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Imagining the Jewish Future
Essays and Responses
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David A. Teutsch - Editor
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Price: $55.50
Hardcover - 290 pages |
| Release Date: November 1992 |
ISBN10: 0-7914-1167-2
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-1167-4
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Price: $31.95
Paperback - 290 pages |
| Release Date: November 1992 |
ISBN10: 0-7914-1168-0
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-1168-1
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| Summary |
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"This book is exciting. It brims with spiritual, intellectual, and practical vigor. The variety of essayists and the interaction among writers gives the reader a sense of involvement in a stimulating colloquium." -- Baruch Frydman-Kohl, Congregation Ohav Shalom
During a time of rapid change in the American Jewish community, an outstanding group of Jewish scholars and professionals address the critical problems and future prospects of American Jewry. They discuss the sharp controversies over feminism and religious language, new data on the relationship between Israelis and American Jews, and the interaction between family and synagogue. The wide scope of topics provides an understanding of the dynamics shaping the lives of American Jews and their diverse views of the future.
Rabbi Teutsch is Professor and Executive Vice President at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of Kol Haneshamah.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
David A. Teutsch
Section I. Religion and Theology
1. God, Prayer, and Religious Language
Essay:
Arthur Green
Response:
Judith Plaskow
2. Tradition and Religious Practice
Essay:
Deborah E. Lipstadt
Responses:
Michael Paley
Everett Gendler
Section II. Culture and Education
3. Jewish Education: Crisis and Vision
Essay:
Jonathan Woocher
Responses:
Kathy Green
Joseph Reimer
4. Creativity and Community: The Jewish Artist's Experience
Essay:
Marcia Falk
Responses:
Richard A. Siegel
Omus Hirshbein
5. Jewish Literacy: Will More and More Be Known
by Fewer and Fewer?
Essay:
Hillel Levine
Response:
Rela Geffen Monson
Section III. Israel and World Jewry
6. Are American and Israeli Jews Drifting Apart?
Essay:
Steven M. Cohen
Response:
Martin J. Raffel
7. Facing the Jewish Future
Essay:
Philip M. Klutznick
Section IV. Family, Community, and Morality
8. Jewish Family Ethics in a Post-halakhic Age
Essay:
Martha A. Ackelsberg
Responses:
Esther Ticktin
Elliot N. Dorff
9. The Coming Reformation in American Jewish Identity
Essay:
Egon Mayer
Responses:
Richard J. lsrael
Deborah Dash Moore
10. Social Justice: Reenvisioning Our Vision
Essay:
Arthur Waskow
Response:
David A. Wortman
11. The Synagogue and Caring Community
Essay:
Lawrence Kushner
Responses:
Burt Jacobson
Lee Friedlander
Section V. An Integrated Vision
12. Theology and Community
Essay:
Arnold Eisen
Response:
Jacob J. Staub
Notes
Authors' Biographies
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