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Judaism's Promise, Meeting the Challenge of Modernity
Contributor(s): Itzkoff, Seymour W. (Author)
ISBN: 1433120062     ISBN-13: 9781433120060
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
OUR PRICE:   $65.03  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Judaism - History
- History
- Religion | Hinduism - General
Dewey: 296.090
LCCN: 2012012647
Physical Information: 218 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Hindu
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
 
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Publisher Description:
Judaism's Promise, Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W. Itzkoff's well-received three-book series, Who Are the Jews? Judaism's Promise, confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries allowing it and its people a path of leadership into the modern world. It takes the writings of the Torah, Holy Scriptures, and Talmud seriously as exemplars of the human search for civilizational and moral intellectuality. The book's basic concern is with the withering of Judaism as a force in contemporary Western civilization.
Sadly millions of Jews have left the faith. Others venture forth only hesitantly into a synagogue, now a bastion of fossilized ritual and conspicuous consumption. These millions needed more from the orthodoxy, and this book attempts to show them the way back by giving renewed life to the heritages of Judaism, and, consequently, to its meaning for the modern world. Judaism's Promise argues for a return to the synagogue's originating Hellenistic commitment to come together in intellectual and moral study. As Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan argued, Judaism must once more become in the 20-21st century the civilization that it once represented to the wider world, and not a fossilized ceremonialism.