Rethinking Jewish Faith, livre ebook

This book addresses the faith of a member of the "Second Generation"-the offspring of the original survivors of the Shoah. It is a re-examination of those categories of faith central to the Jewish Religious Experience in light of the Shoah: God, Covenant, Prayer, Halakhah and Mitzvot, Life-Cycle, Festival Cycle, Israel and Zionism, and Christianity from the perspective of a child of a survivor.

Foreword by Zev Garber

Foreword by Alan L. Berger

Introduction: Why? The Genesis of My Own Thinking

1. The Problem with God

2. Covenant: Involuntary? Voluntary? Nonexistent?

3. The Crises of Prayer

4. Halakhah and Mitzvot: Law and Commandments—
The Heart of the Matter

5. Rethinking the Jewish Life Cycle: From Birth to Death

6. Rethinking the Jewish Festival Cycle:
The Calendar in Question

7. Israel and Zionism in the Post-Shoah World

8. Rethinking Christianity: An Outsider's Perspective

9. Summarizing: Is Such Even Possible?

Appendixes

Appendix I: "[If] There Is No 'Commander'?...
There Are No 'Commandments'!"

Appendix II: "Rethinking Jewish [and Christian?] Faith
in Light of the Holocaust:
The Response of the Child of a Survivor"

Notes and Bibliography

Glossary

About the Author