Best Jewish writing 2002 / edited by Michael Lerner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lerner, Michael, 1943-2024.

Heschel, Susannah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Jewish authors.

American literature.

Jews in literature.

Judaism--Literary collections.

Judaism.

Jews--Literary collections.

Jews.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 383 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Summary:

In this much-anticipated annual volume, respected intellectual and spiritual leader Michael Lerner has collected the greatest Jewish writing of the past year. A review in the "Los Angeles Times "said of Lerner's first volume, "clearly an auspicious beginning." This new collection lives up to the promise of the first and includes poetry, fiction, and essays that highlight universal themes of healing, transformation, spirituality, politics, and cultural identity. No other book explores the challenges of contemporary Jewish life in a global, postmodern culture through all types of aritstic writing, This 2002 volume reflects the diversity of thought, opinion, and sensibility among Jews worldwide, including Susannah Heschel, Arthur Waskow, Wendy Wasserstein, Jonathan Rosen, Letty Pogrebin, Chaim Potok, Philip Levine, and Adrienne Rich, A special section includes a variety of articulate Jewish responses to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Contents:

Jewish Response to September 11

The Sukkah and the Towers / Arthur Waskow 3

Flaws in "Blame America" Arguments / Sylvia Barack Fishman 7

War / C. K. Williams 10

E-Mails from the End of the World / Jonathan Mark 13

Posttraumatic Love Syndrome 9/11 / Michael J. Bader 17

Should Scared Jews Become Tough Jews? / Michael Lerner 23

Red, White, and Gold: On the Numbing of a Nation / Danya Ruttenberg 34

The Many Identities of A Jew

Psalm / Joshua Weiner 43

Permeable Boundaries / Aryeh Cohen 46

The Secret Diary of a Bat Mitzva Girl / Galina Vromen 54

Shik'sa Goddess / Wendy Wasserstein 64

From Pure Poetry / Binnie Kirshenbaum 67

tova stop all jewish cooking now! 74

Waking Up to My Father's World / Jonathan Rosen 77

From Club Revelation / Allan Appel 85

Against Circumcision / Michael Kimmel 93

Defending Circumcision / David Zaslow 105

The Racial Politics of Hebrew / Loolwa Khazzoom 109

Reversion / Adrienne Rich 112

Reclaiming the Spirit in Judaism

Science and Religion: A Marriage Made in Heaven? / Rami Shapiro 117

Unmasking the Fast of Esther / Bonna Devora Haberman 123

Vegetarianism: A Global and Spiritual Imperative? / Richard H. Schwartz 132

My Fathers, the Baltic / Philip Levine 145

Bringing Messianic Consciousness / David A. Cooper 147

Prayer as Rebellion / Leonard Felder 154

The Worship Revolution / Eric H. Yoffie 162

Psalm 37 at Auschwitz / Jacqueline Osherow 169

The Curse of Being Right / David Suissa 174

Zohar / Alicia Ostriker 177

Cain and Abel: The Terrible Power of a Minor Guilt / Abraham B. Yehoshua 179

Authority, Resistance, and Transformation: Jewish Feminist Reflections on Good Sex / Judith Plaskow 189

From Our Immoral Soul: A Manifesto of Spiritual Disobedience / Nilton Bonder 199

The Tenth Plague / Jill Hammer 210

Israel in Conflict

How Could a Jew Do That? / Letty Cottin Pogrebin 217

Evil Unleashed / Tanya Reinhart 220

Eighty Theses / Uri Avnery 228

The Asymmetry of Pity / Yossi Klein Halevi 243

Just and Jewish Warfare / Michael Gross 254

Clearing up the Right-of-Return Confusion / Jerome M. Segal 264

A Story About a Bomb / Jonathan Tel 276

Praise: For Yehuda Amichai / Stanley Moss 286

On Being A Mensch and Healing A Troubled World

The Tasks of Embodied Love: Ethics, Religion, Disability / Roger S. Gottlieb 291

Reciprocity / David Abram 304

Roses / Gerald Stern 320

The Moral Dimensions of Global Environmental Protection / Paul Wapner 321

The Pleasures of Jewish Culture

First Things to Hand / Robert Pinsky 327

From Old Men at Midnight / Chaim Potok 328

Five Poems Entitled "Questions" / Gail Mazur 333

Poem Ending with a Phrase from the Psalms / Grace Schulman 339

From The Same Sea / Amos Oz 340

Excavating the Past: Looking into Jewish Stories / Shelly R. Fredman 343

October 1 / Susan Hahn 353

The Greatest Jew in the World / Leo Haber 356.

Notes:

Introduction by Susannah Heschel.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0787962104

OCLC:

50100811