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Judaism, Conservative

ובכן תן פחדך: Universalism Vs. Particularism in Contemporary Machzorim

What is the ideal relationship between Jews and the rest of humanity? A study of Ultra-Orthodox, Modern Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform High Holiday prayer books shows how each read the three uvechen “and so” additions to the amidah depending on their ideological worldviews. Perhaps there is wisdom in the prayer’s ambiguity.

Prof. Rabbi

Ruth Langer

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Judaism Intellectually Alive: Scholarship and Rabbinate Intertwined

Prof. Rabbi

Pamela Barmash

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Revelation and Authority: Author’s Presentation

Prof.

Benjamin D. Sommer

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In What Sense Did Orthodoxy Believe the Torah to be Divine?

Decades before Facebook, blogs, and the Internet, at a time Orthodoxy was trying to distinguish itself from the Conservative movement, ten Orthodox thinkers responded to the question of what the divine revelation of the Torah meant in Orthodox Judaism. Did they meet the challenge of Biblical Criticism?

Dr. Rabbi

Lawrence Grossman

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Revelation and Authority: Author’s Response

Prof.

Benjamin D. Sommer

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Experiencing Moments of Torah Mi-Sinai

A Personal Reflection

Dr.

Michael Carasik

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The Challenge of Biblical Scholarship: One Conservative Rabbi’s Perspective

Rabbi

David Wolpe

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“Who Wrote the Bible?” Challenged My Conservative Jewish Education

A single semester in college led to a crisis of faith and identity.

Lisa Jacobs

A Journey of Twenty Years with R. Dovid Steinberg

The first time I opened a Talmud was with Rabbi Dovid. Even years before his encounter with academic Bible, he always made space for me to argue points that I disagreed with. I became hooked on Torah study.

Bill Friedlieb