Jewish arguments and counterarguments : essays and addresses / Steven Bayme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayme, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Identity.

Jews.

United States.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Jews--United States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Jewish families--United States.

Jewish families.

Orthodox Judaism--Relations--Nontraditional Jews.

Orthodox Judaism.

Relations.

Nontraditional Jews.

Judaism--United States.

Judaism.

Israel and the diaspora.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 492 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Ktav Pub. House in association with the American Jewish Committee, [2002]

Contents:

Jewish History and Jewish Historical Memory

Conflicting Jewish Responses to Modernity 3

Claude Montefiore, Lily Montagu, and the Origins of the Jewish Religious Union 23

The Jewish Community and the Teaching of American Jewish History 45

Freedom, Conscience, and Authority in Jewish Tradition 55

Assassinations: Ancient and Modern 66

Beshallach: Not Every Enemy Is Amalek 72

Saddam, Haman, and Amalek 75

Passover and Modern Jewish Identity 78

American Jewry Fifty Years after the Holocaust 81

The Formation of Jewish Identity in America

Ideologies of Jewish Identity 93

American Jewry: Erosion or Renewal? 104

Judaism and American Public Life 107

Between Left and Right: A New Dialogue? 111

Teaching Kids Jewish Civic Responsibility 115

Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity 123

Two Roads to the Future 126

Jewish Family Policy

Divorce: Jewish Style 133

Strengthening the Two-Parent Home 136

Finding Common Ground in the Family Policy Debate 140

Promoting the Jewish Family in the Diaspora 143

Changing Perceptions of Divorce 146

The Changing Jewish Family in the 1990s: Implications for the Synagogue 157

Between Tradition and Modernity: The Contemporary Family and Jewish Values 164

Can We Speak of Family Values Today? Jewish Teachings, Continuity and Repairing the American Family 175

Can Jewish Families Survive in Pagan America? 186

Intermarriage, Jewish Continuity, and Outreach

Changing Perceptions of Intermarriage 193

Opportunities for Jewish Renewal 211

Communal Policy and Jewish Continuity: Future Guidelines and Directions 214

The Intermarriage Crisis 223

Failing to Address Crisis From Within 234

National Jewish Population Survey: Implications for the Rabbinate 237

Outreach to the Unaffiliated 246

Who Controls the Jewish Continuity Agenda? 273

Jewish Organizational Response to Intermarriage: A Policy Perspective 280

Outreach Has Its Risks 296

The Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Continuity Agenda 298

Assessing an Outreach Effort 304

Intracommunal Issues: Pluralism, Orthodoxy, and Jewish Unity

A New Agenda for Tomorrow's Jewish Community? 313

"We're Okay, You're All Wrong" 330

Understanding Orthodox Dissent 334

Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood 337

Digging Their Heels into Pluralism 346

Panic on Pluralism Is Premature 350

Patrilineal Descent Revisited 353

From Coalitions to Partnerships to Mergers 364

Israel-Diaspora Relations

Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Case of American Orthodoxy: A True Partnership? 369

Changing Patterns in Israel-Diaspora Relations 385

Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood: A Symposium in the Wake of the Rabin Assassination 393

Israel: Jewish or Post-Zionist? 400

Continue the Ne'eman Formula 404

Roundtable on Yossi Beilin's "The Death of the American Uncle" 407

Crisis in American Jewry: A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today 415

Anarchism and Judaism, Jewish Radicals: From Czarist Stetl to London Ghetto 419

From Philanthropy to Activism: The Political Transformation of American Zionism in the Holocaust Years 1933-1945 425

British Jewry and the Holocaust 427

Torah and Science: The Men and Women of Yeshiva 430

Tradition or Modernity? Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew and Torah U'madda 434

Imagining the Jewish Future: Essays and Response 444

Whither American Jewry? Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry and Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century 446

Three-Part Strategy for Intermarriage: It All Begins with a Date: Preserving Jewishness in Your Family 453

Jewish Power: Inside the Jewish Establishment 457

Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States 462

The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century 465

Finding the Middle Ground: Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America 469

Chasidim Do More Than Dance: The Religious Thought of Hasidim 473

Across the Great Divide: Jewish or Israeli? Israelis and the Jewish Tradition 475

ArtScroll and Scholarship 481

On Gays in the Parade 485

Engaging the Debate on Pluralism 486

Jewish Continuity 488

Conservative Judaism 490

Intermarriage 492.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0881257389

OCLC:

49226247