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1944

1. Review of The Stream of Religious Life, by Dorothy Alofsin. Hebrew Union College Monthly (February 1944):18.

2. "Waldo Frank & the Jew in Our Day, " Hebrew Union College Monthly (December 1944):19-20.

1945

3. "In the Beginning," "Records of the Ages," "All Work and No Play," "That for Which We Stand," and "Teachers of Our Teachers," The Jewish Layman 20, no. 2: 4-19.

4. "Reform's Bridge to the Future," Liberal Judaism 12, no. 12 (April 1945): 20-25.

5. Review of Germany's Stepchildren, by Solomon Liptzin. Hebrew Union College Monthly (February 1945):18.

6. Review of One God, The Ways We Worship Him, by Florence Mary Fitch. Hebrew Union College Monthly (May 1945):12.

7. Review of Poems by A.M. Klein. Hebrew Union College Monthly (May 1945):12.

8. Review of The Relevance of the Bible, by H. H. Rowley. Hebrew Union College Monthly (May 1945):12.

1946

9. "Comment" [weekly column], Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 23 August-18 October, 1946.

10. Review of One Destiny, by Sholem Asch. Chicago Jewish Forum 4, no. 3 (Spring 1946): 210-11.

11. Review of A Partisan Guide to the Jewish Problem, by Milton Steinberg. Hebrew Union College Monthly (January 1946):16.

12. "Sermon Silhouette [for] Eugene B. Borowitz," Hebrew Union College Monthly (January 1946):14.

1948

13. (In collaboration with Rav A. Soloff and Arnold J. Wolf). Ring Around a Haman: a Purim play. Cincinnati: n.p., 1948.

1949

14. Eretz [pseud.], "The Rabbi who Assists," Hebrew Union College Quarterly 36, no. 2 (June, second quarter 1949): 4-6.

15. "To Publicize the Miracle" [pamphlet], St. Louis, MO: Shaare Emeth Congregation.

16. "Mass Contests as a Chanuko Stimulant," The Jewish Teacher 18, no. 1 (November 1949): 1-4.

1950

17. (In collaboration with Rav A. Soloff and Arnold J. Wolf). Kings or Better: a Purim play. Cincinnati: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1950.

18. "Theological Conference: Cincinnati, 1950," Commentary 19 (June 1950): 567-72.

18a. To Publicize the Miracle, a Guide for Celebrating Chanuko, Cong. Shaare Emeth: St. Louis, MO, 1950.

1952

19. "Mommy, Why Can't I Have a Christmas Tree?" [response], American Judaism 2, no. 1 (November 1952): 12.

20. (In collaboration with Arnold J. Wolf). Postscript to Purim [a play]. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1952.

20a. (In collaboration with Sam Fishman and Irwin Rich), “Annie Get Your Fun,” The Youth Leader, Vol. XIII, No. 1, Spring 1952.

1956

21. "Creating Commitment in Our Religious Schools," The Jewish Teacher 24, no. 3 (March 1956): 7-12.

Reprinted in Judaism and the Jewish School, edited by Judah Pilch and Meir Ben Horin. New York: Bloch, 1966.

22. "Reform's Interest in Halakhah," The Reconstructionist 21, no. 20 (February l0, 1956): 9-13.

22a. “Questions and Answers for Quiz Programmes,” (with Bernard Hooker), The Jewish Youth Group, John D. Rayner and Henry F. Skirball, eds., London: World Union for Progressive Judaism, 1956.

22b. Review of The Still Small Voice, The Story of Jewish Ethics, Book One. The Jewish Teacher, Vol. XXIV, No. 4, May 1956.

1957

23. "The Idea of God," CCAR Yearbook 67 (1957): 174-186.

Reprinted in Reform Judaism: a Historical Perspective, edited by Joseph L. Blau. New York: Ktav, 1973.

23a. Review of Theodor Herzl, A Portrait for this Age, ed. Ludwig Lewisohn. The Jewish Teacher, Vol. XXV, No. 2, Jan. 1957.

1958

24. "Have You Seen the Messiah?" [editorial], The Jewish Teacher 27, no. 1 (November 1958): 2.

25. "The Idea of God," The Reconstructionist 24, no. 7 (May 16, 1958): 14-19.

Based on the 1957 speech to the CCAR (23), this includes a reply from Mordecai Kaplan.

26. "Reconstructionism in Reform Judaism," The Reconstructionist 24, no. 1 (February 21, 1958): 26-28.

27. "Theology and Jewish Education," Religious Education 53, no. 5 (September-October 1958): 418-21.

27a. Editor, An Outline of the Curriculum for the Jewish Religious School, New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1958 (and 59, 60, 61).

1959

28. "Existentialism's Meaning for Judaism," Commentary 28 (November 1959): 414-20.

29. "An Existentialist View of God," Jewish Heritage 2, no. 2 (Fall 1959): 5-9.

30. An Outline of the Curriculum for the Jewish Religious School Recommended by the Commission on Jewish Education. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1959, 1960, 1962.

31. "Teaching the Knowledge of God," The Jewish Teacher 27, no. 3 (March 1959): 21-26.

32. "Why Do We Teach?" [editorial], The Jewish Teacher 27, no. 3 (March 1959): 2.

1960

33. "Down With Fun-day School" [editorial], The Jewish Teacher 29, no. 1 (October 1960): 2.

34. "Toward a Theology of Reform Jewish Practice," CCAR Journal 8, no. 1 (April 1960): 27-33.

1961

35. "Crisis Theology and the Jewish Community," Commentary 32 (July 1961): 36-42. (Correspondence regarding this article appeared in the November 1961 issue, p. 440-41.)

Reprinted in condensed form as “A Theology for Modern Judaism, in The Jewish Digest, Feb. 1962.

36. "Hillel's 5th 'Little Book'" [review of Faith and Reason, by Samuel H.Bergman], National Jewish Monthly 75, no. 10 (June 1961): 24.

37. "A Jewish View of Education." In Philosophies of Education, edited by Philip H. Phenix. New York: John Wiley, 1961.

38. "Love." In D'var Torah. [New York:] National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, 1961.

39. "Problems Facing Jewish Educational Philosophy in the Sixties," American Jewish Yearbook 62 (1961): 145-163.

40. "The Realities are Changing!" [editorial], The Jewish Teacher 30, no. 1 (October 1961): 2.

41. Review of Martin Buber: Religious Existentialist, by Malcom (sic) Diamond. The Jewish Teacher 30, no. 2 (December 1961): 18.

42. Review of Religious Education, edited by Marvin J. Taylor. The Jewish Teacher 30, no. 1 (October 1961): 24.

43. "Solving the Theological Problems Involved in Teaching the Bible," The Jewish Teacher 29, no. 4 (April 1961): 10-14.

44. "Who is Israel?," Jewish Heritage 4, no. 2 (Fall 1961): 5-10.

1962

45. "A Comment" [response to article by Norman Frumer], Judaism 11, no. 2 (Spring 1962): 154-5.

46. "The Editor's Bookshelf," The Jewish Teacher 30, no. 3 (February 1962): 18.

46a. Review of A Faith for Moderns, Robert Gordis. CCAR Journal, Vol. X, No. 1, issue 37, (April 1962).

47. The Jewish Need for Theology," Commentary 33 (August 1962): 138-44.

Reprinted in condensed form as “Folk and Faith,” in The Jewish Digest, Vol. VIII, No. 3, (March 1963).

Reprinted in Relevants, edited by Edward Quinn and John Dolan. New York: Free Press, 1970.

48. "Judaic Roots of Modern Education." In Heritage of American Education, edited by Richard E. Gross. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1962.

An excerpt from this chapter appeared as "The Decisive Moment in the History of Jewish Education,The Jewish Teacher 30, no. 3 (February 1962): 16-17.

1963

49. Ben Hamon [pseud.], "The Reform Rabbis Debate Theology," Judaism 12, no. 4 (Fall 1963): 479-486.

50. "Faith and Method in Modern Jewish Theology," CCAR Yearbook 73 (1963): 215-228.

51. "Jewish Education is an Act of Faith," The Jewish Teacher 31, no. 4 (April 1963): 21-22.

52. Review of Evangelical Theology: An Introduction, by Karl Barth. The Jewish Teacher 31, no. 4 (April 1963): 28.

53. Review of Existentialism and Religious Liberalism, by John F. Hayward and The Retreat to Commitment, by William Warren Bartley. The Jewish Teacher 31, no. 4 (April 1963): 28.

54. Review of The Natural and the Supernatural Jew, by Arthur A. Cohen. The Jewish Teacher 31, no. 4 (April 1963): 31.

55. Review of The Nature of Man in Theological and Psychological Perspective, edited by Simon Doniger. The Jewish Teacher 31, no. 4 (April 1963): 28.

56. Review of The Story of Jewish Philosophy, by Joseph L. Blau. The Jewish Teacher 31, no. 4 (April 1963): 30.

57. "Two Modern Approaches to God," Jewish Heritage 6, no. 2 (Fall 1963): 10-16.

1964

58. "Creative Worship in the Computer Age," American Judaism 14, no. 1 (Fall 1964): 48-49.

Published in condensed form as "Judaism and the Computer," Jewish Digest 10 (February 1965): 69-71.

59. "Jewish Faith and the Jewish Future." In Great Jewish Ideas, edited by Abraham E. Millgram. Washington, DC: B'nai Brith, 1964.

60. "Martin Buber Under Attack" [precis of a lecture], Congregation Habonim Bulletin, May 1964.

61. "On Dealing with Doubt," The Jewish Teacher 33, no. 2 (December 1964): 15-18.

62. "Recent Books on Theology, 1963-4," CCAR Journal 12, no. 3 (October 1964): 84-5.

63. Review of Problematic Rebel, by Maurice S. Friedman. Conservative Judaism 18, no. 3 (Summer 1964): 69-71.

64. Subjectivity and the Halachic Process," Judaism 13, no. 2 (Spring 1964): 211-219.

65. "Tension in Reform Judaism," The Christian Century 81, no. 23 (June 3, 1964): 729-32.

66. "Theological Issues in the New Torah Translation," Judaism 13, no. 3 (Summer 1964): 335-45.

67. "The Trick is to Keep at It" [excerpts from a speech given at BBYO's 1st Annual Eastern Judaism Institute]. In In Review. Washington, DC: B'nai Brith Youth Organization, 1964.

68. "Unity and Reality in Mordecai Kaplan's View of God," Jewish Education 34, no. 2 (Winter, 1964): 96-103.

69. "Why Don't We Pray in Our Synagogues?," Keeping Posted 10, no. 5 (December 1964): 5.

70. "Why We Went," Christian Century 81, no. 35 (August 26, 1964): 1061-2.

1965

71. A Layman's Introduction to Religious Existentialism. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965.

72. "Believing Jews and Jewish Writers," Judaism 14, no. 2 (Spring 1965): 172-186.

73. "Bonhoeffer's World Comes of Age," Judaism 14, no. 1 (Winter 1965): 81-87.

74. "Individual and Community in Jewish Prayer." In Rediscovering Judaism, edited by Arnold J. Wolf. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1965.

Reprinted in Gates of Understanding, edited by Lawrence A. Hoffman. [New York:] Central Conference of American Rabbis and Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1977.

75. "A Jewish-Catholic Colloquy," Congress Biweekly 32, no. 5 (March 1, 1965): 7-8.

76. "Jewish Theology: Milton Steinberg and After," The Reconstructionist 31, no. 7 (May 14, 1965): 7-14.

77. "Judaism in Transition" [report on CBC broadcast], CBC Times 18, no. 4 (July 24, 1965): 6-7.

78. "The Openness of Catholic Theology," Judaism 14, no. 2 (Spring 1965): 212-19.

79. Participant in symposium, "The Quest for Jewish Values -- Part II: Questions for Thinking Jews," Jewish Heritage 8, no. 1 (Summer 1965): 28-43.

80. "Teilhard de Chardin," Judaism 14, no. 3 (Summer 1965): 330-8.

1966

81. "Christkillers No More: Jewish Education and the Second Vatican Council," Religious Education 61, no. 5 (October 1966): 344-8.

82. "God-Is-Dead Theology," Judaism 15, no. 1 (Winter 1966): 85-94.

Reprinted in The Meaning of the Death of God, edited by Bernard Murchland. New York: Random House, 1967.

83. "The Legacy of Martin Buber," Union Seminary Quarterly Review 22, no. 1 (November 1966): 3-17.

84. "On Celebrating Sinai," CCAR Journal 13, no. 6 (June 1966): 12-23.

85. "On the 'Commentary' Symposium: Alternatives in Creating a Jewish Apologetic," Judaism 15, no. 4 (Fall 1966): 458-465.

86. "On the New Morality," Judaism 15, no. 3 (Summer 1966): 329-336.

87. "Recent Books on Theology, 1964-5," CCAR Journal 13, no. 1 (January 1966): 75-80.

88. Response in "The State of Jewish Belief: A Symposium," Commentary 42 (August 1966): 80-82.

89. "Toward Jewish Religious Unity: a symposium" [discussion comments], Judaism 15, no. 2 (Spring 1966): 158-9.

90. "The Typological Theology of Rabbi Joseph Baer Soloveitchik," Judaism 15, no. 2 (Spring, 1966): 203-10.

91. "Utilizing Programmed Instruction in Teaching the Reading of Hebrew," The Jewish Teacher 34, no. 4 (April 1966): 28-30.

91a. Excerpt (of ?) on “The Synagogue in American Life and Its Future, Dimensions and Horizons for Jewish Life in America, Philip Goodman, ed., New York: National Jewish Welfare Board, 1966.

91b. “Responsible Parenthood,” Discussant, The Vatican Council and the World of Today, Providence: Brown University, 1966.

1967

92. "A Call for Ecumenical Polemics," Religious Education 62, no. 2 (March-April 1967): 107-12.

93. Facing Up to It [pamphlet]. London: Reform Synagogues of Great Britain, 1967.

94. Introduction to Essays by Henry Slonimsky. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1967.

95. "Jewish Values in the Post-Holocaust Future: a symposium" [discussion comments], Judaism 16, no. 3 (Summer 1967): 293-4.

96. "Judaism and Christianity" [excerpt from Commentary symposium (88)], The Sign 46, no. 11 (June 1967): 42-3.

97. (In collaboration with Walter Wurzberger). Judaism and the Interfaith Movement. New York: Synagogue Council of America, n.d. [Papers presented at a conference, February 22, 1967]

98. "Our Teenagers Tomorrow," Living Judaism 1, no. 4 (Summer 1967): 104-108.

Reprinted with two other lectures in Facing Up To It (93).

99. "Recent Books on Theology 1965-6," CCAR Journal 14, no. 3 (June 1967): 71-6.

100. Editor, The Story of Prophecy by Hannah Grad Goodman. New York: Behrman House, 1967.

1968

101. A New Jewish Theology in the Making. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968.

102. "Autonomy Versus Tradition," CCAR Journal 15, no. 2 (April 1968): 32-43.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

103. "Confronting Secularity." In The Paradox of Religious Secularity, edited by Katharine Hargrove, R.S.C.J. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

104. "Contemporary Forces & Trends," JWB Circle 23:4 (June 1968): 2+.

105. "Hope Jewish and Hope Secular," Judaism 17, no. 2 (Spring 1968): 131-47.

Reprinted in The Future as the Presence of Shared Hope, edited by Maryellen Muckenhirn. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1968. A revised version appeared in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "Hope Jewish and Hope Secular, a Response to Jürgen Moltmann."

106. "Judaism and the Secular State,"Journal of Religion 48, no. 1 (January 1968): 22-34.

An expanded version appeared in Religion and Public Education, edited by Theodore Sizer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. This version was reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

107. "Mashma'uto ha-datit shel tayatron ha-absurd," Prozdor 11-12 (Tishri 5768): 120-3.

Translated from chapter nine of A Layman's Introduction to Religious Existentialism.

108. "Recent Books on Theology," CCAR Journal 15, no. 4 (October 1968): 90-98.

1969

109. Choosing a Sex Ethic. New York: Schocken, 1969.

A two-part excerpt from this book was published as "Choosing a Sex Ethic," National Jewish Monthly 84, no. 6 (February 1970): 25-34, and "Speaking Personally," National Jewish Monthly 84, no. 7 (March 1970): 58-64.

110. How Can A Jew Speak of Faith Today? Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1969.

111. "Autonomy and Institutions" [three lectures with comments], Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis, Yearbook 13 (1969): 37-71.

112. "The Future of Rabbinic Training in America; A Symposium" [response], Judaism 18, no. 4 (Fall 1969): 404-5.

113. Panelist, 20 Years Later: The Impact of Israel on American Jewry. New York: American Histadrut Cultural Exchange Institute, 1969.

114. "Recent Books on Theology," CCAR Journal 16, no. 3 (June 1969): 54-60.

115. Review of Birth Control in Jewish Law, by David M. Feldman. National Jewish Monthly 83, no. 7 (March 1969): 88-9.

116. Review of God of Daniel S, by Alan Miller. New York Times, 26 October 1969, sec. 7, p. 73. (Letter from Rabbi Ira Eisenstein in response to this review appeared in New York Times, 23 November 1969, sec. 7, p. 46.)

117. Review of Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth. Dimensions 3, no. 4 (Summer, 1969): 48-50.

1970

118. "Aspects of Jewish Theology." In Image of the Jews. Washington, DC: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, 1970.

119. "At the Beginning," Sh'ma 1/1 (November 9, 1970): 5-7.

120. "Jewish Theology Faces the 1970's," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 387 (January 1970): 22-9.

Also published in condensed form as "The 614th Commandment," Jewish Digest 16 (January 1971): 23-31. Published in Hebrew as "Machshevet ha-emunah ha-yehudit b'Amerikah b'sof esor v'al saf esor." In Hagut ivrit b'Amerikah, edited by Menahem Zohori, Arieh Tartakower, and Chaim Ormian. Tel Aviv: Brit Ivrit Olamit/Yavneh, 1973.

121. "Marriage, Broadway Style," Sh'ma, Trial Issue 2 (June 9, 1970), n.p..

122. "On Refusing to Be Radicalized," Sh'ma, Trial Issue 2 (June 9, 1970), n.p..

123. "The Postsecular Situation of Jewish Theology," Theological Studies 31, no. 3 (September 1970): 460-475.

124. "The Problem of the Form of a Jewish Theology," Hebrew Union College Annual 40-41 (1969-70): 391-408

125. "Restructuring the Rabbinate; An Open Letter to Dr. Theodore I. Lenn," CCAR Journal 17, no. 3 (June 1970): 59-64.

126. Review of Judaism and Christianity, edited by W. O. E. Osterley, H.M. Loewe, and E. H. Rosenthal. Religious Education 65, no. 3 (May 1970): 299-300.

127. "The Year in Judaism," New York Times, 15 March 1970, sec. 7, p. 8+.

1971

128. "Another Man's Calm" [reply to letter from Roland B. Gittelsohn], Sh'ma 1/13 (April 30, 1971): 101-2.

129. "The Dialectic of Jewish Particularity," Journal of Ecumenical Studies 8, no. 3 (Summer 1971): 560-574.

130. "Education is Not I-Thou," Religious Education 66, no. 5 (September-October 1971): 326-31.

131. "Friendship," "Love, Post-Biblical; Love of God, Man's; Love of Neighbor," and "Theocracy." In Encyclopedia Judaica. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House Ltd., 1971.

132. "Have You Read Commentary Lately?," Sh'ma 1/11 (April 2, 1971): 81-3.

133. "The Living God and the Dying Religious Style." In When Yesterday Becomes Tomorrow. New York: Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York, 1971.

134. "Modern Faith Versus Jewish Style," Judaism 20, no. 3 (Summer 1971): 313-19.

135. "Power and Reality in Conservative Judaism," Sh'ma 1/20 (November 19, 1971): 155-9.

136. "Reform Judaism's Coming Power Struggle," Sh'ma 1/10 (March 19, 1971): 75-9.

137. Review of The Star of Redemption, by Franz Rosenzweig, trans. William Hallo. New York Times, 3 October 1971, sec. 7, p. 33.

138. "A Spate of Recent Books on Modern Jewish Thought," JWB Circle 26:5 (October 1971), sec. 2, p. 1+.

139. "Technology and its Problems" in "The Object of Human Invention Is to Make Us Humane," Think 37:1 (January 1971): 26.

1972

140. "New Jewish Cultural Horizons," JWB Circle 27, no. 3 (April-May 1972): 9+.

141. "Nixon vs. McGovern: What Is Your View?" and "The Electoral Priorities for a Jew," Sh'ma (September 1, 1972): 121, 122-3.

142. "Politics - the Art of the Impossible," Worldview 15, no. 10 (October 1972): 4.

1973

143. The Mask Jews Wear. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.

144. "Abraham Joshua Heschel, Model," Sh'ma 3/46 (January 19, 1973): 41-2.

145. "Covenant Theology - Another Look," Worldview 16, no. 3 (March 1973): 21-27.

146. "Emil Fackenheim - Beyond Existentialism?," Judaica Book News 3, no. 2 (Spring 1973): 30-31.

147. "Nixon's Budget and the New Jewish Ethics," Sh'ma 3/48 (February 16, 1973): 58-9.

148. "On Being a Reform Jew Today," CCAR Journal 20, no. 3 (Summer 1973): 55-61.

149. "Our New (Old?) Agenda," Sh'ma 4/61 (November 16, 1973): 8.

150. "A Silence which Gives No Consent," Sh'ma 3/56 (September 7, 1973): 121-2.

1974

151. "Abraham Joshua Heschel: An Extremist but not a Fanatic," JWB Circle 29, no. 3 (April-May 1974): 5+.

152. "The Career of Jewish Existentialism," Jewish Book Annual 32 (5735/ 1974-75): 44-49.

153. "Comments [on lecture, "Baeck's and Buber's Social and Political Thought"]." In Leo Baeck Memorial Conference on Jewish Social Thought. New York: American Federation of Jews from Central Europe, 1974.

154. "God and Man in Judaism Today: A Reform Perspective," Judaism 23, no. 3 (Summer 1974): 298-308.

155. "The Israelis and Us, the New Distance," Sh'ma 5/82 (November 29, 1974): 172-5.

Published in Hebrew as "Ha-Yisraelim v'anachnu -- ha-marchek he-chadash," T'futzot Yisrael 13, no. 3 (July-September 1975): 37-44.

156. "The New Year and Our Bad Mood," Sh'ma 4/77 (September 20, 1974): 129-30.

157. "Religion and America's Moral Crisis," Worldview 17, no. 11 (November 1974): 52-6.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

158. Review of A Passion for Truth by Abraham Joshua Heschel.New York Times, 13 January 1974, sec. 7, p. 22.

159. "Rise of the Modern Marrano" [excerpt from The Mask Jews Wear], Jewish Digest 19 (January 1974): 14-24.

160. "Tzimtzum -- A Mystic Model for Contemporary Leadership," Religious Education 69, no. 6 (November-December 1974): 687-700.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics. Reprinted in What We Know About Jewish Education, edited by Stuart L. Kelman. Los Angeles: Torah Aura, 1992.

1975

161. "After One Hundred Issues," Sh'ma 5/100 (October 31, 1975): 319-20.

162. "Arik Brauer's Visions of the Jewish Past," National Jewish Monthly 89 (March 1975): 2-7.

163. "The Chosen People Concept as it Affects Life in the Diaspora," Journal of Ecumenical Studies l2, no. 4 (Fall 1975): 553-568.

164. "What Knowledge Does Judaism Think it Possesses?" In Biblical Studies in Contemporary Thought, edited by Miriam Ward. Burlington, VT: Trinity College Bible Institute, 1975.

165. "The Will to Fight -- The Will to Live," Sh'ma 5/92 (April 18, 1975): 250.

1976

166a. "For Dissent on Israeli Policy - Part 1," Sh'ma 6/116 (September 3, 1976): 123-7.

166b. "For Dissent on Israeli Policy - Part 2," Sh'ma 6/117 (September 17, 1976): 129-33.

These two articles were simultaneously published as "Are American Jews Allowed to Dissent on the Policies of Israeli Governments?," Israel Horizons 24, no. 8 (October 1976): 14-19.

167. "Jews as Closet Agnostics," Moment 1, no. 3 (March 1976): 69-70.

Also published in condensed form in Jewish Digest 22 (October 1976): 14-16.

168. "The Old Woman as Meta-Question: A Religionist's Reflections on Nozick's View of the State," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 44, no. 3 (September 1976): 503-515.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "Individualistic Ethics: A Dispute with Robert Nozick."

169. "The Prospects for Jewish Denominationalism," Conservative Judaism 30, no. 4 (Summer 1976): 64-74.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

1977

170. "Anti-Semitism and the Christologies of Barth, Berkouwer and Pannenberg," dialog, a journal of theology, l6 (Winter 1977): 38-41 [see also: "Retraction about Pannenberg," dialog, a journal of theology, l6 (Spring 1977): 81.].

Reprinted in Christianity and Judaism, edited by Richard W. Rousseau. Scranton, PA: Ridge Row Press, 1983.

171. "A Call for Poor to Act on Conscience," Sh'ma 8/143 (December 9, 1977): 200-202.

172. "Facing the Future of Jewish Education," Jewish Education 45, no. 2 (Spring 1977): 33-40.

173. "An Introduction to Our Commentary" and "Preface," CCAR Journal 24, no. 2 (Spring 1977): 3-5, 13-17.

174. Letter to the Editor, Lilith 1, no. 4 (Fall/Winter 1977-78): 3-4.

175. "Liberal Jewish Theology in a Time of Uncertainty," CCAR Yearbook 87 (1977): 124-170.

176. "Philip Roth: Coming Home to Moralism," JWB Circle (December 1977), sec. 2, p. 1-2.

176a. “Reform Judaism, a centenary perspective” Yearbook of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, (1977).

1978

177. Reform Judaism Today. New York: Behrman House, 1977-8.

178. "Buber and His Jewish Critics," Sh'ma 8/152 (April 14, 1978), n.p.

179. "Feeding Our Minds, Not Our Bodies?," Sh'ma 8/150 (March 17, 1978): 81-2. [Purim issue]

180. "Humanism and Religious Belief in Martin Buber," Thought 53, no. 210 (September 1978): 320-328.

181. "Judaism in America Today," The Christian Century 95, no. 36 (November 8, 1978): 1066-70.

Reprinted as "Judaism Today: Survival and Authenticity." In Where the Spirit Leads, edited by Martin Marty. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1980.

181a. Liberal Jewish theology in a time of uncertainty: a holistic approach. Yearbook of   the Central Conference of American Rabbis, 87 (1978) 124-170.  (Listed in “A Life in Covenant” as published in 1977.)

182. "The Lure and Limits of Universalizing our Faith." In Christian Faith in a Religiously Plural World, edited by Donald G. Dawe and John B. Carman. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1978.

183. Editor, A Second Look : an anthology of articles by Sh'ma editors which appeared in other journals and which they would like to share with Sh'ma's readers. Port Washington, NY: Sh'ma [Inc.], 1978?

1979

184. Understanding Judaism. [textbook] New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1979. (Portugese translation, Compreendendo O Judaismo, 1986.)

185. "The Changing Forms of Jewish Spirituality," America 140, no. 16 (April 28, 1979): 346-351.

186. "The Liberal Jews in Search of an 'Absolute!'," Cross Currents 29, no. 1 (Spring 1979): 9-14.

187. "A New Building, A New Task," Founders Day Addresses. Cincinnati: HUC-JIR, 1979.

188. "Quest for Spirituality" [contributor to symposium], Reform Judaism 8:3 (December 1979): 6-7.

189. "Theology in Grade Nine" [discussion with students], Keeping Posted 25, no. 3: 5-6.

190. (In collaboration with Edya Arzt). What Judaism Offers: A Teaching Guide on Jewish Spirituality. "Published by the Baltimore Board of Jewish Education in cooperation with the American Association for Jewish Education. Winter 1979".

191. "What We Learned from the 1970s, II" [symposium], Sh'ma 10/185 (January 11, 1979): 37-8.

1980

192. Contemporary Christologies: a Jewish Response. New York/Ramsey, NJ: Paulist Press, 1980.

193. "Affirming Transcendence: Beyond the Old Liberalism and the New Orthodoxies," The Reconstructionist 46, no. 6 (October 1980): 7-17.

194. "After Ten Years," Sh'ma 10/200 (October 31, 1980): 158-160.

195. "Beyond Immanence: How Shall Liberal Jews Educate for Spirituality?,"

us Education 75, no. 4 (July-August 1980): 387-408.

196. Discussant of paper, "A Strategy for Judging the Adequacy of Business Ethics." In Ethics and Corporate Responsibility, New York: HUC-JIR, 1980.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "The Role of Shame in Business Ethics."

197. "How Are You Thinking About Voting?" Sh'ma 10/200 (October 31, 1980): 154-5.

198. "Liberal Judaism's Effort to Invalidate Relativism Without Mandating Orthodoxy." In Go and Study, Essays and Studies in Honor of Alfred Jospe, edited by Samuel Z. Fishman and Raphael Jospe. Washington, DC: B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation, 1980.

199. Response in the symposium on "Liberalism and the Jews," Commentary 69 (January 1980): 23-4.

200. "Rethinking the Reform Jewish Theory of Social Action," Journal of Reform Judaism 27, no. 4 (Fall 1980): 1-19.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

201. "A Super-Commentary," Sh'ma 10/188 (February 22, 1980): 60-61. [Purim issue]

1981

202. "Reassessing Our Stance After the AWACS," Sh'ma 12/224 (December 25, 1981): 29-30.

203. Response in the symposium on "What is Shaping My Theology?," Commonweal 108, no. 2 (January 30, 1981): 50, 52.

204. (In collaboration with Estelle Borowitz)."Talking with Children about Sex." In The Jewish Family Book, edited by Kathy Green and Sharon Strassfeld. New York: Bantam, 1981.

205. "We Are One -- with Japanese-Americans!" Sh'ma 12/222 (November 27, 1981): 9-10.

1982

206. "About this special issue on Lebanon" [introduction and reply], Sh'ma 12/236 (September 3, 1982): 121, 123.

207. "The Authority of the Ethical Impulse in Halakhah." In Through the Sound of Many Voices: writings contributed on the occasion of the 70th birthday of W. Gunther Plaut, edited by Jonathan Plaut. Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1982.

Reprinted in Studies in Jewish Philosophy, edited by Norbert M. Samuelson. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987. Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "On the Ethical Moment in Halakhah: A Disagreement with Aharon Lichtenstein."

208. "Harvard Divinity School Convocation Address," Harvard Theological Review 75, no. 3 (July 1982): 267-74.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "Toward a More Moral Social Order." Also published as "Lessons for Our Society from the Days of Awe," Harvard Divinity Bulletin, December 1982-January 1983, n.p.

209. Introduction to Gates of Freedom: A Passover Haggadah by Chaim Stern. Bedford, NY: New Star Press, 1982.

210. "Reading the Jewish Tradition on Marital Sexuality," Journal of Reform Judaism, 29, no. 3 (Summer 1982): 1-15.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

211. Review of Abraham and the Contemporary Mind, by Silvano Arieti. Theology Today 39 (April 1982): 96-98.

211a. A Curricular Approach for the 1980's. West Orange: Behrman House Catalog for the Jewish School 1982-3, 1982, pp. 33, 47, 65, 79.

212. "The Shame of American Jewry," Sh'ma 12/239 (October 15, 1982): 155-6.

1983

212a. “Anti-Semitism and the Christologies of Barth, Berkouwer, and Panneberg.”  In Christianity and Judaism: the Deepening Dialogue, Richard W. Rousseau, Ed.  Montrose, PA: Ridge Row Press, 1983.  139-144.

213. Choices in Modern Jewish Thought. New York: Behrman House, 1983. Second expanded edition, 1995.

214. "Emil Fackenheim as Lurianic Philosopher" [review of To Mend the World], Sh'ma 13/254 (May 13, 1983): 109-11.

214a. Recent historic events: Jewish and Christian interpretations.  Theological Studies, 44, 2 (1983) 221-240.

1984

215. Liberal Judaism. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1984.

216. "The Autonomous Jewish Self," Modern Judaism 4, no. l (February 1984): 40-56.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

217. "The Autonomous Self and the Commanding Community," Theological Studies 45, no. 1 (March 1984): 34-56.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

218. "The Covenant, a Century of Modernization," Sh'ma 14/272 (April 13, 1984): 93-4.

219. "The Inner World of a Rabbi -- My Spirituality," CCAR Yearbook 94 (1984): 46-8.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity. A slightly abridged version appeared as "My Inner World," Sh'ma 14/277 (September 21, 1984): 131-2.

219a. “Jews and Judaism in Christian education,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 21,3 (1984).

220. "On the Jewish Obsession with History." In Religious Pluralism, Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion 5, edited by Lee Rouner. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.  17-37.

A revision of this article was published as "Recent Historic Events: Jewish and Christian Interpretations," Theological Studies 44, no. 2 (June 1983): 221-40. This version was reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "Judaism and Christianity on Recent Historic Events."

221. "Religious Values in a Secular Society," Journal of Ecumenical Studies 21, no. 3 (Summer 1984): 536-547.

Revised version appeared as "Beyond the Secular City," Moment 10, no. 9 (September 1985): 17-22. This version was reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

222. "Rethinking Good and Evil" [review of Evil and the Morality of God by Harold Schulweis], Moment 9, no. 10 (October 1984): 57-9.

223. "This Land is Our Land: What it Begat," Moment 9, no. 5 (May 1984): 55-8.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

224. "What Must We Reform Jews Do?" [excerpt from Liberal Judaism], Reform Judaism 12 (Spring 1984): 10-11.

1985

225. "After Fifteen Years--My View," Sh'ma 15/300 (November 1, 1985): 156-8.

226. "Beyond Ethnos and Ethos: The Faith of American Jews." In Proceedings of the Institute for Distinguished Community Leaders. [Waltham, MA:] Brandeis University, July 21-23, 1985.

227. "Borowitz on Rackman on Feminism," Sh'ma 15/298 (October 4, 1985): 139-40.

228. "The Dilemma of Contemporary Jewish Ethics, a Lecture by Eugene B. Borowitz" [transcribed and edited by Rosie Hurwitz], Religion (Lawrence, Kansas) 22, no. 3 (July 1985):1-4.

229. (In collaboration with Naomi Patz). Explaining Reform Judaism. [textbook] New York: Behrman House, 1985.

229a.  “My Inner Life,” contribution to the symposium “The Inner World of the Rabbi—My Spirituality,” Central Conference of American Rabbis Yearbook, Vol. 94 (New York: CCAR Press, 1985).

1986

230. "The Critical Issue in the Quest for Social Justice: a Jewish View." In Contemporary Ethical Issues in the Jewish and Christian Traditions, edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn. New York: Ktav, 1986.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "Social Justice, the Liberal Jewish Case."

231. "Freedom." and "Reason." In Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought, edited by Arthur A. Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr. New York: Scribners, 1986.

The essay "Freedom" was reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "Freedom: The Metamorphoses of a Jewish Value."

232. "Harav Moshe Feinstein, z"l," Sh'ma 16/312 (April 18, 1986): 93.

233. "Hillul Hashem: a Universalistic Rubric in Halakhic Ethics." In The Life of Covenant, edited by Joseph A. Edelheit. Chicago: Spertus College of Judaica Press, 1986.

Reprinted in Studies in Jewish Philosophy, edited by Norbert M. Samuelson. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987. Also reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "Hillul Hashem: A Universal Rubric in the Halakhah."

234. The Ideal Jew. The B. G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies. Syracuse: Syracuse University, 1986.

Reprinted in Judaism in the Modern World, edited by Alan L. Berger. New York: New York University Press, 1994. An abridged version appeared in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

235. "Jewish Ethics." In The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics, edited by James Childress and John Macquarrie. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

236. "Mourning the Death of the Shuttle Crew," Sh'ma 16/308 (February 21, 1986): 62-3.

237. "Religion Book Week: Critic's Choices - Eugene Borowitz,"

l 113, no. 4 (February 28, 1986): 121-2.

238. "Tzedakah, a Jewish 'rumor of angels'," Sh'ma 16/317 (September 19, 1986): 130-5.

1987

239. "Between Anarchy and Fanaticism: Religious Freedom's Challenge," The Christian Century 104, no. 21 ( July 15-22, 1987): 619-22.

A fuller version of this paper was published in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

240. The Blessing Over a Change of Wine, a study in the development of a Jewish law. Port Washington: Sh'ma, Inc., 1987.

241. "Co-existing with Orthodox Jews," Journal of Reform Judaism 34, no. 3 (Summer 1987): 53-62.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics. A fuller version of this paper was published as "At the Intersection of Theology and Politics," European Judaism 24, no. 2 (Autumn 1991): 31-37.

242. "Encounter and Dialogue among the World's Religions [Judaism]," Bulletin - Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University 13, no. 1 (Winter 1987): 3-6.

242a. “The Ideal Jew.” Shofar, 5,4 (1987) 1-15.

243. "Judaism." In The Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Reprinted in Judaism A People and its History, edited by Robert M. Seltzer, New York: Macmillan, 1989. Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity as "Continuity and Creativity in the History of the Jewish Religion," University Press of America, 1999. 

244. "His M.A.J.E.sty's Opposition, As It Were." In The Seminary at 100, edited by Nina Beth Cardin and David Silverman. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1987.

245. "Jesus the Jew in the Light of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue," and "The Challenge of Jesus the Jew for the Church," Proceedings of the Center for Jewish-Christian Learning 2 (Spring 1987): 16-18 and 24-26.

A revised version of "The Challenge of Jesus the Jew for the Church" appeared as "How Is the Church to Confront Jesus' Jewishness?," Moment 14, no. 3 (April 1989): 40-47+. Both papers were reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

246. "Separate Jews and Their Universal God," Manna, 17 (Autumn 1987): 16.

247. "Struggling for the Soul of Reform Judaism." Introduction to Yamim Nora'im: Sinai Sermons by Eugene J. Lipman. Washington, DC: Temple Sinai, 1987.

247a. Editor (in collaboration with Sharon Sobel and Beth Klafter), A Bibliography of Contemporary Jewish Thought, New York: HUC-JIR, 1987.

1988

248. "How Special, This People We Love," and "What Might We Mean by 'And Who Is Like Your People Israel, a Unique Nation of the World'?" In Proceedings of the Institute for Distinguished Community Leaders. [Waltham, MA:] Brandeis University, July 25-27, 1988.

249. "Jewish Meta-ethics and Business Ethics," Sh'ma 18/350 (March 18, 1988): 75-9.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

250. "Mentshhood," Present Tense 15, no. 6 (September-October 1988): 46-9.

An abridged version of this paper appeared in Exploring Jewish Ethics under the title, "Being a Mentsh, the Psychological Aspect."

251. "Paul Cowan, zecher tzadik livracha," Sh'ma 18/359 (October 14, 1988): 145.

252. "The Proper Aims of Theological Exchange [letter]," Sh'ma 18/348 (February 19, 1988): 64.

253. "Psychotherapy and Religion: Appropriate Expectations," Religious Education 83, no. 4 (Fall 1988): 562-70.

254. (In collaboration with Sherry Blumberg)."Religious Pluralism: a Jewish Perspective." In Religious Pluralism and Religious Education, edited by Norma H. Thompson. Birmingham: Religious Education Press, 1988.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999).

255. "Seymour Siegel, zecher tzadik livracha," Sh'ma 18/350 (March 18, 1988): 73.

256. "Temptation in a Capitalist Context," Sh'ma 18/358 (September 30, 1988): 139-42.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

257. Editor, Ehad: The Many Meanings of God Is One. Port Washington, NY: Sh'ma, 1988.

257a Editor, Reform Jewish Ethics and the Halakhah, No. 1, New York: HUC-JIR, 1988.

1989

258. "Even More Than God?" Foreword to Loving the Torah More than God? by Frans Jozef van Beeck, S. J. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1989.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999). 

259. "Liberalism vs. Orthodoxies on Pluralism," Sh'ma 19/365 (January 6, 1989): 28-30.

260. "Nora Levin, zecher tzadeket livracha," Sh'ma 20/382 (November 24, 1989): 9.

261. "On Homosexuality and the Rabbinate, a Covenantal Response." In Homosexuality, The Rabbinate, and Liberal Judaism: papers prepared for the Ad-Hoc Committee on Homosexuality and the Rabbinate. New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, June, 1989.

Reprinted with an added statement in Exploring Jewish Ethics.

262. "Heeding Ecclesiastes at Long Last," in "Woody Allen Counts the Wages of Sin" [essays about film, Crimes and Misdemeanors], New York Times, 15 October 1989, sec. 2, p. 15-16.

263. "Steven S. Schwarzschild, z"l," Sh'ma 20/384 (December 22, 1989): 25.

263a. Editor, Reform Jewish Ethics and the Halakhah, No. 2, New York: HUC-JIR, 1989.

1990

264. Exploring Jewish Ethics. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990.

265. "The Concept of Covenant in Reform Judaism." In Berit Mila in the Reform Context, edited by Lewis M. Barth. No city: Berit Mila Board of Reform Judaism, 1990.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) as "Covenant."

266. "Covenant Theology." In What Happens After I Die? by Rifat Sonsino and Daniel B. Syme. New York: UAHC Press, 1990.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) as "Life After Death."

267. "Dynamic Sunyata and the God Whose Glory Fills the Universe." In The Emptying God, edited by John B. Cobb, Jr. and Christopher Ives, Maryknoll: Orbis, 1990.

Reprinted in Exploring Jewish Ethics as "Buddhist and Jewish Ethics, a Response to Masao Abe."

267a. “The Enduring Truth of Religious Liberalism.” in The Fundamentalist Phenomenon: a View from Within, a Response from Without.  Norman J. Cohen, Ed.  W.B. Eermands Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI., 1990.  230-247.

268. "Maturity," Manna, no. 29 (Autumn 1990): n.p. [on first page of insert, "Manna Theology Supplement"].

269. "NFTY After Fifty Years" [letter]. Journal of Reform Judaism, 37, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 71-73.

270. "On the Passing of the Ethnic Era," Sh'ma 20/397 (September 21, 1990):122-4.

271. Participant in symposium, "Fundamentalism: Current Issues in the Jewish-Christian Dialogue," Proceedings of the Center for Jewish-Christian Learning 5 (Spring 1990): 7-21.

272. "The Torah, Written and Oral, and Human Rights: Foundations and Deficiencies." In The Ethics of World Religions and Human Rights edited by Hans Küng and Jürgen Moltmann. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990. [Series: Concilium (1990), 2]

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) as "Human Rights."

272a. Editor, Reform Jewish Ethics and the Halakhah, No. 3, New York: HUC-JIR, 1990.

1991

273. Renewing the Covenant. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1991.

Another version of chapter 17 of Renewing the Covenant, which also appeared as "The Enduring Truth of Religious Liberalism." In The Fundamentalist Phenomenon, edited by Norman J. Cohen. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.

274. "Belief and Morality," Reform Judaism 20, no. 1 (Fall 1991): 28-9.

274a. “Progressive Judaism and Established Orthodoxy : the realities and challenges of co-existence.” European Judaism, 24,2 (1991) 19-37.

275. "Rethinking our Holocaust Consciousness," Judaism 40, no. 4 (Fall 1991): 389-406.

Version of chapter 3 of Renewing the Covenant.

276. "A Theological Response to Orthodoxies." In A Traditional Quest, edited by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1991.

277. "The War in Iraq; a Note from the Editor," Sh'ma 21/407 (February 8, 1991): 49.

1992

278. "Autonomy and Community." In Autonomy and Judaism, edited by Daniel H. Frank. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Revised version of paper originally given at the tenth annual conference of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy, held June 4-5, 1989 at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Later revised to be chapter 18 of Renewing the Covenant.

279. A Buddhist-Jewish Dialogue between Profs. Masao Abe and Eugene B. Borowitz. Port Washington: Sh'ma, 1992. [Includes materials by both authors from The Emptying God (267), plus rejoinders by both men.]  Dr. Borowitz’s response reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) as “Buddhism and Judaism, Some Further Considerations.”

280. "Fully Human, Fully Jewish." In Aus Zweier Zeugen Mund: Festschrift für Pnina Navè Levinson und Nathan Peter Levinson, edited by Julius H. Schoeps. Gerlingen, Germany: Bleicher, 1992. Adapted version of chapter 13, Renewing the Covenant.

281. "The Holocaust and Meaning: An Exchange" [correspondence with Frans Jozef van Beeck, S. J.], Cross Currents 42, no. 3 (Fall 1992): 417-424. Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999).

282. How I Read Myself - and My Critics," Sh'ma 22/426 (January 24, 1992): 47-8.

283. "Jewish Thought -- on the Emergence of a Genre," Jewish Book Annual 50 (1992-3, 5753): 62-70.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) under the title, "American Jewish Modernity Comes to Self-consciousness."

284. "On Viewing the Chagall Murals: Two Notes," Sh'ma 23/444 (December 25, 1992): 31.

285. "Our Jewishness Under Threat," Manna, no. 36 (Summer 1992): 8-9.

286. Our Way to a Postmodern Judaism: Three Lectures. San Francisco: University of San Francisco, 1992. A revised version of these lectures appears in Judaism After Modernity (1999) as "The Way to a Postmodern Jewish Theology."

287. "Reform Perspectives on God" [letter], Reform Judaism 20, no. 3 (Spring 1992): 65.

287a. Editor (in collaboration with Andrea L. Weiss), A Bibliography of Contemporary Jewish Thought, 1992 edition, New York: HUC-JIR, 1992.

1993

288. "Alicia Seeger, in Tribute," Sh'ma 23/452 (April 16, 1993): 96.

289. "Buddhism and Judaism: Some Further Considerations" [with reply from Masao Abe], Buddhist-Christian Studies 13 (1993): 223-231. Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity.

290. "A Hearty Welcome to Our New Editors," Sh'ma 23/447 (February 5, 1993): 49.

291. "Jottings from an Editor's Desk," Sh'ma 23/449 (March 5, 1993): 65. [Purim issue]

292. "Justice Ginsburg, Another 'Terminal Jew'?," Sh'ma 24/457 (September 17, 1993): 7-8.

293. "Looking Backward, Looking Forward," Sh'ma 23/455 (May 28, 1993): 113-15.

294. "Zur Problematik des interreligiösen Dialogs aus der Sicht des Judentums." In Weltfrieden durch Religionsfrieden: Antworten aus den Weltreligionen, edited by Hans Küng and Karl-Josef Kuschel. Munich: Piper, 1993.

Paper for the UNESCO colloquium on "World Religions, Human Rights, and World Peace." (Previously published in English as "Finding a Way to Peace Among Religions, a Response to Hans Küng" in Exploring Jewish Ethics.)

1994

295. "Crisis and Confidence: Psalm 90." In Healing of Soul, Healing of Body, edited by Simkha Y. Weintraub. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1994. Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999).

296. "Human Aspiration, the Lessons of the Century," European Judaism 27, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 52-62.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) under the title, "Money."

297. "Virtual Judaism on CD-ROM Now Available," Open Lion 2, no. 1 (Winter 1994): n.p. [Behrman House newsletter, Purim issue.]

298. Editor, Reform Jewish Ethics and the Halakhah. West Orange, NJ: Behrman House, 1994.

Borowitz's introduction ("From Cognitive Dissonance to Creative Groping") and "concluding reflection" ("Toward a Postmodern Jewish Ethics") from this volume were reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999). 

1995

299. "Abraham J. Heschel: Thinking About Our Teacher." In What Kind of God?, edited by Betty R. Rubenstein and Michael Berenbaum. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999).

300. "Apostasy From Judaism Today," Modern Theology 11, no. 2 (April 1995): 173-79.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999). 

301. "In Tribute to Jacob Neusner," Sh'ma 25/491 (March 31, 1995): 6-8.

302. (In collaboration with Kerry Olitzky)."A Jewish Perspective." In Aging, Spirituality and Religion, edited by Melvin A. Kimble, et al. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) as "Aging."

303. "Reform Judaism: Modern Movement in a Postmodern Era?" In The Jewish Condition: essays on contemporary Judaism honoring Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, edited by Aron Hirt-Manheimer. New York: UAHC Press, 1995.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) as "Postmodernity and the Quintessential Modern Jewish Religious Movement." A revised version of this essay was published as "Future of Reform -- More God, More Jewish, More Humble," Manna, no. 50 (Winter 1996): 18-22.

304. "Ta Sh'ma," Sh'ma 26/502 (November 24, 1995): 7.

305. "What is Reform Religious Zionism?," Journal of Reform Zionism 2 (March 1995/Adar II 5755): 24-30.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity as "Zionism." This paper was also reprinted in Zionism: The Sequel, edited by Carol Diament. New York: Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, 1998. An earlier version appeared in CCAR Yearbook 104 (1994): 73-78.

1996

306. "Are We Too Soft on Apostates?," Reform Judaism 24, no. 4 (Summer 1996): 54-5+. Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity.

307. "The Crux of Liberal Jewish Thought: Personal Autonomy," Journal of Psychology and Judaism 20, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 40-41.

308. Foreword to Judaism and Spiritual Ethics by Niles E. Goldstein and Steven S. Mason. New York: UAHC Press, 1996.

309. "My Father's Spirituality and Mine." In Entrances to Holiness. Sudbury, MA: Congregation Beth El, 1996.

Also appears in Paths of Faithfulness, edited by Carol Ochs, Kerry Olitzky, and Joshua Saltzman. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1997. Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999).

310. "A Vital Zionism: Rubrics for Discussion," Elu v'Elu, no. 1 (September 1996): 4-5.

311. "What Does the Halakhah Say about...? Joseph Karo's Preface to the Beit Yosef," CCAR Journal 43, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 1996): 51-8.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999).

1997

312. "How a Discipline Became Established," CCAR Journal 44, no. 2 (Spring 1997): 65-70.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) under the title, "My Way Beyond Modernity."

313. Please, God, Heal Her, Please. Healing and Judaism Monograph Series, eds. Kerry M. Olitzky and Nancy Weiner, no. 1. [New York:] National Center for Jewish Healing, 1997. Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999)

314. "The Reform Judaism of Renewing the Covenant," Conservative Judaism 50, no. 1 (Fall 1997): 61-65.

315. "Response to the Gift of 'Not a Festschrift'," and "My Pursuit of Prayerfulness." In Jewish Spiritual Journeys, edited by Lawrence A. Hoffman and Arnold J. Wolf. West Orange, NJ: Behrman House, 1997.

Both essays were reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999).

315a. Editor (in collaboration with Daniel A. Lehrman), A Bibliography of Contemporary Jewish Thought, 1997 edition, New York: HUC-JIR, 1997.

1998

316. "Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophet of Social Activism." In No Religion is an Island: the Nostra Aetate Dialogues, edited by Edward Bristow. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998.

317. "Contemporary Reform Judaism Speaks: Finding a Jewish View of the 'Just Society'." In Signposts on the Way of Torah, edited by Jacob Neusner. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999) as "Finding a Jewish View of a Just Economy."

318. Foreword to Unfinished Rabbi, Selected Writings of Arnold Jacob Wolf, by Arnold Jacob Wolf. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999), as “The First Commandment, A Postmodern Reading.”

319. "Masao Abe's Challenge to Modern Jewish Theology." In Masao Abe: A Zen Life of Dialogue, edited by Donald W. Mitchell. New York: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1998.

Reprinted in Judaism After Modernity (1999).  Published in German as "Ein Loblied auf die intellektuelle Freundschaft." In Das Leben leise wieder lernen: jüdisches und christliches Selbstverständnis nach der Schoah, edited by Ekkehard W. Stegemann. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1997.

320. Personal Statement and Biography for CCAR Honorary Membership.

321. Editor, Theological Terms in the Talmud: a first book. [New York:] The Ilona Samek Institute at HUC-JIR, 1998.

1999

322. (In collaboration with Frances Schwartz). The Jewish Moral Virtues. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1999.

323. Judaism After Modernity: papers from a decade of fruition. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.

Newly published articles in this volume include “A Reflection on My Sense of Certainty,” “Five Letters to Readers of Renewing the Covenant” (with the exception of “An Open Letter to Elliott Dorff”), “Textual Reasoning and Jewish Philosophy, the Next Phase of Jewish Postmodernity?,” “The Heschel our Community Venerates,” and “John Hick: Advocate of Adjective-less Religion.”

324. “Foreword,” Teaching Jewish Virtues, Susan Freeman, Denver: A. R. E. Publishing, 1999.

325. “The Rabbi and Personal Jewish Virtues,” (with Frances W. Schwartz), CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly, Winter 1999

326. “Respecting Limits in Pluralism,” Sh’ma, Vol. 29, Number 561, April 1999.

327. Reprint of excerpts from the chapter “What Do We Expect in the Messianic Age?”, Liberal Judaism, New York: UAHC, 1984, in Reform Judaism, Spring, 1999.

2000

328. The Anne Bass Schneider Lecture in Jewish Studies. New York: Hunter College of the City of New York, 2000.

329. “Eugene Borowitz Reflects on Jacob Behrman, Writing, and Editing,” Open Lion, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Fall 2000.

330. “A Life of Jewish Learning: In Search of a Theology of Judaism.” The Hunter College Jewish Social Studies Program. Occasional Papers in Jewish History and Thought, No. 12.

2002

331. “‘Halakhah’ in Reform Jewish usage: historic background and current discourse.”  CCAR Journal, 49, 4 (2002) 5-26.

332. “The Postmodern Mood in the Synagogue, a Symposium,” (with Jacqueline Mates-Muchin), CCAR Journal, Winter, 2002.

333. “Textual Reasoning and Jewish Philosophy,” in Textual Reasonings, Peter Ochs and Nancy Levene, eds. London: SCM Press, 2002.

334. “Walter Wurzberger 1920-2002, A Sh’ma Contributing Editor,” Sh’ma, 32/591, May 2002, Iyar 5762.

2004

335. “I Believe,” URJ, Department of Lifelong Learning, Torah at the Center, Vol. 7, no. 3, spring 2004, Aviv 5764.6-7.

336. “Our Shifting/Stable Task: From ‘Choosing a Sex Ethic’ to Today,” Judaism, Issue No. 205/6, Vol. 52, Nos. 1-2, Winter-Spring 2003 (appeared in 2004).

337. “The Pivotal Issue in a Century’s Jewish Thought,” Conservative Judaism, Vol. 55, No. 4, Summer 2003 (appeared in 2004).

2005

338. Foreword, “The Lived Sense of the Historical Record,” The Vision and the Will, a History of the National Association of Temple Educators, Alan Bennett, URJ Press, 2005, ix-x.

2006

339. “Musings on Mourning.” CCAR Journal, Summer 2006; LIII (3):3-9.

340. “A Nearness of Difference: Jewish-Catholic Dialogue since Vatican II,” Commonweal, vol. CXXXIII, no. 1 (January 13, 2006). 

341. “The Second Phase of Reform Jewish Piety,” The Chronicle, HUC-JIR, Issue 67, 2006, 7-9.

2007

342. (In collaboration with Frances Schwartz) A Touch of the Sacred, a Theologian's Informal Guide to Jewish Belief, Jewish Lights, 2007.

2008

343. "Understanding the Rav's 'Philosophy," in Mentor of Generations, Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Zev Eleff, ed. Ktav, 2008. (An earlier version of entry 50 in A Touch of the Sacred, "The Greatest Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Philosopher.")

Forthcoming

344. “A Jewish Theology of Social Action,” CCAR Journal.

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