For such a time as this : on being Jewish today /
"For Jews today, the attack on Israel on October 7th has drawn a clear and irreversible demarcation in time. On that day, the Jewish community woke up to an unrecognizable new reality, witnessing the stark rise in antisemitism, the world's oldest hatred, in its wake. But even in this dark...
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New York :
Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The wake-up call
- Part one: What was. Living the Hyphen: The heart of the Jewish identity
- The invisible thread: Jewish faith and our ancestral homeland
- The two worlds of Judaism: Israel, the diaspora, and the divisions within
- Empathy and vigilance: The two responses to Jewish trauma
- Antisemitism: A modern look at the world's oldest hate
- Part two: What is. Grief, clarity, solidarity: Anchors for this moment in time
- The tribal moment: What it means to be Jewish today
- For such a time as this: Esther, a hero for our moment
- Kiy'mu v'kiblu: Affirming and accepting our Jewish identity
- Empathy or revenge: Choosing a path of peace
- Sinat hinam: Why our greatest risk is the enemy within
- Part three: What might be. The day after: Toward a dialogue of peace
- The generational divide: On bridging the politics of Zionism
- The broken and the whole: A new vision of Zionism and American Judaism
- To begin again: Stepping toward the promised land.