Universalism and Jewish Values
Author | : Michael Walzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780876410059 |
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Author | : Michael Walzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780876410059 |
Author | : Joseph S. Nye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Acquisition of property |
ISBN | : 9780876411612 |
Author | : Svante Lundgren |
Publisher | : Global Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781586841058 |
Explores how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.
Author | : Israel Abrahams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Jewish ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD |
Publisher | : Jewish Lights Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-08-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1580237835 |
Why be Jewish? A fascinating dialogue across denominations of the High Holy Days and their message of Jewish purpose beyond mere survival. Almost forty contributors from three continents—men and women, scholars and poets, rabbis and theologians, representing all Jewish denominations and perspectives—examine the tension between Israel as a particular People called by God, and that very calling as intended for a universalist end, furthering God’s vision for all the world, not just for Jews alone. This balance of views arises naturally out of the prayers in the High Holy Day liturgy, coupled with insights from philosophy, literature, theology and ethics. This fifth volume in the Prayers of Awe series provides the relevant traditional prayers in the original Hebrew, alongside a new and annotated translation. It explores the question “Why be Jewish?” in a time when universalist commitment to our planet and its people has only grown in importance, even as particularist questions of Jewish continuity have become ever more urgent.
Author | : Leah Hart-Landsberg |
Publisher | : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1558967230 |
"Collection of personal essays by Jewish Unitarian Universalists about their experiences in the faith"--ECIP summary.
Author | : David Ellenson |
Publisher | : Hebrew Union College Press |
Total Pages | : 535 |
Release | : 2004-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0878200959 |
David Ellenson prefaces this fascinating collection of twenty-three essays with a remarkably candid account of his intellectual journey from boyhood in Virginia to the scholarly immersions in the history, thought, and literature of the Jewish people that have informed his research interests in a long and distinguished academic career. Ellenson, President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, has been particularly intrigued by the attempts of religious leaders in all denominations of Judaism, from Liberal to Neo-Orthodox, to redefine and reconceptualize themselves and their traditions in the modern period as both the Jewish community and individual Jews entered radically new realms of possibility and change. The essays are grouped into five sections. In the first, Ellenson reflects upon the expression of Jewish values and Jewish identity in contemporary America, explains his debt to Jacob Katz's socio-religious approach to Jewish history, and shows how the works of non-Jewish social historian Max Weber highlight the tensions between the universalism of western thought and Jewish demands for a particularistic identity. In the second section, "The Challenge of Emanicpation," he indicates how Jewish religious leaders in nineteenth-century Europe labored to demonstrate that the Jewish religion and Jewish culture were worthy of respect by the larger gentile world. In a third section, "Denominational Responses," Ellenson shows how the leaders of Liberal and Orthodox branches of Judaism in Central Europe constructed novel parameters for their communities through prayer books, legal writings, sermons, and journal articles. The fourth section, "Modern Responsa," takes a close look at twentieth-century Jewish legal decisions on new issues such as the status of woemn, fertility treatments, and even the obligations of the Israeli government towards its minority populations. Finally, review essays in the last section analyze a few landmark contemporary works of legal and liturgical creativity: the new Israeli Masorti prayer book, David Hartman's works on covenantal theology, and Marcia Falk's Book of Blessings. As Ellenson demonstrates, "The reality of Jewish cultural and social integration into the larger world after Emancipation did not signal the demise of Judaism. Instead, the modern setting has provided a challenging context where the ongoing creativity and adaptability of Jewish religious leaders of all stripes has been tested and displayed."
Author | : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004298282 |
Menachem Kellner is an American-born scholar of Jewish philosophy, an educator, and a public intellectual who lives in Israel. For over three decades he taught at the University of Haifa, where he held the Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Chair of Jewish Religious Thought as well as several high-level administrative positions. Currently he teaches Jewish philosophy at Shalem College, Israel’s first liberal arts college, which seeks to integrate Western and Jewish texts. Trained in ethics and political philosophy, Kellner specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy, arguing that Maimonides’ rationalist universalism should serve as the ideal for contemporary Jewish life. Creatively fusing Zionism, modern Orthodoxy, and democracy, his vision of Judaism is open to and engaged with the modern world.
Author | : Everett Gendler |
Publisher | : Blue Thread Communications |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Jewish ethics |
ISBN | : 9780990352426 |
A pioneer of Jewish environmentalism and spiritual renewal, a leader among rabbis who participated in the civil rights movement, a teacher of non-violent resistance, and a highly creative religious leader, Rabbi Everett Gendler here offers more than a half-century of insight about the quest for shalom, wholeness, in a fractured world.
Author | : Maurice Samuels |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2016-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022639705X |
The revolution reconsidered -- France's Jewish star -- Universalism in Algeria -- Zola and the Dreyfus affair -- The Jew in Renoir's La grande illusion -- Sartre's "Jewish question"--Finkielkraut, Badiou, and the "new antisemitism" -- Conclusion: "Je suis juif