The New Jewish Canon

The New Jewish Canon -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction--the State Of Jewish Ideas: Towards A New Jewish Canon -- I. Jewish Politics And The Public Square -- 1. Michael Walzer, Exodus And Revolution -- 2. George Steiner, Our Homeland, The Text, 1985; Judith Butler, Remarks To Brooklyn College On Bds, 2013 -- 3. Jonathan Woocher, Sacred Survival -- 4. Benny Morris, The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 And The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited Ari Shavit, Survival Of The Fittest? An Interview With Benny Morris And Lydda, 1948 -- 5. Irving Greenberg Vs. Meir Kahane, Public Debate At The Hebrew Institute Of Riverdale -- 6. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Judaism, Human Values, And The Jewish State -- 7. Israeli Knesset Basic Law: Human Dignity And Liberty Aharon Barak, A Judge On Judging: The Role Of A Supreme Court In A Democracy -- 8. Aharon Lichtenstein, On The Murder Of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin Zl -- 9. Aviezer Ravitzky, Messianism, Zionism, And Jewish Religious Radicalism -- 10. The Israeli Supreme Court Sitting As The High Court Of Justice: Horev V. Minister Of Transportation, 1997 The Israeli Supreme Court Sitting As The High Court Of Justice: Baruch Marzel V. Jerusalem District Police Commander, Mr. Aharon Franco, 2002 -- 11. Samuel G. Freedman, Jew Vs. Jew: The Struggle For The Soul Of American Jewry -- 12. Breaking The Silence Testimonies -- 13. Steven M. Cohen And Jack Wertheimer, Whatever Happened To The Jewish People? -- 14. Yitzhak Shapira And Yosef Elitzur, Torat Hamelekh -- 15. Moshe Halbertal, The Goldstone Illusion -- 16. Peter Beinart, The Failure Of The American Jewish Establishment -- 17. Daniel Gordis, When Balance Becomes Betrayal Sharon Brous, Lowering The Bar -- 18. Matti Friedman, An Insider's Guide To The Most Important Story On Earth -- Ii. History, Memory, And Narrative -- 1. David Hartman, Auschwitz Or Sinai? -- 2. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Zakhor: Jewish History And Jewish Memory -- 3. Emil Fackenheim, To Mend The World -- 4. Robert M. Cover, The Supreme Court, 1982 Term--foreword: Nomos And Narrative -- 5. Kahan Commission -- 6. Amos Oz, In The Land Of Israel -- 7. David Biale, Power And Powerlessness In Jewish History -- 8. Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech -- 9. Primo Levi, The Drowned And The Saved -- 10. Irving (yitz) Greenberg, The Third Great Cycle Of Jewish History -- 11. Deborah Lipstadt, Denying The Holocaust Yaffa Eliach, There Once Was A World: A 900-year Chronicle Of The Shtetl Of Eishyshok -- 12. Haym Soloveitchik, Rupture And Reconstruction -- 13. Naomi Seidman, Elie Wiesel And The Scandal Of Jewish Rage -- 14. Dabru Emet -- 15. Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History -- 16. David Weiss Halivni, Breaking The Tablets: Jewish Theology After The Shoah -- 17. Ruth Wisse, How Not To Remember And How Not To Forget -- 18. Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers -- Iii. Religion And Religiosity -- 1. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Halakhic Man -- 2. Rabbi Yehoshua Yeshaya Neuwirth, Shemirath Shabbath Kehilchathah -- 3. The Complete Artscroll Siddur -- 4. David Hartman, A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit In Traditional Judaism -- 5. Neil Gillman, Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology For The Modern Jew Eugene Borowitz, Renewing The Covenant: A Theology For The Postmodern Jew -- 6. Rachel Adler, In Your Blood, Live: Re- Visions Of A Theological Purity -- 7. Rodger Kamenetz, The Jew In The Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery Of Jewish Identity In Buddhist India -- 8. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Genesis: The Beginning Of Desire -- 9. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel (ed.), Moral Grandeur And Spiritual Audacity -- 10. Noam Zion And David Dishon, A Different Night: The Family Participation Haggadah -- 11. Mendel Shapiro, Qeri'at Ha-torah By Women: A Halakhic Analysis -- 12. Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity Of Difference: How To Avoid The Clash Of Civilizations -- 13. Rav Shagar, Broken Vessels -- 14. Arthur Green, Radical Judaism: Rethinking God And Tradition Daniel Landes, Hidden Master Arthur Green And Daniel Landes, God, Torah, And Israel: An Exchange -- 15. Elie Kaunfer, Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us About Building Vibrant Jewish Communities -- Iv. Identities And Comm -- 1. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Letter To The Jewish Community Of Teaneck -- 2. Blu Greenberg, On Women And Judaism: A View From Tradition -- 3. Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen To Good People Alan Lew, This Is Real And You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days Of Awe As A Journey Of Transformation -- 4. Evelyn Torton Beck (ed.), Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology Susannah Heschel (ed.), On Being A Jewish Feminist -- 5. Paul Cowan With Rachel Cowan, Mixed Blessings: Overcoming The Stumbling Blocks In An Interfaith Marriage -- 6. Judith Plaskow, Standing Again At Sinai: Judaism From A Feminist Perspective -- 7. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Deborah, Golda, And Me: Being Female And Jewish In America -- 8. Barry Kosmin, Highlights Of The Cjf 1990 National Jewish Population Survey A Portrait Of Jewish Americans, Pew Research Center -- 9. Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy Paula Hyman, Who Is An Educated Jew? Vanessa Ochs, Ten Jewish Sensibilities -- 10. Yaakov Levado, Gayness And God: Wrestlings Of An Orthodox Rabbi -- 11. Leonard Fein, Smashing Idols And Other Prescriptions For Jewish Continuity -- 12. Steven M. Cohen And Arnold M. Eisen, The Jew Within: Self, Family, And Community In America -- 13. A. B. Yehoshua, The Meaning Of Homeland -- 14. Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel S. Nevins, And Avram I. Reisner, Homosexuality, Human Dignity And Halakhah: A Combined Responsum For The Committee On Jewish Law And Standards -- 15. Noah Feldman, Orthodox Paradox Jay Lefkowitz, The Rise Of Social Orthodoxy: A Personal Account -- 16. Tamar Biala And Nechama Weingarten- Mintz (eds.), Dirshuni: Midrashei Nashim -- 17. Leon Wieseltier, Language, Identity, And The Scandal Of American Jewry -- 18. Ruth Calderon, The Heritage Of All Israel -- 19. Rick Jacobs, The Genesis Of Our Future -- Contributing Authors -- Permissions -- Index Edited By Yehuda Kurtzer And Claire E. Sufrin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mi Available Via World Wide Web.