Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice : Studies in Tradition and Modernity.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Shaping Jewish Life in an Open Society -- 1. A Response by Modern Orthodoxy to Jewish Religious Pluralism -- 2. German Orthodox Rabbinical Writings on the Jewish Textual Education of Women -- 3. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch to Liepman Phillip Prins of Amsterdam -- 4. An Ideology for the Liberal Jewish Day School -- 5. Denominationalism: History and Hopes -- 6. The Integrity of Reform within Kelal Yisra-el -- Part 2. Searching for a Balanced Theology -- 7. A Theology of Fear -- 8. Eugene B. Borowitz -- 9. Laws and Judgments as a "Bridge to a Better World" -- 10. Heschel and the Roots of Kavanah -- 11. Rabbi Hayim David Halevi on Christians and Christianity -- 12. Interreligious Learning and the Formation of Jewish Religious Identity -- Part 3. Visions for Israel -- 13. A Zionist Reading of Abraham Geiger and His Biblical Scholarship -- 14: National Sovereignty, Jewish Identity, and the "Sake of Heaven" -- 15: The Talmudic Principle "If One Comes Forth to Slay You, Forestall by Slaying Him" in Israeli Public Policy -- 16: The Rock from Which They Were Cleft -- 17: Moshe Zemer's Halakhah Shefuyah -- 18: Reform Zionism Today -- Part 4. Rabbis and the Rabbinate -- 19. Wissenschaft des Judentums, Historical Consciousness, and Jewish Faith -- 20. "Creative Misreadings" in Representative Post-Emancipation Halakhic Writings on Conversion and Intermarriage -- 21. A Portrait of the Poseq as Modern Religious Leader -- 22. Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits on Conversion -- 23. Transformation of the Rabbinate -- Source Acknowledgments -- Bibliography of the Published Writings of David Ellenson -- About David Ellenson.

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