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Contemporary debates in American reform Judaism : conflicting visions / Dana Evan Kaplan, editor.

Contributor(s): Kaplan, Dana Evan
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2001Description: xii, 274 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415926297 (pbk.); 0415926289Subject(s): Reform Judaism -- United StatesDDC classification: 296.8/341/0973 LOC classification: BM197 | .C6 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Martin E. Marty -- Introduction: Conflicting visions of the Reform movement in the United States today / Dana Evan Kaplan -- A religious and social profile of Reform Judaism in the United States / Bernard M. Lazerwitz and Ephraim Tabory -- Reform Judaism and modern American Community / Lewis A. Friedland -- Reform Judaism in the spiritual marketplace / Richard Cimino -- Why people in the Sunbelt join a synagogue: Jewish religious preference in Palm Beach County / Joel L. Levine -- When Reform Judaism was Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- Reform's original sin / Arnold Jacob Wolf -- From the Christmas tree to the yarmulke: what separates Classical Reform from mainstream Reform? / Harold S. Silver -- Full churches and empty synagogues: a defense of Classical Reform / Jay R. Brickman -- Orthodoxy confronts Reform: the two hundred years' war / Aryeh Spero -- Not by birth alone: the case for a missionary Judaism / Alexander M. Schindler -- Patrilineal descent revisited / Steven Bayme -- The importance of outreach in maintaining Reform's autonomy, diversity, and pluralism / Eric H. Yoffie -- Why I officiate at mixed-marriage wedding ceremonies / Hillel Cohn
A worthier place: women, Reform Judaism, and the presidents of Hebrew Union College / Karla Goldman -- Embracing lesbians and gay men: a reform Jewish innovation / Denise L. Eger -- "Where kosher means organic and union label": bisexual women reembrace their Jewish heritage / Hinda Seif -- Leadership for profound change: a means for transforming the American Reform synagogue / Samuel K. Joseph -- The legitimacy of Reform Judaism: the impact of Israel on the United States / Ephraim Tabory -- Reform Judaism of the new millennium: a challenge / Alfred Gottschalk -- Transforming the Reform Jew / Sheldon Zimmerman -- Afterword / W. Gunther Plaut.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Martin E. Marty -- Introduction: Conflicting visions of the Reform movement in the United States today / Dana Evan Kaplan -- A religious and social profile of Reform Judaism in the United States / Bernard M. Lazerwitz and Ephraim Tabory -- Reform Judaism and modern American Community / Lewis A. Friedland -- Reform Judaism in the spiritual marketplace / Richard Cimino -- Why people in the Sunbelt join a synagogue: Jewish religious preference in Palm Beach County / Joel L. Levine -- When Reform Judaism was Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- Reform's original sin / Arnold Jacob Wolf -- From the Christmas tree to the yarmulke: what separates Classical Reform from mainstream Reform? / Harold S. Silver -- Full churches and empty synagogues: a defense of Classical Reform / Jay R. Brickman -- Orthodoxy confronts Reform: the two hundred years' war / Aryeh Spero -- Not by birth alone: the case for a missionary Judaism / Alexander M. Schindler -- Patrilineal descent revisited / Steven Bayme -- The importance of outreach in maintaining Reform's autonomy, diversity, and pluralism / Eric H. Yoffie -- Why I officiate at mixed-marriage wedding ceremonies / Hillel Cohn

A worthier place: women, Reform Judaism, and the presidents of Hebrew Union College / Karla Goldman -- Embracing lesbians and gay men: a reform Jewish innovation / Denise L. Eger -- "Where kosher means organic and union label": bisexual women reembrace their Jewish heritage / Hinda Seif -- Leadership for profound change: a means for transforming the American Reform synagogue / Samuel K. Joseph -- The legitimacy of Reform Judaism: the impact of Israel on the United States / Ephraim Tabory -- Reform Judaism of the new millennium: a challenge / Alfred Gottschalk -- Transforming the Reform Jew / Sheldon Zimmerman -- Afterword / W. Gunther Plaut.

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