Chanukah: The Festival of Affirmation
November 13, 2015
The holiday that presents the greatest challenge to the creativity of the modern Jew is Hanukkah.
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The holiday that presents the greatest challenge to the creativity of the modern Jew is Hanukkah.
Continue readingReligion is concerned with the whole man and involves his entire being, psyche, and body, but it relates essentially and directly to the psyche.
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Download Printable Version The name “Jew” is in crisis. A word of intense power, it is often a source of confusion and conflict for a modern liberal religionist who bears the name. Accordingly, there are clear indications that if the…
Continue readingNo subject produces sharper divisions among contemporary Jews than that of the Halakhah.
Continue readingAn invisible holocaust bringing silent death is consuming American Jewry. Yet no one mourns as the victims go softly into the night.
Continue readingThe Tercentenary of the death of Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) occurs this year. For taking philosophic and theologic positions disapproved of by the Jewish community of Amsterdam, Spinoza, at the age of twenty-four, was excommunicated.
Continue readingThe Freedom Covenant, to which all Polydox or liberal Jews subscribe, establishes clearly the right of individual Polydoxians or Polydox groups to celebrate festivals and rituals at such times and in such ways as provide the most meaningful observance.
Continue readingIn no community has the subject of exile played a more significant role than among the Jews.
Continue readingReality is not revealed to man as a gift. In the primordial world of the infant—as in the primitive state of the human race—reality and illusion commingle in a coruscating kaleidoscope.
Continue readingThe question of Jewish survival from the viewpoint of theology, which is the subject embraced by a theology of Jewish survival, is to a considerable degree an abstract inquiry.
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