Jewish Arguments and Counterarguments: Essays and Addresses Book

	Foreword
	Introductory Essay
	Jewish History and Jewish Historical Memory
	Conflicting Jewish Responses to Modernity	3
	Claude Montefiore, Lily Montagu, and the Origins of the Jewish Religious Union	23
	The Jewish Community and the Teaching of American Jewish History	45
	Freedom, Conscience, and Authority in Jewish Tradition	55
	Assassinations: Ancient and Modern	66
	Beshallach: Not Every Enemy Is Amalek	72
	Saddam, Haman, and Amalek	75
	Passover and Modern Jewish Identity	78
	American Jewry Fifty Years after the Holocaust	81
	The Formation of Jewish Identity in America
	Ideologies of Jewish Identity	93
	American Jewry: Erosion or Renewal?	104
	Judaism and American Public Life	107
	Between Left and Right: A New Dialogue?	111
	Teaching Kids Jewish Civic Responsibility	115
	Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity	123
	Two Roads to the Future	126
	Jewish Family Policy
	Divorce: Jewish Style	133
	Strengthening the Two-Parent Home	136
	Finding Common Ground in the Family Policy Debate	140
	Promoting the Jewish Family in the Diaspora	143
	Changing Perceptions of Divorce	146
	The Changing Jewish Family in the 1990s: Implications for the Synagogue	157
	Between Tradition and Modernity: The Contemporary Family and Jewish Values	164
	Can We Speak of Family Values Today? Jewish Teachings, Continuity and Rapairing the American Family	175
	Can Jewish Families Survive in Pagan America?	186
	Intermarriage, Jewish Continuity, and Outreach
	Changing Perceptions of Intermarriage	193
	Opportunities for Jewish Renewal	211
	Communal Policy and Jewish Continuity: Future Guidelines and Directions	214
	The Intermarriage Crisis	223
	Failing to Address Crisis From Within	234
	National Jewish Population Survey: Implications for the Rabbinate	237
	Outreach to the Unaffiliated	246
	Who Controls the Jewish Continuity Agenda?	273
	Jewish Organizational Response to Intermarriage: A Policy Perspective	280
	Outreach Has Its Risks	296
	The Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Continuity Agenda	298
	Assessing an Outreach Effort	304
	Intracommunal Issues: Pluralism, Orthodoxy, and Jewish Unity
	A New Agenda for Tomorrow's Jewish Community?	313
	"We're Okay, You're All Wrong"	330
	Understanding Orthodox Dissent	334
	Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood	337
	Digging Their Heels into Pluralism	346
	Panic on Pluralism Is Premature	350
	Patrilineal Descent Revisited	353
	From Coalitions to Partnerships to Mergers	364
	Israel-Diaspora Relations
	Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Case of American Orthodoxy: A True Partnership?	369
	Changing Patterns in Israel-Diaspora Relations	385
	Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood: A Symposium in the Wake of the Rabin Assassination	393
	Israel: Jewish or Post-Zionist?	400
	Continue the Ne'eman Formula	404
	Roundtable on Yossi Beilin's "The Death of the American Uncle"	407
	Book Reviews
	Crisis in American Jewry: A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Today	415
	Anarchism and Judaism, Jewish Radicals: From Czarist Stetl to London Ghetto	419
	From Philanthropy to Activism: The Political Transformation of American Zionism in the Holocaust Years 1933-1945	425
	British Jewry and the Holocaust	427
	Torah and Science: The Men and Women of Yeshiva	430
	Tradition or Modernity? Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew and Torah U'madda	434
	Imagining the Jewish Future: Essays and Response	444
	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
	Three-Part Strategy for Intermarriage: It All Begins with a Date: Preserving Jewishness in Your Family	453
	Jewish Power: Inside the Jewish Establishment	457
	Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States	462
	The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century	465
	Finding the Middle Ground: Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America	469
	Chasidim Do More Than Dance: The Religious Thought of Hasidim	473
	Across the Great Divide: Jewish or Israeli? Israelis and the Jewish Tradition	475
	Letters to the Editor
	ArtScroll and Scholarship	481
	On Gays in the Parade	485
	Engaging the Debate on Pluralism	486
	Jewish Continuity	488
	Conservative Judaism	490
	Intermarriage	492