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  • Creative Judaism

    For those wanting to grasp “what all the excitement was about” when Judaism As A Civilization appeared, Creative Judaism was a quick and easy way into the discussion.

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  • What We Mean by Religion

    What We Mean By Religion focuses less on God as “the Power that makes for salvation…” than on a humanistic extraction of key ideas from each of the Jewish holidays.

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  • From Ira, I learned that Judaism is not an abstract idea, that religion does not exist in a vacuum, that religion is as religion does. Judaism begins with the Jewish people; religion is a human, social reality, one in which “Belonging precedes Believing” If we want to help Jews love and practice their heritage, we…

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  • In this piece, Jeffrey remembers a moment in which Ira helped him gain perspective on criticisms of his student rabbinate: “Ira and I talked at great length. Near the end of the conversation, Ira got a glint in his eye and a wry smile formed as he said:

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