Dana Evan Kaplan (ed.)

Contemporary Debates in American Reform Judaism

Conflicting Visions
Herausgeber: Kaplan, Dana Evan

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Produktbeschreibung

Discusses the recent issues and arguments surrounding the Reform movement. The contributors to this volume examine several issues including: the role of Reform in relation to Conservative and Orthodox movements; the role of women and feminism in Reform, particularly women rabbis; the upcoming vote on the new platform scheduled for this year; and interpretations of the latest census data for Reform Jews.

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This is a ground breaking collection of essays that takes a hard look at the Reform Movement today. Opening essays look at the problem of building a religous community, the competition in the "spiritual marketplace," and why people join or do not join a Reform synagogue. Other contributors look at a host of controversial issues including Patrilineal Descent, Outreach, Intermarriage, gender issues, gay and lesbian participation, and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780415926294
• ISBN-10: 0415926297
• Artikelnr.: 20972301

Autorenporträt

Dana Evan Kaplan is the Oppenstein Brothers assistant Professor of Judaic and Religous Studies in the Department of History and the director of the Danciger Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Martin E. Marty
Introduction: Conflicting Visions of the Reform Movement in the United States Today, Dana Evan Kaplan
Section 1 Where We Are Today
1. A Religious and Social Profile of Reform Judaism in the United States, Bernard M. Lazerwitz and Ephraim Tabory
2. Reform Judaism and Modern American Community, Lewis A. Friedland
3. Reform Judaism in the Spiritual Marketplace, Richard Cimino
4. Why People in the Sunbelt Join a Synagogue: Jewish Religious Preference in palm Beach County, Joel Levine
Section 2 Legitimacy and Authenticity: The Sins of Yesterday and the Controversies of Today
5. When Reform Judaism Was Judaism, Jacob Neusner
6. Reform's Original Sin, Arnold Jacob Wolf
7. From the Christmas Tree to the Yarmulke: What Separates Classical Reform from mainstream Reform? Harold S. Silver
8. Full Churches, Empty Synagogues: a Defense of Classical Reform, Jay R. Brickman
9. Orthodoxy Confronts Reform: The Two Hundred Years' War, Aryeh Spero
Section 3 Personal Status
10. Not by Birth Alone: The Case for a Missionary Judaism, Alexander M. Schindler
11. Patrilineal Descent Revisited, Steven Bayme
12. The Importance of Outreach in Maintaining Reform's Autonomy, Diversity, and Pluralism, Eric H. Yoffie
13. Why I Officiate at Mixed-Marriage Wedding Ceremonies, Hillel Cohn
Section 4 Gender
14. A Worthier Place: Women, Reform Judaism, and the Presidents of Hebrew Union College, Karla Goldman
15. Embracing Lesbians and Gay Men: A Refom Jewish Innovation, Denise L. Eger
16. Where Kosher Means Organic and Union Label: Bisexual Women Reembrace Their Jewish Heritage, Hinda Seif
Section 5 Visions for the Future
17. Leadership for Profound Change: A Means for Transforming the American Reform Synagogue, Samuel K. Joseph
18. The Legitimacy of Reform Judaism: The Impact of Israel on the United States, Ephraim Tabory
19. Reform Judaism of the New Millennium: A Challenge, Alfred Gottschalk
20. Transforming the Reform Jew, Sheldon Zimmerman
Afterword, W. Gunther Plaut
About the Contributors
Index