counseling at Virginia Tech. in Blacksburg, VA, where her husband, Michael, is Professor of Architecture, and their two children, Zachery (age 6) and Miles (age 4) are gaining proficiency in reading, arithmetic, spelling, and soccer; and Sara, who just completed her M.S. in nursing at DePaul University in Chicago, and will soon begin work in Emergency Medicine at a Chicago hospital.

Family/Spouse: Miss. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lauren S. EHRLICH was born about 1974.

Family/Spouse: Mary T. SILVA. Mary (daughter of Charles Eugene SILVA, Sr. and Elizabeth C.) was born about 1946. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Sylvia TRATTNER. Sylvia was born on 2 Apr 1923; died on 30 Oct 2018; was buried in Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, Chesterfield, St Louis, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]