Best Contemporary Jewish WritingMichael Lerner Jewish culture, identity, and spirituality through the eyes of the brightest and best authors Best Contemporary Jewish Writing is a treasure trove of short stories, poetry, and essays from such renowned contributors as Naomi Wolf, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, William Safire, and Marge Piercy. Dive into this rich arrayof writing and you ll see that the Jewish experience reflects universal themes. The writers in this collection have something to say to Jews, not only to those struggling with their Jewish identity, and also to the wider world. Whether your main interest is in poetry or politics, spirituality or cultural identity, social healing or individual transformation, you ll find Best Contemporary Jewish Writing to be a collection that inspires, excites, and provokes. It also reflects the diversity of thought, opinion, and sensibility of today s best known Jewish thinkers and writers. This volume is the first in the much anticipated annual series "Best Jewish Writing." |
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Page 131
... created as the vehicle by which God created the human being , and in order to give emotional , aesthetic and biological sustenance to mankind . Nature in and of itself has no purpose without the existence of human beings to appreciate ...
... created as the vehicle by which God created the human being , and in order to give emotional , aesthetic and biological sustenance to mankind . Nature in and of itself has no purpose without the existence of human beings to appreciate ...
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... creation of humankind continues the themes of both the unique- ness of created things and their similitude with some differing other . The Creation of Adam and the Boundary of Sexuality God said , " Let us make adam in our image , after ...
... creation of humankind continues the themes of both the unique- ness of created things and their similitude with some differing other . The Creation of Adam and the Boundary of Sexuality God said , " Let us make adam in our image , after ...
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... created adam , he made him [ it ] in the likeness of God ; male and female he created them ( bar'am ) . And when they were created , he blessed them and called them adam . " I want to turn Trible's argument upside down and argue that in ...
... created adam , he made him [ it ] in the likeness of God ; male and female he created them ( bar'am ) . And when they were created , he blessed them and called them adam . " I want to turn Trible's argument upside down and argue that in ...
Contents
KENNETH KOCH | 3 |
Reversion and What Kind of Times Are These | 17 |
YEHUDA AMICHAI | 79 |
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Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition Steven Greenberg Limited preview - 2004 |