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Tables of Contents for Where We Stand
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
2
Acknowledgments
xiii
2
Introduction
xv
2
Editor's Note
xvii
I Jewish Identity
3
28
A Reform View of Jewish Law
3
5
ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER
The Reforming of Reform Judaism
8
7
MALCOLM H. STERN
"A Vote, Not a Veto": A Reconstructionist Approach to Halachah
15
4
LESTER BRONSTEIN
Halachah in Conservative Judaism
19
4
SEYMOUR SIEGEL
Halachah in Orthodox Judaism
23
8
BERNARD M. ZLOTOWITZ
II Making Informed Choices
31
40
Why Patrilineal Descent?
31
5
ALEXANDER M. SCHINDLER
Evolution and the Bible
36
3
ALLAN L. SMITH
Conversion
39
4
MAYER SELEKMAN
Are You What You Eat?
43
6
ROBERT H. LOEWY
The Messianic Age
49
11
EUGENE B. BOROWITZ
Are Jews the Chosen People?
60
5
GARY ZOLA
Klal Yisrael and Reform Judaism
65
6
ALLAN L. SMITH
III Relating to God
71
62
Belief in God
71
3
SHELDON ZIMMERMAN
How Does God Speak to People?
74
14
EUGENE B. BOROWITZ
God at Sinai
88
4
ALLAN L. SMITH
Worship and Prayer
92
8
IRA YOUDOVIN
Elements of Prayer
100
5
God without Pronouns
105
8
DEBBIE FLIEGELMAN
Wrestling with Ritual
113
7
MARGARET HOLUB
How to Be a Truly Spiritual Jew and Avoid the Pitfalls of Quick-Fix Religious Consumerism
120
13
JEFFREY K. SALKIN
IV Jewish Observance
133
42
How We Celebrate
133
13
SIMEON J. MASLIN
Origins of Our Symbols
146
8
BERNARD M. ZLOTOWITZ
Tradition's Table: Reform Mitzvah
154
3
LAWRENCE KUSHNER
The Roots of Shabbat
157
2
BERNARD M. ZLOTOWITZ
Understanding Shabbat
159
6
STEVEN SCHNUR
BERNARD M. ZLOTOWITZ
ARON HIRT-MANHEIMER
Jewish Text Study
165
10
AARON PANKEN
V Israel
175
30
Reform Jews and Israel: Why We Care
175
3
ERIC H. YOFFIE
Jerusalem and the Jews
178
9
CHAIM RAPHAEL
Don't Hang Up! Do I Have the Right to Criticize Israel?
187
3
DAVID J. FORMAN
Does Israeli Equal Jew?
190
8
RICHARD G. HIRSCH
The Right to a Homeland: Zionism from the Bible to Balfour to Today
198
7
MICHA BALF
MEIR YOFFE
VI Critical Issues on Campus
205
82
Reform on Campus
205
5
DAVID TERDIMAN
Grades Are a Means, Knowledge Is an End
210
8
HENRY F. SKIRBALL
Anti-Semitism on Campus
218
9
Denying the Holocaust
227
13
Cults
240
11
STEVEN HASSAN
RACHEL ANDRES
JAMES R. LANE
Missionaries
251
8
STUART FEDEROW
Looking Ahead: An Introduction to Black-Jewish Relations
259
6
ALBERT VORSPAN
DAVID SAPERSTEIN
Feminism and Judaism
265
7
DEBBIE FLIEGELMAN
A Turning Point in Interfaith Relations?
272
7
A. JAMES RUDIN
The Boundaries of Pluralism
279
8
GARY BRETTON-GRANATOOR
VII Choosing Life
287
30
To Do or Not To Do: Peer Pressure
287
4
BARBARA COHEN
Suicide
291
5
RAMIE ARIAN
A Jewish Way of Eating
296
5
ALLEN ROSS
STUART COPANS
Substance Abuse in the Jewish Community: A Historical Perspective
301
5
KERRY M. OLITZKY
Saving a Life: A Jewish Response to AIDS
306
11
HOWARD I. BOGOT
VIII Sex and Sexuality
317
34
Jewish Sexual Ethics
317
4
MARK GLICKMAN
Abortion
321
6
GLYNIS CONYER REISS
Homosexuality: A Reform Jewish Perspective
327
8
JOHN E. HIRSCH
Rape and Jewish Law
335
7
MELINDA PANKEN
Acquaintance Rape
342
9
JAMES D. SEWELL
IX Family
351
34
The Elders Who Stand at the Gates of the City
351
5
GERARD W. KAYE
The Family: What It Is and How It Works
356
5
SANFORD SELTZER
We're in Love, But... Intermarriage and the Reform Movement Today
361
5
SHARON FORMAN
A Jewish View of Divorce
366
4
ROLAND B. GITTELSOHN
"You Shall Rise Before the Aged and Show Deference to the Old"
370
6
RUSSELL SILVERMAN
What Does Judaism Say About Death and Dying?
376
9
BERNARD M. ZLOTOWITZ
X Social Action
385
28
Mandate for Social Justice
385
4
DAVID SAPERSTEIN
Preserving the Environment: The Ultimate Havdalah
389
6
PETER E. KASDAN
Homelessness
395
5
RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER
Hunger
400
5
RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER
Racism
405
8
JOEL E. SOFFIN
XI Government Issues
413
36
Separation of Church and State
413
7
RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER
Capital Punishment
420
7
JUDEA B. MILLER
Gun Control
427
7
ALBERT VORSPAN
DAVID SAPERSTEIN
Bioethics
434
8
RICHARD F. ADDRESS
Can a Jew Be a Conscientious Objector?
442
7
PHILIP J. BENTLEY
Endnotes
449
10
Credits
459