The Latest From Mark
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Strong Recommendation for “Come Now, Let Us Reason Together”
I am very pleased to have received the enthusiastic endorsement of my book, quoted below, from Rabbi Scott A Hoffman Ph.D, the spiritual leader of Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Louisville, KY. Rabbi Hoffman received his doctorate in rabbinics from NYU. I am very grateful that he invested his valuable time to read this text carefully…
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Short Video Summary of “Come Now, Let Us Reason Together”
By virtue of its length, this summary will necessarily be conclusory, omitting the many examples, citations to classical sources and modern scholarly ones. Even so, I believe it provides a useful preview of the important themes and arguments presented in my book. https://www.facebook.com/content/insights/?content_id=UzpfSTYxNTcxODkzNTA2NTUzOjEyMjExNTY1Mjk4MjcyOTc4MzoxMjIxMTU2NTI5ODI3Mjk3ODM%3D&entry_point=CometProfileInsightsPressablePostListItem
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My Own Private Judaism
One of the things that occurred to me in the course of researching and writing Come Now, Let Us Reason Together, is that the common, theologically based division of Judaism into three major “movements,” i.e. Orthodox/Conservative/Reform is both artificial and misleading. This construct both badly mischaracterizes the facts “on the ground” and perhaps more importantly…