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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. As an unintended result of its success, the movement now struggles with an identity cr…
In light of profound demographic, social, and technological developments, it has become increasingly clear that the Reform movement of American Reform Jews will need to make major changes to meet the needs of a quickly evolving American Jewish population. Written by an American …
This is the book that American Jews and particularly American Reform Jews have been waiting for: a clear and informed call for further reform in the Reform movement. In light of profound demographic, social, and technological developments, it has become increasingly clear that t…
Judah L. Magnes: an American Jewish nonconformist
Darwin provoked Jews as well as Christians, and this book examines leading nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American progressive Jewish thinkers who wrestled with evolutionary theories. In particular there was a widespread commitment to the application of biological evolu…
Darwin provoked Jews as well as Christians, and this book examines leading nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American progressive Jewish thinkers who wrestled with evolutionary theories. In particular there was a widespread commitment to the application of biological evolu…
Responding to momentous global events such as the Holocaust and the birth of Israel, participating in major domestic trends such as suburbanization and the so-called "religious revival," and caught up in the anxious political atmosphere of the Cold War years, American Jews confr…