Jews And Judiasm In The 21st Century: Human Responsibility, The Presense Of God And The Future Of The Covenant

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The Jewish people have been committed, perhaps obsessed, with the task of carrying the values and wisdom of their past into the future. But the generation of the late twentieth century experienced a rupture in Jewish time. The integration of Jews into the American mainstream, the shattering tragedy of the Holocaust, the rebirth of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel made it so many Jewish people no longer look easily to the past for lessons and courage. No longer do we confidently project ourselves into the future. So much of what was taken for granted in earlier times is now open to question. In this challenging book, five celebrated figures in Judaism representing a broad spectrum of contemporary Jewish experience share their provocative observations of how Judaism has changed in the shadow of the events of the twentieth century, and what we can do to repair, rewind and reset Jewish time to ensure a thriving existence in the future.

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