Meryl Hyman

NO OF PAGES: 231 SUB CAT I: Jewish Roots SUB CAT II: Jewish - Christian Issues SUB CAT III: Jewish Law DESCRIPTION: Who is "Jewish enough" to be considered a Jew? And by whom? Some people interviewed in "Who Is a Jew?" argue?"The law is stronger than us. Israel will not cease to be. We can be diluted, we can be watered down, we can lose a lot of blood, we can lose six million physically and six million spiritually in almost the same generation. We will not vanish. A tenth will remain, and from that tenth everything will be rebuilt." -Rabbi Nachman Bulman, Ohr Somayach Yeshiva, Jerusalem; "I believe Israel needs to be a Jewish state. It cannot be an Orthodox state and to make it an Orthodox state will shrink it, and render it insignificant to the Jewish people." -Rabbi Dr. Ismar Schorsch, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; "You can't bridge the unbridgeable. The issue was, and remains, what will the State of Israel do? -Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, President, Union of American Hebrew Congregations; "Israel is the only country in the free democratic world which?denies Jews religious freedom." -Rabbi Uri Regev, Director and Counsel, The Israel Religious Action Center (Reform); "We are in the process of redefining what constitutes the Jewish identity." -Rabbi Prof. Jonathan Magonet, Principal, Leo Baeck College, (Reform and Liberal); "These things don't have an answer, they're part of a conversation." -Chief Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks, The United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (Orthodox)NOTES: Purchased at Half Price Books SUBTITLE: Conversations, Not Conclusions… (més)