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Passionate centrism : one rabbi's Judaism / David J. Fine

Englisch

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield ; [New York] : United Synagogue Of Conservative Judaism, [2016]

2016

vii, 212 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references

978-0-8381-0086-8 paperback

0-8381-0086-4 paperback

*978-0-8381-0088-2 - ISBN *0-8381-0088-0

*Conservative Judaism ; Judaism

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BM197.5

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: [23] 296.8/342

Passionate centrism is an important discussion of Positive Historical Judaism and the benefit of holding the center of Judaism -- that is, the Conservative Movement. This book is an important resource for clergy and other congregational leaders and is an excellent product for lecture series

Principles of positive historical Judaism -- Liturgy: addressing the sacred -- Halakhah: living the sacred -- Sacred text -- Sacred history -- Finding God in history -- Appendix 1. Women and the minyan (2002) -- Appendix 2. The halakhah of same-sex relations in a new context -- Appendix 3. Solomon Schechter and the ambivalence of Jewish Wissenschaft (1997) -- Appendix 4. The meaning of Catholic Israel (1998)