Author : Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Judaism
ISBN :
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Approaches to Modern Judaism
Author : Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2020-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781946527936
To Do the Right and the Good
Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827607743
A National Jewish Book Award Winner Rabbi Dorff focuses on the social aspects of the Jewish tradition, while tackling such timely topics as poverty, war, intrafaith and interfaith relations, and forgiveness. In addition, he discusses Jewish social ethics as they both relate to and contrast with Christian and American belief systems in modern society. Dorff argues that Jewish sources, when properly placed within the framework of the realities of our own times, can provide important guidance for Jews on how to act in their daily lives.
Tolerance and Transformation
Author : Sandra B. Lubarsky
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0878201440
In the last twenty-five years, the effort to understand the ways of others has reinvigorated religious discussion on many levels. We have entered what has been described as the "Age of Dialogue." But what should be the nature of such dialogue? And what should be its goal? What exactly is the proper relationship between different communities of faith? In this book, Sandra B. Lubarsky offers some new answers to these timely questions. She begins with an affirmation of "veridical pluralism," the position that more than one tradition "speaks truth" - a "blessed fact" that enables us to enlarge our vision of truth through openness to the perceptions of others. Using the concept of "transformative dialogue" (a term borrowed from the theologian John B. Cobb, Jr.), she presents a method for the encounter of traditions in an age of religious pluralism - one which entails neither a loss of particularity nor a descent into relativism. In a Jewish contexts, Lubarsky argues that the Noachide Covenant, the premodern Jewish approach to non-Jews, is an inadequate framework for today's dialogue since it accords no independent value to any non-Jewish tradition. She then gives serious attention to the interreligious views of four seminal modern Jewish thinkers: Leo Baeck, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Mordecai Kaplan. Acknowledging our tremendous intellectual debt to them, she nevertheless calls for a move beyond tolerance and beyond mutual appreciation toward dialogue that may be transformative of our own traditions.
Judaism in America
Author : Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231120609
This book is about the beliefs, doctrines, history, institutions, and leaders of the Jewish religious community. It is based on historical evidence as well as interviews and direct observation of about 100 synagogues in the country and presents a full portrait of a religious tradition that comprises only two percent of America's population but has a large influence on American culture.
Modern Judaism
Author : Nicholas de Lange
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2005-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191532320
A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, multi-authored guide to contemporary Jewish life and thought, focusing on social, cultural and historical aspects of Judaism alongside theological issues. This volume includes 38 newly-commissioned essays, including contributions from leading specialists in their fields. This book covers the major areas of thought in contemporary Jewish Studies, including considerations of religious differences, sociological, philosophical, and gender issues, geographical diversity, inter-faith relations, and the impact of the Shoah (the Holocaust) and the modern state of Israel.
Modern Conservative Judaism
Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827613873
A major Conservative movement leader of our time, Elliot N. Dorff provides a personal, behind-the-scenes guide to the evolution of Conservative Jewish thought and practice over the last half century. His candid observations concerning the movement's ongoing tension between constancy and change shed light on the sometimes unified, sometimes diverse, and occasionally contentious reasoning behind the modern movement's most important laws, policies, and documents. Meanwhile, he has assembled, excerpted, and contextualized the most important historical and internal documents in modern Conservative movement history for the first time in one place, enabling readers to consider and compare them all in context. In "Part 1: God" Dorff explores various ways that Conservative Jews think about God and prayer. In "Part 2: Torah" he considers different approaches to Jewish study, law, and practice; changing women's roles; bioethical rulings on issues ranging from contraception to cloning; business ethics; ritual observances from online minyanim to sports on Shabbat; moral issues from capital punishment to protecting the poor; and nonmarital sex to same-sex marriage. In "Part 3: Israel" he examines Zionism, the People Israel, and rabbinic rulings in Israel.
Approaches to Modern Judaism
Author : Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Doing Jewish Theology
Author : Neil Gillman
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580234399
With clarity and passion, noted theologian Neil Gillman explores the importance of community, symbol and myth in evolution of Jewish thought and reveals extraordinary insights into the purpose of religion, our relationship with God and Jewish identity.
Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History
Author : Zev Eleff
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827612575
Modern Orthodox Judaism offers an extensive selection of primary texts documenting the Orthodox encounter with American Judaism that led to the emergence of the Modern Orthodox movement. Many texts in this volume are drawn from episodes of conflict that helped form Modern Orthodox Judaism. These include the traditionalists’ response to the early expressions of Reform Judaism, as well as incidents that helped define the widening differences between Orthodox and Conservative Judaism in the early twentieth century. Other texts explore the internal struggles to maintain order and balance once Orthodox Judaism had separated itself from other religious movements. Zev Eleff combines published documents with seldom-seen archival sources in tracing Modern Orthodoxy as it developed into a structured movement, established its own institutions, and encountered critical events and issues—some that helped shape the movement and others that caused tension within it. A general introduction explains the rise of the movement and puts the texts in historical context. Brief introductions to each section guide readers through the documents of this new, dynamic Jewish expression.