02172cam a2200385 i 4500 1567173147 TxAuBib 20240906120000.0 230821s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023038955 9780374298340 hardback 0374298343 hardback (OCoLC)1375538370 TxAuBib rda Feldman, Noah, 1970-, author. To be a Jew today : a new guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish people / Noah Feldman. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. 2024. viii, 401 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-380) and index. Introduction -- Of God. The god of black and white ; The god of social justice ; The god whose law evolves ; Jews without god ; The struggle -- Of Israel. The idea of Israel ; Israel in the Jewish spirit ; Israel at the center ; Israel without Zionism ; Israel as struggle and the question of sin -- Of the Jewish people. What are the Jews? ; The chose ; The marriage plot ; Struggling together with God -- Conclusion: a Jew for all that. "A guide to contemporary Judaism by law professor and public intellectual Noah Feldman"-- Provided by publisher. What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship to God, to Israel, and to each other--and live their lives accordingly? 20240906. Judaism 21st century. Judaism Doctrines. God (Judaism.) Jews Identity. Israel History. TXKIP