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This is a ground breaking collection of essays that takes a hard look at the Reform Movement today. Opening essays look at the problem of building a religous community, the competition in the "spiritual marketplace," and why people join or do not join a Reform synagogue. Other contributors look at a host of controversial issues including Patrilineal Descent, Outreach, Intermarriage, gender issues, gay and lesbian participation, and others.
Contents
Foreward; Introductionthe United States Today - D. Kaplan; Section 1: Where We Are Today: A Religious and Social Profile of Reform Judaism in the United States; When a Community is not a Community - Lewis A. Freidland; Reform Judaism in the Spiritual Marketplace - Richard Cimino; Why People in the Sunbelt join a Synagogue: Jewish Religious preferences in Palm Beach County - Joel L. Levine. Section 2: Legitimacy and Authenticity: The 'Sins' of yesterday and the controversies of today; When Reform Judaism Was Judaism - Jacob Neusner; Reform's Original Sin - Arnold Jacob Wolf; From the Christmas tree to the Yarmulke: What separates Classical Reform from Mainstream Reform? - Harold S. Silver; Full Churches, Empty synagogues: A defence of Classical Reform - Jay R. Brickman; Orthodoxy Confronts Reform: The Two Hundred Years' War - Aryeh Spero: Section 3: Personal Status; Not by Birth Alone: The Case for Missionary Judaism - Alexander Schindler; Patrilineal Descent Revisited - Steven Bayme; In Defence of Outreach - Eric Yoffie; Rabbinic Officiation and Intermarriage Ceremonies - Hillel Cohn; Section 4: Gender A Worthier Place - Karla Goldman; Embracing Lesbians and Gay Men: A Reform Judaism Innovation - Denise L. Eger; 'Where Kosher Means Organic and Union Label'; Bisexual Women Reembrace their Jewish Heritage - Hinda Seif: Section 5: Visions for the Future Leadership for Profound Change: A Means for TRansforming the American Reform Synagogue - Samuel K. Joseph; The Legitimacy of Reform Judaism: The Imapct of Israel in the United States - Ephraim Tabory; Reform Judaism at the New Millenium: A Challenge! - Alfred Gottschalk; Transforming the Reform Jew -Sheldon Zimmerman; Afterward - W.Gunther Plaut, About the Authors; Index.
