A Practical Bibliography of Contemporary Jewish Thought
Based on readings students have found useful.
Revised October 2008 by Jill Cozen Harel and Dr. Eugene B. Borowitz
RECENT WORKS TREATING MANY TOPICS
ALIYAH/GALUT (Also see ZIONISM)
AUTHORITY/HALAKHAH/ETHICS/REFORM JEWISH PRACTICE
CHOSENNESS/COVENANT/MISSION/UNIVERSALISM &
PARTICULARISM
EVIL AND GOD (Also see HOLOCAUST)
EVIL AND MYSTICISM
FEMINISM (Also see AUTHORITY/HALAKHAH)
FEMINISM AND GOD
FEMINISM AND HALAKHAH
HEALING
HOLOCAUST (Also see EVIL AND GOD)
IMMORTALITY
JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
MESSIANIC JUDAISM
MESSIANISM
MYSTICISM TODAY
PRAYER
SECULAR JUDAISM
ZIONISM AND POST-ZIONISM (Also see ALIYAH/GALUT)
OLDER WORKS
VARIETY OF TOPICS
ALIYAH/GALUT
AUTHORITY/HALAKHAH/ETHICS/REFORM JEWISH PRACTICE
CHOSENNESS/COVENANT/UNIVERSALISM & PARTICULARISM
FEMINISM
HEALING
HOLOCAUST
IMMORTALITY
JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
MESSIANIC JUDAISM
MESSIANISM
PRAYER
SECULAR JUDAISM
ZIONISM AND POST-ZIONISM
WEB-BASED SEARCH TOOLS AND PERIODICAL DATABASES
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RECENT WORKS TREATING MANY TOPICS
Adler, Rachel. Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics.
Philadelphia,
The Jewish Publication Society, 1998.
Alpert, Rebecca. Like Bread on the Seder Plate. New York: Columbia
University Press,
1997.
Ariel, David S., What Do Jews Believe? The Spiritual Foundations of
Judaism. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.
Berkovits, Eliezer. God Man and History. Jerusalem: Shalem, 2004.
Borowitz, Eugene B. Judaism after Modernity, Papers from a Decade of
Fruition.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.
Borowitz, Eugene B. Renewing the Covenant. Philadelphia: Jewish
Publication Society,
1991.
Eugene Borowitz, Studies in the Meaning of Judaism, Jewish Publication
Society, 2002
Borowitz, Eugene B. and Frances W. Schwartz A
Touch of the Sacred: A Theologian’s Informal Guide to Jewish
Belief.
Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2007.
Cohen, Arthur and Paul Mendes-Flohr. Contemporary Jewish Religious
Thought. New
York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1987.
Dorff, Elliot. Knowing God. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1992.
Dorff, Elliot and Louis Newman. Contemporary Jewish Theology, A
Reader. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999
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Eisen, Arnold. Rethinking Modern Judaism, Ritual, Commandment,
Community.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Fackenheim, Emil. The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim. Detroit:
Wayne State
University Press, 1987.
Gibbs, Robert. Correlations Between Rosenzweig and Levinas. Princeton:
Princeton
University Press, 1992
Gillman, Neil. Sacred Fragments. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society,
1990.
Gillman, Neil. Traces of God: seeing God in Torah, History, and Everyday
Life. Woodstock, VM: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2006.
Goodman, Lenn. God of Abraham. New York: Oxford University Press,
1996.
Green, Arthur, Seek My Face, Speak My Name. Northvale, NJ: Jason
Aronson Inc., 1992.
Hartman, David. A Heart of Many Rooms: Celebrating the Many Voices
within Judaism. Woodstock: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999.
Hartman, David. A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional
Judaism.
Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1998.
Hertzberg, Arthur, and Hirt-Manehimer, Aron. Jews: The Essence and
Character of a People. San Francisco: Harper, 1998.
Kaufman, William E. Contemporary Jewish Philosophy, (Detroit 1992,
Wayne University Press)
Katz, Steven. Post-Holocaust Dialogues. New York: New York University
Press, 1983.
Kepnes, Steven, ed. Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age. New York:
New York
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University Press, 1996.
Kugel, James. On Being a Jew. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990.
Kushner, Harold. To Life!: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking.
Boston, Mass:
Little, Brown and Company, 1993.
Morgan, Michael. Interim Judaism: Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis.
Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 2001
Stephane Moses. System and Revelation The Philosophy of Franz
Rosenzweig. (Detroit 1992, Wayne University Press)
Ochs, Peter, Robert Gibbs and Stephen Kepnes. Reasoning after
Revelation: Dialogue in
Postmodern Jewish Philosophy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
1998.
Ochs, Peter. Reviewing the Covenant, Eugene B. Borowitz and the
Postmodern Renewal
of Jewish Theology, with Eugene B. Borowitz. Albany, NY: SUNY
Press, 2000.
Plaskow, Judith. Standing Again at Sinai. New York: Harper Collins, 1990.
Samuelson, Norbert. An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy.
Albany: SUNY
Press, 1990.
Samuelson, Nornert. Judaism of the Doctrine of Creation. Cambridge:
Cambridge
University Press, 1994.
Schweid, Eliezer. Jewish Thought in the 20th Century. Atlanta: Scholars
Press, 1992
Seeskin, Kenneth. Searching for a Distant God. New York: Oxford
University Press,
2000.
Sonsino, Rifat and Daniel B. Syme. Finding God. New York: UAHC
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Press, 2002.
Sonsino, Rifat, ed. The Many Faces of God. New York: URJ Press, 2004.
Weiss-Halivni, David. Revelation Restored, Divine Writ and Critical
Responses. Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, 1997.
Wyschogrod, Michael. The Body of Faith. New York: Seabury, 1983.
ALIYAH/GALUT
(Also see ZIONISM)
Alexander, Edward. "Seeking Ease in Exile," Judaism, Summer 1983.
Auerbach, Jerold S. “Are We One? Jewish Identity in the United States
and Israel.” New Brunswick, N.J., 2001.
Aviv, Caryn and Schneer, David. New Jews: The End of the Jewish
Diaspora. New York:
New York University Press, 2005.
Biale, David, review of Arnold Eisen. "Galut: Modern Jewish Reflection on
Homelessness and Homecoming." Judaism, Summer 1990.
Don-Yehiya, Eliezer. "The Negation of Galut in Religious Zionism." Modern
Judaism
12:2 (May 1992): 129-155.
Gordis, Daniel. "When Only Half a Dream Comes True." Tikkun.
March/April 1998: 7778.
Golan, Matti. With Friends Like You. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
Halpern, Ben. "Exile and Redemption: A Secular Zionist View." In Judaism,
September
1980.
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Hertzberg, Arthur. "Israel and Diaspora: A Relationship Reexamined." In
The Jewish
Condition, by Aron Hirt Manheimer. New York: UAHC Press, 1995.
Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis. New York:
Atheneum, 1981.
Lando, Michal, “Coming Home: The Reform Movement Embraces Aliyah,”
Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2007.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1183459198100&pagename=JP
ost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Levine, Etan, ed. Diaspora: Exile and the Contemporary Jewish Condition.
New York:
Steimatzky-Shapolsky, 1986.
Maslin, Simeon J. "American Galut: Negation and Affirmation." In CCAR
Yearbook,
Vol. 98, 1988.
Wurzburger, Walter S. "There Need Be No Conflict." In Judaism, Summer
1993.
Yehoshua, A. B. “Exile as a Neurotic Solution.” Contemporary Jewish
Theology. Edited
by Elliot Dorff and Louis Newman. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999.
Yoffie, Eric. “A Response to A.B. Yehoshua.” CCAR Journal. Spring 2007.
AUTHORITY/HALAKHAH/ETHICS/REFORM JEWISH PRACTICE
Adler, Rachel. Engendering Judaism. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication
Society,
1998.
Artson, Bradley Shavit. "Halachah and Ethics: The Holy and the Good."
Conservative
Judaism, Spring 1994.
Artson, Bradley Shavit. "Integrating Tradition and Change." Conservative
Judaism,
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Winter 1992.
Berkovits, Eliezer. Not in Heaven. New York: KTAV Publishing, 1983.
Borowitz, Eugene B. Exploring Jewish Ethics: Papers on Covenant
Responsibility.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990.
Borowitz, Eugene B. "'Halakhah' in Reform Jewish Usage: Historic
Background and
Current Discourse." In CCAR Journal, Fall 2002.
Breslauer, Daniel, “Building a Postmodern Reform Judaism: The Example
of Eugene B.
Borowitz,” in Platforms and Prayer Books: Theological and Liturgical
Perspectives on Reform Judaism, New York: Rowman and
Littlefield, 2003.
Bronstein, Herbert. “Mitzvah and Autonomy: the oxymoron of Reform
Judaism.”
Tikkun. July/August 1999. Vol 14:4. pp 41-44. With Responses by
Sylvia Barack
Fishman and Rabbis Eric Yoffie, Elliot Dorff and Emanuel Feldman
pp. 45-47
and 56.
CCAR. “Responsa: A Non-Traditional Sukkah.” 5755:4.
http://data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/respdisp.pl?file=4&year=5755
CCAR. “Responsa: The Synagogue Thrift Shop and Shabbat.” 5757.7
http://data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/respdisp.pl?file=7&year=5757
Cedarbaum, Daniel Goldman. "The Role of Halakha in Reconstructionist
Decision Making." The Reconstructionist 65, no 2. (Spring 2001): 29-38.
Robert Cover, “The Supreme Court 1982 Term, Foreword: Nomos and
Narrative,” Harvard Law Review, 1983.
Dorff, Elliott. "Autonomy vs. Community," Conservative Judaism. Vol
XLVIII, no. 2,
Winter, 1996. Borowitz Response, "Reform Judaism of Reviewing
the Covenant,"
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and Dorff Rejoinder, "Matters of Degree and Kind," both in
Conservative
Judaism, Vol. L, No. 1, Fall 1997. All these articles published in the
Pamphlet,
"Defining Ourselves." Samek Institute at HUC-JIR, 1998.
Dorff, Elliot N. For the Love of God and People: A Philosophy of Jewish
Law. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2007.
Dorff, Elliot N. “Formulating Jewish Law for our Time.”
http://www.uscj.org/CJFormulating_Jewish5454.html
Dorff, Elliot N. The Unfolding Tradition: Jewish Law after Sinai. Aviv Press.
New
York. 2005
Dorff, Elliot N. and Louis E. Newman, eds. Contemporary Jewish Ethics
and Morality.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Eisen, Arnold. "Autonomy, Community, and Covenant: Liberal Judaism
Confronts the
Twenty-First Century." In Freedom and Responsibility: Exploring the
Challenges of the Jewish Community. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav
Publishing, 1998.
Ellenson, David. "Autonomy and Norms in Reform Judaism." In CCAR
Journal, Vol.
XLVI, No. 2 Issue 181, Spring 1999:21-28.
Ellenson, David. "The Challenges of Halakhah." Judaism. 38, Summer
1989.
Ellenson, David. "Halakhah for Liberal Jews." In The Reconstructionist,
March 1988.
Ellenson, David and Michael White. "Moshe Zemer's Halakhah Shefuyah:
An Israeli
Vision of Reform Halakhah." CCAR Journal (Spring/Summer 1996).
Ellenson, David. "Jewish Legal Interpretations: Literary, Scriptural, Social
and Ethical
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Perspectives." In Semeia, 1985.
Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. "Toward a Liberal Theory of Halakha." In Tikkun,
July/August,
1995.
Freehof, Solomon. "A Reform View of Jewish Law." In Journey Through
Judaism, ed.
Alan Bennet, New York: UAHC Press, 1991.
Friedman, Daniel. "After Halakhah, What?" Humanistic
Judaism.Winter/Spring, 1996.
Frishman, Elyse D. "A Theology of Dialogue." In Sh'ma, 2/467, February 4,
1994.
Frymer-Kensky, Tikvah. "The Feminist Challenge to Halakhah," Harvard
Law School
1994. 12 April, 2006.
www.law.harvard.edu/programs/Gruss/frymer.html
Frymer-Kensky, Tikvah. "Halakhah, Law, and Feminism," Conservative
Judaism.
Winter, 1995.
Frymer-Kensky, Tikvah. "Toward a Liberal Theory of Halakhah," Tikkun.
July/August
1995.
Gibbs, Robert. Why Ethics? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
2000.
Gillman, Neil. "Authority and Parameters in Jewish Decision Making." The
Reconstructionist 59, no. 2 (Fall 1994), 73-79.
Goldstein, Nile E. and Peter S. Knobel. Duties of the Soul: The Role of
Commandments
in Liberal Judaism. New York: UAHC Press, 1999.
Gordis, Robert, ed., "Halakhah, Authority and the Future of Judaism." In
Judaism,
Winter 1980.
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Gutoff, Joshua. “Against the Law.” Conservative Judaism. Vol XLVII, No.
3, Spring
1995. 28-36.
Haas, Peter J. "Reform Judaism and Halacha: A Rapprochement?" In
Platforms and
Prayer Books: Theological and Liturgical Perspectives on Reform
Judaism. New
York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
Hartman, D. B. "Halakhah." In Contemporary Jewish Thought, E. Elston,
et. Al., eds.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Henkin, Alan. "Kashrut and Autonomy." In CCAR Journal, Vol. XLVI, No. 4,
Issue 183,
Fall 1999: 1-6.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. "Toward an Understanding of Halacha." In
Moral Grandeur
And Spiritual Audacity, ed. Ed. Susannah Heschel. New York:
Farrar, Strauss,
Giroux, 1996, 127-45.
Hirt-Manheimer, Aron. “Is it time to Chart a New Course for Reform
Judaism? Rabbi Richard Levy Says Yes—by Reclaiming Once Rejected
Practices in Pursuit of Holiness.” An interview from Reform Judaism.
Winter 1998, Vol. 27:2 pp.10, 12, 18-22, and 54. With response by Robert
Seltzer. “This is Not the Way: The present draft of Rabbi Levy’s ‘Ten
Principles’ fails to convey the distinctive, ongoing mission of our
movement.” pp 23-24.
Jackson, Bernard S. “Jewish Law or Jewish Laws?” The Jewish Law
Annual, Vol. VIII.
Jacob, Walter and Moshe Zemer, eds. Dynamic Jewish Law: Progressive
Halakhah. Tel
Aviv: Rodef Shalom Press, 1991.
Jacob, Walter. “‘The Law of the Lord is Perfect’: Halakhah and
Antinomism in Reform
Judaism.” CCAR Journal. Summer 2004. 72-84.
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Jacob, Walter, ed. Liberal Judaism and Halakhah. Pittsburgh: Rodeph
Shalom Press,
1988.
Jacob, Walter. "The Source of Reform Halachic Authority." In CCAR
Yearbook, 1980.
Jacob, Walter. "Standards Now." In Reform Judaism, Fall 1992.
Kunin, David. "The Halakhic Choice." In The Journal of Progressive
Judaism, No. 1, 1993.
Levy, Richard. "The Holy Makes Us Whole." Reform Judaism. Vol. 26, No
1. Fall, 1997.
Levy, Richard N. A Vision of Holiness: The Future of Reform Judaism.
New York: URJ
Press, 2005.
Markley, Geroge. "Educating Reform Jews Towards integration or
Differentiation." CCAR Journal Spring 1999
Mendes-Flohr, Paul. "Law and Sacrament: Ritual Observance in 20th
Century Jewish
Thought." In Jewish Spirituality. Ed. Arthur Green. New York:
Crossroad, 1987.
Mihaly, Eugene. "The Trouble with Limits." Reform Judaism, Winter 1994.
Morris, Leon. "Beyond Autonomy: The Texts and Our Lives." In Platforms
and Prayer
Books: Theological and Liturgical Perspectives on Reform Judaism.
New York:
Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
Newman, Louis. "Learning to be Led: Reflections on Reform Judaism and
Halakhah." In
Reform Jewish Ethics and the Halakhah: An Experiment in Decision
Making, Eugene B. Borowitz, ed. New Jersey: Behrman House,
1994.
Novak, David. "Jewish Theology." In Modern Judaism, October 1990.
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Plaskow, Judith. The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and
Sexual Ethics.
Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2005.
Plaut, W. Gunther. "Can We Speak of Reform Halacha?" In CCAR
Yearbook, 1982.
Plaut, W. Gunther. "There are Limits: A CCAR Responsum." In Refrom
Judaisn, Winter
1994.
Plaut, W. Gunther. "Reform Judaism, Past, Present and Future." In Journal
of Reform
Judaism, Summer 1980.
Plaut, W. Gunther. Reform as an Adjective: What are the Limits?" In The
Jewish
Condition: Essays on Contemporary Judaism Honoring Rabbi
Alexander M. Schindler, Aron Hirt-Manheimer, ed. New York: UAHC
Press, 1995, 350-361.
Podet, Mordecai. "Autonomy and Authority: The Dilemma of Reform." In
CCAR
Yearbook, 1982.
Rayner, John D. Jewish Religious Law: A Progressive Perspective. New
York: Berghahn
Book, 1998.
Roth, Joel. The Halachic Process, A Systemic- Analysis. New York: The
Jewish
Theological Seminary, 1986.
Scherman, Nosson. "Nonnegotiable Judaism." In Sh'ma, April 3, 1981.
Schreiber, Aaron M. Jewish Law and Decision-Making: A Study through
Time. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979.
Schulweis, Harold M.. "The Character of Halakhah Entering the TwentyFirst Century."
Conservative Judaism, Summer, 1993.
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Schulweis, Harold M. The Character of Halachah Entering the 21st
Century. Rabbinical
Assembly Keynote Address, March 22, 1993.
Seltzer, Robert. "This is not the Way." Reform Judaism, Winter, 1998.
Sokol, Moshe. Rabbinic Authority and Personal Autonomv. New Jersey:
Jason Aronson
Inc., 1992.
Stone, Ira, “From Middot to Mitzvot,” Conservative Judaism, 57, Summer
2005, 18-25.
Responses to Stone, 26-49.
Stroh, Michael S. and Rav Soloff. "Proposal for a National Beit Din." CCAR
Yearbook,
1987.
Tucker, Gordon. "God, the Good and Halakhah." Judaism, Vol. 38, 1989.
Wallach, Benno M. "Whatever Happened to Reform Judaism?" In CCAR
Journal, Winter
1997.
Washofsky, Mark. “Against Method: Liberal Halakhah between Theory and
Practice.”
http://www.huc.edu/faculty/faculty/washofsky/AgainstMethod.pdf
Washofshy, Mark. Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform
Practice. New York:
UAHC Press, 2001.
Washofsky, Mark. "Responsa and the Reform Rabbinate." In W. Gunther
Plaut and
Washofsky, Teshuvot for the Nineties. New York: CCAR, 1997, pp
xiii-xxix.
Wolf, Arnold J. "Post-Liberal Judaism." Reconstructionist, Summer, 1991.
Wolf, Arnold Jacob. “Reforming Reform Judaism.” From Judaism.
Summer 1999. 48:3.
pp 367-72.
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Yuter, Alan. "Is Halakhah Really Law?" The Jewish Law Annual, Vol., VIII.
Zemel, Daniel G. From Code to Guide: From Theology to Sociology."
Journal of Reform
Judaism, Winter 1988.
Zemer, Rabbi Dr. Moshe, Evolving Halakhah: A Progressive Approach to
Traditional
Jewish Law. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999.
CHOSENNESS/COVENANT/MISSION/UNIVERSALISM &
PARTICULARISM
"The 'Chosen People' Reconsidered: A Symposium." Reconstructionist.
September 1984.
Agus, Jacob B. "The Covenant Concept - Particularistic or Futuristic?" In
Journal of
Ecumenical Studies, Spring, 1981.
Blumenthal, David, Book Review: The Living Covenant by David Hartman,
AJS Review Vol. 12, No. 2, Autumn 1987.
Breitbart, Sidney. The Challenge of God to Man: A Theology of
Responsible Freedom. Vantage Press: New York. 1994
Breslauer, S. Daniel. Covenant and Community in Modern Judaism. New
York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Chapman, Lesley. "Educating Toward Commitment." CCAR Journal Spring
1999.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. “Judaism and Other Faiths,” The Myth of Religious
Superiority: Multifaith Explorations of Religious Pluralism, ed. Paul F.
Knitter. New York: Orbis Books, 2005.
Eisen, Arnold. The Chosen People in America. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press,
1983.
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Eisen, Arnold. "Kaplan and Chosenness: A Historical View." In
Reconstructionist,
September, 1984.
Eisen, Arnold. "The Rhetoric of Chosenness." Society.
November/December 1990.
Epstein, Lawrence J. "Jewish Universalism." Conservative Judaism. Spring
1992.
Friedman, Daniel. "Responsum." Humanistic Judaism. Autumn 1992.
Greenberg, Irving. "Voluntary Covenant." In Perspectives. New York:
National Jewish
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Greene, Daniel, “A Chosen People in a Pluralistic Nation: Horace Kallen
and the Jewish-American Experience, “Religion and American Culture: A
Journal of Interpretation Vol. 16, issue 2, 2006 The Center of Religion and
American Culture.
Hartman, David. A Living Covenant. New York: Free Press, 1985.
Held, Shai, The Promise and Peril of Jewish Barthianism: The Theology of
Michael Wyschogrod,” Modern Judaism 25:3, 2005.
Hertzberg, Arthur, and Hirt-Manehimer, Aron. “Relax. It’s OK to be the
Chosen People.” Reform Judaism Magazine. Summer 1998.
Hirsh, Richard A. "The Nuances of Chosenness: A Reconstructionist
Approach."
Reconstructionist, September 1984.
Jospe, Raphael. "The Concept of the Chosen People: An Interpretation."
Judaism. Spring
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Leibowitz, Yeshayahu. "The Uniqueness of the Jewish People." In
Jerusalem Quarterly,
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The National Council of Synagogues and The Bishops Committee for
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. “Reflections on Covenant and
Mission”.
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Novak, David. The Election of Israel, The Idea of the Chosen People. NY:
Cambridge
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Novak, David. Natural Law in Judaism. NY: Cambridge University Press,
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Olan, Levi. "Doctrine of the Chosen People Reaffirmed." In Judaism, Fall
1980.
Rosenthal, Gilbert S. “Some are Chosen, All are Loved.”
http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/metaelements/texts/cjrelations/resources/articles/rosenthal.htm. 5
Sacks, Jonathan, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of
Civilizations, New York: Continuum Books, 2002.
Schindler, Rabbi Alexander M. Presidential Address, San Francisco, 1993.
Quoted in
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1994.
Soloveitchik, Meir. “Locusts, Giraffes, and the Meaning of Kashrut” Azure
,23, Winter 2006.
Wyschogrod, Michael. Body of Faith: Judaism on Corporeal Election. New
York: The
Seabury Press, 1983.
Batnitzky, Leora. "On the Suffering of God's Chosen: Christian Views in
Jewish Terms"
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In Christianity in Jewish Terms, 203-220.
Borowitz, Eugene. Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the
Postmodern Jew.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1991.
Dorff, Elliot N. To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to
Modern Social
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Soloveichik, Meir. "God's Beloved: A Defense of Chosenness." Azure 19
(Winter 2005):
59-84.
Soulen, R. Kendall. "Israel and the Church: A Christian Response to Irving
Greenberg's
Covenantal Pluralism" In Christianity in Jewish Terms, 167-174.
Jospe, Raphael, Madesen, Turman, and Ward, Seth, Eds. Covenant and
Chosenness in
Judaism and Mormonism. Associated University Press, Cranbury,
NJ. 2001.
Kasper, Walter. "The Theology of the Covenant as Central Issue in the
Jewish-Christian
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Sandmel, David Fox. "Comments on Covenant."
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Solomon, Norman. "Covenant."
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Knobel, Peter S. "Reform Judaism and Religious Zionism", CCAR Journal.
Spring 1998.
pp. 22-25.
Williamson, Clark M. “Reversing the Reversal: Covenant and Election in
Jewish and
Process Thought” in Jewish Theology and Process Thought ed.
Sandra B.
Lubarsky and David Ray Griffin. SUNY Press. 1996
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EVIL AND GOD
(Also see Holocaust and God)
Birnbaum, David. God and Evil: A Jewish Perspective. Ktav Publishing
House,
Hoboken, N.Y., 1989.
Carmy, Shalom, ed. Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering.
Jason Aronson,
Inc., 1999.
Blumenthal, David. Facing the Abusing God. 1993.
Buber, Martin. Eclipse of God. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1952.
Buber, Martin. Images of Good and Evil. New York: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, Ltd.,
1952.
Bulka, Reuven. Critical Psychological Issues: Judaic Perspectives. New
York:
University Press of America, 1992.
Bulka, Reuven. Judaism on Pleasure. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aaronson,
Inc., 1995.
Bulka, Reuven. "To be Good or Evil: Which is More Natural?" In Journal of
Psychology
and Judaism, 14, 1990: 53-71.
Dorff, Elliot N. Knowing God: Jewish Journeys to the Unknowable. New
Jersey: Jason
Aronson, Inc., 1992.
Frankl, Victor E. Man's Ultimate Search for Meaning. New York: Plenum
Press, 1997.
Fuchs-Kraemer, Nancy. "The Problem of Evil: A Conversation," with Arthur
Green,
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Judith Plaskow, and Harvey Cox. Reconstructionist, Spring 1992.
Greenberg, Irving. "The Ethics of Jewish Power." In Beyond Occupation:
American
Jewish, Christian, and Plaestinian Voices for Peace, Rosemary
Radford Reuther
and Marc H. Ellis, eds. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990, 22-74.
Henkin, Louis. "The Constitution and Other Holy Writ: Human Rights and
Divine
Commands." In Judeo-Christian Traditions and the U. S.
Constitution, Jewish Quarterly Review Supp., 1989: 57-70.
Kamrass, Lewis H. "God and Evil: A Unified
Theodicy/Theology/Philosophy." In CCAR
Journal, XXXIX (2), Summer 1992: 73.
Kushner, Harold When Bad Things Happen to Good People New York:
Schocken Books, 1981.
Lara, María Pía. Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective
Judgment. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Leaman, Oliver. Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy. Cambridge:
Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
Ochs, Carol. Our Lives as Torah finding God in our own stories
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass 2001
Phillips, D. Z. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God. Minneapolis:
Fortress Press,
2005.
Plaskow, Judith. "Facing the Ambiguity of God." In Tikkun, Vol. 6, No. 5,
Sept./Oct.
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1991.
Plaskow, Judith. "What's Wrong with Hierarchy?" In Tikkun, Vol. 7, No. 1,
Jan./Feb.
1992.
Rosenberg, Shalom. Good and Evil in Jewish Thought. Tel Aviv: Mod
Books, 1989.
Rubenstein, Richard L. "Evil." In Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought,
Arthur A.
Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr, eds. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1987.
Schulweis, Harold. Evil and the Morality of God. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union
College
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OLDER WORKS
VARIETY OF TOPICS
Jacob B. Agus, Modern Philosophies of Judaism, A Study of Recent
Jewish Philosophies Of Religion, (New York, NY 1941, Behrman’s Jewish
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Berkovits, Eliezer. Major Themes in Modern Jewish Philosophy. New York:
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Jacobs, Louis. A Jewish Theology. New York: Berhrman House, 1973.
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Simon Noveck, editor, Great Jewish Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
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ALIYAH/GALUT
"Are We in Exile?: A Symposium." In Dimensions, Spring 1971.
Carmy, Shalom. "A View From the Fleshpots: Exploratory Remarks on
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Eisen, Arnold, "To Keep the Blessing--Why I am Making Aliyah."
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Halkin, Hillel. Letters to an American Jewish Friend. Philadelphia: Jewish
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AUTHORITY/HALAKHAH/ETHICS/REFORM JEWISH PRACTICE
Borowitz, Eugene. “The Autonomous Self and the Commanding
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Theological Studies, Vol. 45, 1984.
Chernick, Michael. "Position Paper on Halacha." In Halacha Community
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Gordis, Robert. "A Dynamic Halakhah: Principles and Procedures of
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Halivni, David Weiss. "Can a Religious Law be Immoral?" In Perspectives
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Assembly,
1979.
Kellner, Menahem Mark, ed. Contemporary Jewish Ethics. New York:
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Lichtenstein, Aaron, "Does Jewish Tradition Recognize an Ethic
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Martin, Bernard, ed. Contemporary Reform Jewish Thought. Chicago:
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Maslin, Simon J., ed. Gates of Mitzvah, New York; Central Conference of
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Cutter, William and Alan Hankin. "Universalism and Particularism: Where
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Plaut, Gunther. The Case for the Chosen People. Doubleday: New York.
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Frankl, Victor E. Psychotherapy and Existentialism. New York: Simon and
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Heschel, Abraham Joshua. "Confusion of Good and Evil." The Insecurity of
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Jonas, Hans. "The Concept of God after Auschwitz." In Out of the
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Wyschogrod, Michael. "Faith and the Holocaust." In Judaism, Summer
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FEMINISM
Christ, Carol and Judith Plaskow. Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader
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Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father. Boston: Beacon, 1973.
Ozick, Cynthia. "Notes Toward Finding the Right Question." In Lilith, No. 6,
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HEALING
Bulka, Reuven. Work, Love, Suffering, Death. New Jersey: Jason Aronson,
Inc., 1979.
"Jewish Values in the Post-Holocaust Future: A Symposium." In
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Lichtenstein, Morris. The Healing of the Soul. New York: Society of Jewish
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HOLOCAUST
Dorff, Elliot N. Judaism 26 (1977) 27-34. God and the Holocaust.
Neusner, Jacob. “The Implications of the Holocaust,” Journal of Religion.
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Wyschogrod, Michael. "Faith and the Holocaust." In Judaism, Summer,
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IMMORTALITY
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Matt, Herschel J. "An Outline of Jewish Eschatology." In Judaism, Spring
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Riemer, Jack, ed. Jewish Reflections on Death. New York: Schocken
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Schwartzschild, Stephen S. "The Personal Messiah: Toward the
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Heschel, Abraham J. The Insecurity of Freedom. Philadelphia: The Jewish
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Jacob, Walter. Christianity through Jewish Eyes. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union
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Soloveitchik, Joseph. "Confrontation." In Tradition, Spring 1964.
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MESSIANIC JUDAISM
Berger, David and Michael Wyschogrod. Jews and "Jewish Christianity".
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MESSIANISM
Berkovitz, Eliezer. Crisis and Faith. New York: Sanhedrin Press, 1976..
Cohen, Arthur. "Willing a Messianic Marginality." In Sh'ma, December
22,1972.
Jacobs, Louis. Principles of the Jewish Faith. New York: Basic Books,
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Schwarzschild Stephen. "The Messianic Doctrine in Contemporary Jewish
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Schwarzschild, Stephen. "The Personal Messiah ...Toward the Restoration
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Singer, David. "Jewish Messianism: A Contemporary Commentary." In
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Stitskin, Leon. "Rejoinder to Uriel Simon's 'The Biblical Destinies-Conditional
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PRAYER
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Blidstein, Gerald. "The Limits of Prayer: A Rabbinic Discussion." In
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Dorff, Elliot. "Two Ways to Approach God." In Conservative Judaism,
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Gertel, Elliot. "Theological Reflections on Music in Prayer." In Journal of
Synagogue
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Gittelsohn, Roland B. The Theological Foundations of Prayer: A Reform
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Heschel, Abraham Joshua. "The Vocation of the Cantor." In Insecurity of
Freedom
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Jacobs, Louis. "Current Theological Literature: Prayer." In Judaism, Spring
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Kravitz, Leonard. "The Problem of Prayer." In CCAR Journal, October,
1965.
Petuchowski, Jakob J. "Can Modern Man Pray?" In CCAR Yearbook,
1967.
Petuchowski, Jakob J. "The God We Worship." In Dimensions, Fall 1967.
Petuchowski, Jakob J., ed. Understanding Jewish Prayer. New York:
KTAV Publishing
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Slonimsky, Henry. "Prayer." In Essays. Cincinnati: HUC Press, 1967.
SECULAR JUDAISM
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Borowitz, Eugene B. The Masks Jews Wear: The Self-Deceptions of
American Jewry.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.
Maslow, A.H. Religious Values, and Peak-Experiences. New York:
Penguin, 1964.
ZIONISM AND POST-ZIONISM
Avineri, Shlomo. "Israel as the Normative Center of the Jewish People." In
Jewish
Frontier, December 1979.
Buber, Martin. Israel and Palestine. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1952.
Fisch, Harold. The Zionist Revolution. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978.
Halkin, Hillel. Letters to an American Jewish Friend. Philadelphia: Jewish
Publication
Society, 1977.
Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Israel: An Echo of Eternity. New York: Farrar,
Strauss and
Giroux, 1967.
Polish, David. Renew our Days. Jerusalem: World Zionist Organization,
1976.
Polish, David. "Towards a Progressive Theology of Zionism." In Judaism,
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WEB-BASED SEARCH TOOLS AND PERIODICAL DATABASES
There are now several databases that one can access online to search for
articles and, in some cases, find full-text versions from various journals. In
addition to Rav Google, here is a list of the sites students have found most
useful in their research:
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ATLA- American Theological Library Association
The premiere index to journal articles in all fields of religion along
with ATLA’s online full-text collection of major religion and theology
journals. Accessible through the new Jewish Study Portal at
http://jsp.huc.edu, or in-house at the HUC library.
JSTOR- The Scholarly Journal Archive
A searchable database for full-text articles from journals in a variety
of disciplines. Accessible through computers at the NYU library.
www.koldor.org
A website which offers a collection of information about and links to
current stories on issues which concern Israel and global Jewry.
The National Center for Jewish Healing is on the web at www.ncjh.org:
See especially under Tools and Resources: Bibliographies; SeRaF Resources
Project Muse
A searchable database for online access to full-text articles in over
300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals. Accessible
through computers at the NYU library.
RAMBI- The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies by the Jewish National
and University
Library. Citations to many scholarly journals and books in several
languages on
the topics of Jews, Judaism, Israel, humanities and social science.
Open access through the HUC library homepage
ww.ujc.org
Among a variety of other material, this site contains statistics and
analysis from the 2000-2001 National Jewish Population Survey.
Encyclopedia Judaica CD-ROM
Yad Vashem Database
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