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Making the Timeless Timely : Thoughts and Reflections of a Contemporary Reform Rabbi
author
:
Stahl, Samuel M.
publisher
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Nortex Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0890159319
print isbn13
:
9780890159316
ebook isbn13
:
9780585295664
language
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English
subject
Judaism--Study and teaching--Philosophy.
publication date
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1993
lcc
:
BM71.S73 1993eb
ddc
:
296.071
subject
:
Judaism--Study and teaching--Philosophy.
Page i
Making the Timeless Timely
Thoughts and Reflections of a Contemporary Reform Rabbi
By Samuel M. Stahl
Page ii
FIRST EDITION
Copyright 1993 By Samuel M. Stahl
Manufactured in the United States of America By Nortex Press / An Imprint of Sunbelt Media, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, except for brief passages included in a review appearing in a newspaper or magazine.
Page iii
For Lynn, Heather, and Alisa
Page v
CONTENTS
Foreword
by Samuel E. Karff
ix
Acknowledgment
xi
Introduction
xiii
I. Confronting Life's Challenges
Life's Three Most Difficult Tasks
2
Appropriate Self-Love
20
Making Friends: The Problems and the Joys
24
After the Honeymoon
29
Viewing Life Positively
31
Growing Pains
33
When Success Saddens
37
The Blessings of Failures
38
Uses and Misuses of Guilt
42
Good and Bad Luck Days
46
What I Learned from My Mother's Death
47
Winter Loneliness
54
II. Repairing Our World
How Virtuous Must Our Public Officials Be?
58
Is America a Christian Country?
62
Voluntary School Prayer: Its Dangers
66
Jews and Puritans
69
Jews and Blacks: Can We Revive the Old Alliance?
70
The Return of Capital Punishment
76
Page vi
A Perspective on Abortion
80
Animal Sacrifices and Animal Rights
84
The Synagogue and the AIDS Crisis
89
The Problem with JAP Jokes
93
Patriotism
98
On Criticizing Israel
100
III. Judaism and Other Religions
A Jewish Attitude toward Jesus
108
The Jew Confronts the Cross
113
The Christian-Jewish Dialogue: Obstacles and Opportunities
117
Was the Last Supper a Seder?
130
A Seder in a Christian Church
133
Who Are the Jews for Jesus?
138
Prayers that Hurt
141
Pope John Paul II: A Jewish Assessment
142
Martin Luther and the Jews
147
When Christian Science Attracted Jews
152
A Reform Rabbi Looks at Unitarianism
156
IV. Practicing Judaism
The Shofar: Judaism's Oldest Audio-Visual Instrument
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