Between Jewish tradition and modernity : rethinking an old opposition : essays in honor of David Ellenson /
edited by Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-341) and index.
Caring for an intermarried Jew by converting his partner: Rabbi Uzziel's earliest responsum on Giyur (Salonica, c. 1922) / Zvi Zohar -- Gaining moral guidance from the Jewish tradition: four examples to test David Ellenson's approach and mine / Elliot N. Dorff -- The role of reform in Israeli Orthodoxy / Adam S. Ferziger -- Between "west point standards" and life in the trenches: the Halakhic dilemmas of orthodox outreach workers / Jack Wertheimer -- The Touro Monument controversy: aniconism vs. anti-idolatry in a mid-nineteenth-century American Jewish religious dispute / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Reverse engineering the twentieth-century bar/bat mitzvah / Isa Aron -- "And it not be stilled": the legacy of Debbie Friedman / Deborah E. Lipstadt -- From the Rhine Valley to Jezreel Valley: innovative versions of the mourner's Kaddish in the Kibbutz movement / Dalia Marx -- New waters in an old vessel: a history of Mikveh in modern Judaism / Michael A. Meyer -- German Jewry and Dutch Jewry: two separate paths to modernity / Steven M. Lowenstein -- Zionism, American Jewry, and the "negation of diaspora" / Arnold Eisen -- Traditional exemplars in a time of crisis / Michael Marmur -- Between a rock and a hard place: Rav J.B. Soloveitchik's perspective on gender / Rachel Adler -- The tendency of stories and the ethics of life's endings / William Cutter -- Thoughts on forgiveness in psychoanalysis and judaism / Lewis M. Barth -- Ethnicity, religion, and spirituality in postwar jewish america / Lawrence A. Hoffman -- Complicating a Jewish modernity: the Jewish theological seminary, Columbia University and the rise of a Jewish counterculture in 1968 / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Reform Rabbis, Betty Friedan, and the uses of "tradition" / Carole B. Balin -- On Momento: remaking memory from the outside in / Wendy Zierler -- At the centenary of Agnon's "Ve-hayah he'akov le-mishor": a new reading / Arnold J. Band -- Coda: from tradition to radicalism: jewish women in pre-Holocaust Poland / Paula E. Hyman.