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Understanding American Judaism : toward the description of a modern religion
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ISBN: 0870682792 Year: 1975 Publisher: New York : KTAV,

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It all begins with a date : Jewish concerns about intermarriage
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ISBN: 1568215428 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Aronson

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Profiles in American Judaism : the reform, conservative, orthodox, and reconstructionist traditions in historical perspective
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ISBN: 0060668016 Year: 1984 Publisher: San Francisco (Calif.): Harper and Row

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Jewish continuity in America
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ISBN: 0817388427 0585200386 9780585200385 0817309233 9780817309237 Year: 1998 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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Abraham J. Karp is the Philip S. Bernstein Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at The University of Rochester and The Joseph and Rebecca Mitchell Research Professor of American Jewish History and Bibliography at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

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Elliot N. Dorff
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ISBN: 9789004279025 9004279016 9004279024 9789004279018 9004279032 9789004279032 132251500X Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, the Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Rector of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, is one of today’s leading Jewish ethicists. Writing extensively on the intersection of law, morality, science, religion, and medicine, Dorff offers an authoritative and non-Orthodox interpretation of Jewish law. As a leader in the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, he has shaped the religious practices of Conservative Jews. In serving on national advisory committees and task forces, he has helped to articulate a distinctive Jewish voice on contested bioethical and biomedical issues. An analytic philosopher by training, Dorff has endorsed pluralism, arguing that Jewishness best flourishes in the context of American pluralism, and he has worked closely with non-Jews to advance religious pluralism in America.

ʻEts ḥayim = : Etz hayim : study companion
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ISBN: 0827608225 9780827608221 Year: 2005 Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society,

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Etz Hayim : Torah and commentary
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ISBN: 0827607121 9780827607125 Year: 2001 Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society,

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Jewish continuity in America : creative survival in a free society
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ISBN: 0817309233 9780817309237 Year: 1998 Volume: *3 Publisher: Tuscaloosa London University of Alabama Press

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American Reform Judaism
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ISBN: 1283592088 9786613904539 0813542480 9780813542485 0813532183 9780813532189 0813532191 9780813532196 Year: 2003 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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The only comprehensive and up-to-date look at Reform Judaism, this book analyzes the forces currently challenging the Reform movement, now the largest Jewish denomination in the United States. To distinguish itself from Orthodox and Conservative Judaism, the Reform movement tries to be an egalitarian, open, and innovative version of the faith true to the spirit of the tradition but nonetheless fully compatible with modern secular life. Promoting itself in this way, Reform Judaism has been tremendously successful in recruiting a variety of people-intermarried families, feminists, gays and lesbians, and interracial families among others-who resist more traditional forms of worship. As an unintended result of this success, the movement now struggles with an identity crisis brought on by its liberal theology, which teaches that each Jew is free to practice Judaism more or less as he or she pleases. In the absence of the authority that comes from a theology based on a commanding, all-powerful God, can Reform Judaism continue to thrive? Can it be broadly inclusive and still be uniquely and authentically Jewish? Taking this question as his point of departure, Dana Evan Kaplan provides a broad overview of the American Reform movement and its history, theology, and politics. He then takes a hard look at the challenges the movement faces as it attempts to reinvent itself in the new millennium. In so doing, Kaplan gives the reader a sense of where Reform Judaism has come from, where it stands on the major issues, and where it may be going. Addressing the issues that have confronted the movement-including the ordination of women, acceptance of homosexuality, the problem of assimilation, the question of rabbinic officiation at intermarriages, the struggle for acceptance in Israel, and Jewish education and others-Kaplan sheds light on the connection between Reform ideology and cultural realities. He unflinchingly, yet optimistically, assesses the movement's future and cautions that stormy weather may be ahead.


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Hakol Kol Yaakov : The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume
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ISBN: 9004420460 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill,

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Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others are rabbinic responsa that treat an issue of contemporary Jewish law. In his career, Joel Roth has been known as a scholar and teacher of Talmud par excellence, and, without question, as the preeminent decisor of Jewish law for the Conservative movement of his generation. In the meticulous style and approach of the Talmud scholarship of his generation, Roth painstakingly and precisely assayed the vast array of rabbinic legal sources, and proceeded to apply these in pedagogy, in scholarship and particularly in the production of contemporary legal responsa. The articles in this volume reflect the unique and integrated voice and vision that Joel Roth has brought to the American Jewish community.

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