The Identified Patient: Placing the Reform Movement in a Broader Family Context

From: Judaism | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

IF AMERICAN JUDAISM COULD BE TREATED IN A FAMILY therapy setting, Reform Judaism might well play the part of the "identified patient," the member of the family whose symptoms carry the distress and the issues that reside within the larger system and affect as well as implicate everyone. While Reform may be the place where the challenges and crises are most accessible and evident, the difficulties manifest in Reform Judaism today are evident throughout the entire North American Jewish community.

I raise this at the outset because while Dana Kaplan has crafted a comprehensive and challenging ...

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