Research Catalog

Title

Formulating responses in an egalitarian age / edited by Marc D. Stern.

Author

Orthodox Forum (13th : 2001 : Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, N.Y.)

Publication

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stern, Marc D.

Description

xi, 228 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In a range of ways and from a variety of perspectives from leading Orthodox scholars in the field, Formulating Responses in an Egalitarian Age explores the affinities and disaffinities between egalitarianism and Jewish tradition."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Orthodox Forum series

Uniform Title

Orthodox Forum series

Subject

• Equality > Religious aspects > Judaism > Congresses
• Orthodox Judaism > Doctrines > Congresses
• Women (Jewish law) > Congresses
• Gentiles (Jewish law) > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of a conference held at Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, N.Y., March 18-19, 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Egalitarianism and halacha : an introduction / by Marc D. Stern -- Formulating responses in an egalitarian age : an overview / by Aharon Lichtenstein -- Formulating responses in an egalitarian age : an overview / by Suzanne Last Stone -- Jews, gentiles and the modern egalitarian ethos : some tentative thoughts / by David Berger -- Jewish law and American public policy : a principled Jewish view & some practical Jewish observations / by Michael J. Broyde -- Changing conceptions of gentiles at the threshold of modernity : the Napoleonic Sanhedrin / by Jay R. Berkovitz -- Jews and Judaism in an egalitarian society : traditionalist responses in historical perspective / by Edward Breuer -- Modern Orthodox Jewish day schools and non-Jews / by Jack Bieler -- Re-committing to our mission : how hard an endeavor? / by Gidon Rothstein.

ISBN

• 0742545970 (hard)
• 0742545989 (pbk)

LCCN

^^2005008599

OCLC

• 61457748
• SCSB-11311270

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library