Contents: 1. An invitation to self-examination -- 2. The rise of the modern Marrano -- 3. Jewish enough to inquire -- 4. Ethics without roots -- 5. Finding a worthy minority -- 6. The power of being an ethnos -- 7. Folk without faith -- 8. The state of Israel as our center -- 9. When institution replaces community -- 10. The ultimate unity -- 11. The existential Jew -- 12. Updating an argument: American Jewry faces of the 1980s -- Some personal words.

The Mask Jews Wear: The Self-Deceptions of American Jewry

Eugene B. Borowitz

Simon&Schuster

CONTENTS: The Question - 1. Ethics in the Modern Mode; 2. Specifying the Problem; The Options - 3. Four Alternative Ethics; 4. Contraception as an Ethical Necessity; 5. The Jewish Experience; The Values - 6. The Ethics of Healthy Orgasm; 7. The Ethics of Mutual Consent; 8. The Ethics of Love; 9. The Ethics of Marriage; Conclusion - 10. Speaking Personally; Notes; Afterword; Suggestions For Further Reading; Bibliography"

Choosing a Sex Ethic: A Jewish Inquiry

Schocken Books

How should religions disagree with one another today? How might they properly engage in dialogue concerning their central beliefs when these radically contradict the faith of others? In this book for the first time in Jewish-Christian discussions, a Jewish theologian investigates contemporary Christian doctrines of the Christ and responds to them out of his faith in God's continuing covenant with the people of Israel.

Contemporary Christologies: A Jewish response

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Paulist Press International,U.

Is a post-modern liberal Jewish ethics possible? Can the personal freedom today's Jews cherish have an effective role in a life shaped by the claims of Jewish law and tradition? 
For more than twenty years, a renowned Jewish thinker has been giving a positive answer to these questions. In the forty papers gathered here, some being published for the first time, Eugene Borowitz rejects the forced choice of either anarchic liberalism or Orthodox legal discipline, halakhah, to create a new approach to Jewish ethics. 
The enterprise of modern Jewish ethics, he shows, arose in the nineteenth century in optimistic response to emancipation from the ghetto. But after the Holocaust and the general disillusion with the moral character of modernity, the old confidence in humankind's rationality seems ludicrous. As a result, many have gladly surrendered the self to an orthodoxy only to discover it can lead to zealotry or fanaticism. 
Borowitz agrees that modern democracy needs a religious foundation but insists it, too, has compelling spiritual insight, most notably in its reverence for individual dignity and group tolerance. Integrating the truths of modernity and tradition, he formulates an ethics of the autonomous Jewish self living in Covenant. His free Jew is intimately bound to the Jewish people-its present community, its past tradition, its messianic future-and to its God, the One who still grounds Jewish duty and summons Jews to their responsibilities.
Borowitz applies his ethical approach to problems as diverse as marital sexuality, capitalism's temptations, psychotherapy, leadership styles, the continuing claims of social justice, confidence in government, homosexuality, the Jewish version of imitatio dei, and more. Religion itself comes within his purview and he breaks new ethical ground in trenchant analyses of intra-Jewish relationships and theological inter-faith dialogue with Buddhists as well as Christians.
Readers will be informed, aroused, even angered by some of these papers. They will also be ethically edified by engagement with a thinker who gives the mind full due while living more fundamentally in Jewish faith. Responding to his ideas, they will face anew what they believe and must now do to maintain the Covenant.

Exploring Jewish Ethics: Papers on Covenant Responsibility

History

World

Wayne State Univ Pr

What it means to be a Reform Jew today. The place of Reform in the spectrum of Jewish belief and ritual. Is there a Reform halachah? The unresolved question of Reform Judaism in the life of the Jewish state. A new definition for the early Reform concept of the "Mission of Israel".

How We Live (Reform Judaism Today, Volume 3)

Behrman House, Inc.

Reform Judaism Today

Judaism

Behrman House

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