Judaism and the future of religion in America: a symposium in response to Dana Evan Kaplan's American Reform Judaism.(Editorial)

From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

DANA EVAN KAPLAN'S BOOK PRESENTS A CONTROVERSIAL portrait of the contemporary American Reform movement. As editor of JUDAISM, I asked leaders of the various American Jewish religious streams to comment on his book, as a means of focusing a general discussion about the condition of Reform Judaism today. Since much of American Judaism is mirrored in the Reform movement, Dana Kaplan's book thus offers us the opportunity to begin an assessment of the religious developments of recent decades.

Kaplan portrays the Reform movement as dynamic and growing and simultaneously deeply ...

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