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Tables of Contents for Jewish Arguments and Counterarguments
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
David Harris
xiii
Introductory Essay
xv
JEWISH HISTORY AND JEWISH HISTORICAL MEMORY
Conflicting Jewish Responses to Modernity
3
20
Claude Montefiore, Lily Montagu, and the Origins of the Jewish Religious Union
23
22
The Jewish Community and the Teaching of American Jewish History
45
10
Freedom, Conscience, and Authority in Jewish Tradition
55
11
Assassinations: Ancient and Modern
66
6
Beshallach: Not Every Enemy Is Amalek
72
3
Saddam, Haman, and Amalek
75
3
Passover and Modern Jewish Identity
78
3
American Jewry Fifty Years after the Holocaust
81
12
THE FORMATION OF JEWISH IDENTITY IN AMERICA
Ideologies of Jewish Identity
93
11
American Jewry: Erosion or Renewal?
104
3
Judaism and American Public Life
107
4
Between Left and Right: A New Dialogue?
111
4
Teaching Kids Jewish Civic Responsibility
115
8
Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity
123
3
Two Roads to the Future
126
7
JEWISH FAMILY POLICY
Divorce: Jewish Style
133
3
Strengthening the Two-Parent Home
136
4
Finding Common Ground in the Family Policy Debate
140
3
Promoting the Jewish Family in the Diaspora
143
3
Changing Perceptions of Divorce
146
11
The Changing Jewish Family in the 1990s: Implications for the Synagogue
157
7
Between Tradition and Modernity: The Contemporary Family and Jewish Values
164
11
Can We Speak of Family Values Today? Jewish Teachings, Continuity and Repairing the American Family
175
11
Can Jewish Families Survive in Pagan America?
186
7
INTERMARRIAGE, JEWISH CONTINUITY, AND OUTREACH
Changing Perceptions of Intermarriage
193
18
Opportunities for Jewish Renewal
211
3
Communal Policy and Jewish Continuity: Future Guidelines and Directions
214
9
The Intermarriage Crisis
223
11
Failing to Address Crisis From Within
234
3
National Jewish Population Survey: Implications for the Rabbinate
237
9
Outreach to the Unaffiiated
246
27
Who Controls the Jewish Continuity Agenda?
273
7
Jewish Organizational Response to Intermarriage: A Policy Perspective
280
16
Outreach Has Its Risks
296
2
The Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Continuity Agenda
298
6
Assessing an Outreach Effort
304
9
INTRACOMMUNAL ISSUES: PLURALISM, OR THODOXY, AND JEWISH UNITY
A New Agenda for Tomorrow's Jewish Community?
313
17
``We're Okay, You're All Wrong''
330
4
Understanding Orthodox Dissent
334
3
Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood
337
9
Digging Their Heels into Pluralism
346
4
Panic on Pluralism Is Premature
350
3
Patrilineal Descent Revisited
353
11
From Coalitions to Partnerships to Mergers
364
5
ISRAEL-DIASPORA RELATIONS
Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Case of American Orthodoxy: A True Partnership?
369
16
Changing Patterns in Israel-Diaspora Relations
385
8
Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood: A Symposium in the Wake of the Rabin Assassination
393
7
Israel: Jewish or Post-Zionist?
400
4
Continue the Ne'eman Formula
404
3
Roundtable on Yossi Beilin's ``The Death of the American Uncle''
407
8
BOOK REVIEWS
Crisis in American Jewry: A Certain People: American Jes and Their Lives Today
415
4
Anarchism and Judaism, Jewish Radicals: From Czarist Stetl to London Ghetto
419
6
From Philanthropy to Activism: The Political Transformation of American Zionism in the Holocaust Years 1933-1945
425
2
British Jewry and the Holocaust
427
3
Torah and Science: The Men and Women of Yeshiva
430
4
Tradition or Modernity? Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew and Torah U'madda
434
10
Imagining the Jewish Future: Essays and Response
444
2
Whither American Jewry? Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry and Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century
446
7
Three-Part Strategy for Intermarriage: It All Begins with a Date: Preserving Jewishness in Your Family
453
4
Jewish Power: Inside the Jewish Establishment
457
5
Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States
462
3
The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century
465
4
Finding the Middle Ground: Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
469
4
Chasidim Do More Than Dance: The Religious Thought of Hasidim
473
2
Across the Great Divide: Jewish or Israeli? Israelis and the Jewish Tradition
475
6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ArtScroll and Scholarship
481
4
On Gays in the Parade
485
1
Engaging the Debate on Pluralism
486
2
Jewish Continuity
488
2
Conservative Judaism
490
2
Intermarriage
492
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