Righteous Indignation
Description
Product Details
| Publisher | Jewish Lights Publishing |
| Publish Date | November 01, 2007 |
| Pages | 386 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781580233361 |
| Dimensions | 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches | 1.4 pounds |
About the Author
Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, PhD, has fostered Jewish thinking about social justice for over a decade as an editor at Tikkun and at Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture.
Margie Klein is a passionate activist and budding religious leader. Founder and director of Moishe House Boston: Kavod Jewish Social Justice House, she is a student at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College. She is the founder of Project Democracy, a program that mobilized 97,000 students to vote in the 2004 election.
Dr. David Ellenson is president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Dr. Ellenson was ordained as a rabbi at HUC JIR and received his PhD from Columbia University. His book After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity won the National Jewish Book Award. His most recent book, Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa, was coauthored with Daniel Gordis.
Reviews
"A must-have book.... This anthology will probably play an important role in advancing the progressive agenda in ... American elections."
-Association of Jewish Libraries
"An essential and engaging source to read, study, refer to and strengthen our resolve. Let all who care about justice or Judaism enter here."
-Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, PhD, author, The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism
"Unites the memory of yesterday with the promise of tomorrow. Addresses all of us, here and now."
-Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, Valley Beth Shalom
"Rich and passionate, these expressions will inspire you to consider your obligations as a Jew, as an American and as a global citizen, while challenging you to take thoughtful and effective action in the world."
-Jewish Media Review
"A passion for justice infuses the articles, and the inspiration of Abraham Joshua Heschel shines through clearly.... Gives us hope for a reinvigorated Judaism in the twenty-first century, and a world that will come closer to redemption."
-Professor Susannah Heschel, author, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus
"Marvelous ... inspires us to do more to bring about the changes that our world so desperately needs."
-Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon, Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, New York City
"Particularly noteworthy in exploring the role of social action and community organizing as a means of expressing one's Jewishness and Judaism."
-Jewish Book World
"Varied and interesting ... represents the cutting edge of the Jewish prophetic tradition in our contemporary world. Read it and be inspired!"
-Rabbi Arthur Green
"More than meets its mark.... [A] wonderful buffet of ideas, replete not just with tradition, but with innovative interpretations suited to a twenty-first century approach toward social action and reform. A must-have."
-Publishers Weekly
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