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| December 2004 Highlights
Jewish Sensibilities
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Vanessa Ochs:
TEN JEWISH
SENSIBILITIES
These ten sensibilities help us understand how our
Jewishness defines or contributes to the way we live.
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| Jeffrey Spitzer:
Ennobling Ignorance
Adherence to halakhah is not the issue; familiarity
with the relevant categories and their sources in classical texts
is.
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| Jonathan
Schofer:
In the Image of God
The idea that people are made in the image of
God—tzelem Elokim—is both anthropological and theological,
asserting some correspondence between the human and the Divine.
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| Dov
Lerea:
Sensibilities and Halakhah
The term “sensibility” highlights some of
the compelling strengths of a liberal community; it also points
to that community’s most unstable, intrinsic weaknesses.
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Koret Foundation Sh'ma Book Reviews
Mark Oppenheimer, Knocking
on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture.
Reviewed
by Stephen J. Whitfield .
(New Haven: Yale University Press): 273 pp., $30.00.
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| For
Sale: Living Words V: A Source Book on Israel in a Time of Struggle
A timely resource for rabbis, educators, and families to  address
the crisis in Israel. Included are High Holiday sermons, new rituals
for celebrating Israel's Independence Day, Responsa on the Prayer
for the Peace of Israel, essays and resource materials to teach
Israel in synagogues and schools.:
Available now www.Jflbooks.com
Foreword by Yitz Greenberg bookorders@JFLmedia.com.
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Quote of
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| “Jewish education, in school and at home, ought to provide more real-life experiences that both instill these ten sensibilities and provide skills for realizing them in daily life within a Jewish milieu—that is, connected to the sacred texts, traditions, communal experiences, and realities of Jewish life.” Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer
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