Democratizing Judaism
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2019
315 pages
978-1-61811-091-6 (ISBN)
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Jack J. Cohen
Democratizing Judaism
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12/2010
Academic Studies Press
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Rabbi Dr. Jack J. Cohen has had a long distinguished career as an educator, author and public servant. Before settling in Israel in 1961, he served as the Educational Director of Park Synagogue in Cleveland, the Director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, and the Rabbi of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism. During the last six and a half years of his tenure in the States, he also taught courses in the philosophy of religion and education at the Jewish Theological Seminary. In Israel, Dr. Cohen served for 23 years as the Director of the Hillel Foundation at Hebrew University and taught an annual seminar for students of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and a course in Jewish thought at the David Yellin College of Education. Dr. Cohen has been widely published in Jewish journals and is the author of a number of books, among them The Case for Religious Naturalism, Jewish Education in Democratic Society, The Reunion of Isaac and Ishmael, Guides for an Age of Confusion and Major Philosophers of Jewish Prayer in the 20th Century.
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Personal Introduction
- Theorist and Activist
- The Rational Mystic
- Toward a Theology of Experience
- Religious Education for Democracy
- On the Theology of Election
- Other Critics
- Naturalism and Supernaturalism
- Ethical Values in the Thought of Bertrand Russell and Mordecai M. Kaplan
- Reconstructionism Revisited
- A State with a Jewish Majority
- The Concept of a Jewish State
- What Is a Zionist State?
- The Western Wall
- A Theology of Ethics
- "Is This the Meaning of My Life?"
- A Rational Approach to the Idea of God
- When a Judge Steps off the Bench
- Index
