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Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the WorldJudaism and Justice

By special arrangement with Jewish Lights Publishing, we are privileged to be running throughout this year a serialization of a new book by Rabbi Sid Schwarz entitled, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the Worldremote website. In the words of Dr. David Gordis, professor of rabbinics and president of Hebrew College in Boston, the book “provides a long awaited prophetic vision for the nexus between Jewish tradition, culture and a commitment to social justice…” Sid Schwarz is the president of PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values and is also the author of Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews can Transform the American Synagogue. You may purchase the book by clicking on the link or book cover.

What follows is a preview of the 11 segments that we will be running monthly through August 2007.

  1. excerpt from Foreword by Ruth Messinger
  2. Jewish Values in the Contemporary World (pps. 8-9)
  3. Abraham and “the Call” (pps. 34-35)
  4. From Political to Moral Consciousness (pps. 17-19)
  5. What Does God Have to do With It? (pps. 60-62)
  6. Understanding Jewish Political Behavior (pps. 100-101)
  7. Jews and the Struggle for Justice (pps. 116-117)
  8. Israel: Between Conscience and Solidarity (pps. 157-159)
  9. Jewish Priorities, Re-examined (pps. 186-188)
  10. Reconciling Exodus and Sinai (pps. 251-252)
  11. The Purpose of Religion (pps. 258-260)

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