Publisher's Synopsis
Essays in this volume include "A Voice from the Past, A Voice for Our Time: On the 200th Anniversary of Abraham Geiger's Birth" by Michael A. Meyer; "Authenticity and Impersonation: The Rabbi in Contemporary American Fiction" by Kevin Haworth; "The Disputation at Tortosa: Musings on Jewish Conceptions of "Self" and "Other" in Early Fifteenth Century Spain" by David Goldstein; "Maimonides and The Guide to the Perplexed: An Environmental Ethic for Our Time" by George Gittleman; "Zechariah's Blood, Bar Kamtza, and Learning from Tishah B'Av" by Allen S. Maller; "Samson Raphael Hirsch's Bible Project: A Liberal Appreciation" by Alan T. Levenson; "Lou Silberman's "The Theologian's Task" An Episode in the History of American Jewish Theology" by Karl A. Plank; "Red Socks: The Secret History of the Zohar at the Hebrew Union College-Cincinnati, 1977" by James Stone Goodman; "Voice and the Rabbi: The Art of Delivering a Sermon" by Sandra Kazan; God Doesn't Need a Name" by Rifat Sonsino; "With a Clear Prayer We Could See Forever: An Inquiry into "Salvation" in Today's Liberal Judaism" by Kenneth D. Roseman; "Who Gets the Water? A Jewish View of Health Care" in America" by Phil Cohen; An Adaptation of Liturgy to Personal Beliefs" by Nason Goldstein; "Genesis 38: The Birth of Peretz and the Family Traditions of Judah" by Michael D. Oblath; "A Principle of Inclusion: The Presence of Our Mothers in Midrashic Literature" by Seth M. Limmer as well as poetry by Alison Carb Sussman and Arlene Sarah Chernow, and book reviews.
