Passionate Centrism; Contents; PREFACE; Chapter One PRINCIPLES OF POSITIVE HISTORICAL JUDAISM; Chapter Two LITURGY: ADDRESSING THE SACRED; Chapter Three HALAKHAH: LIVING THE SACRED; Chapter Four SACRED TEXT; Chapter Five SACRED HISTORY; Chapter Six FINDING GOD IN HISTORY; APPENDIX 1: Women and the Minyan (2002); APPENDIX 2: The Halakhah of Same-Sex Relations in a New Context; APPENDIX 3: Solomon Schechter and the Ambivalence of Jewish Wissenschaft (1997); APPENDIX 4: The Meaning of Catholic Israel (1998)
Summary
Passionate Centrism is an important discussion of Positive Historical Judaism and the benefit of holding the center of Judaism-that is, the Conservative Movement. This book is an important resource for clergy and other congregational leaders and is an excellent product for lecture series
