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THE PATH FORWARD
Rabbi Andrue J. (Andy) Kahn, Issues
Fall 2024
COUNCIL UPDATE
Stephen L. Naman, Issues
Fall 2024
CONFRONTING THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN ZIONISM AND JEWISH MORAL AND ETHICAL VALUES
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Fall 2024
AN EXPLORATION OF THE LONG HISTORY OF AMERICAN JEWISH OPPOSITION TO ZIONISM
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Fall 2024
FOR MORE AND MORE JEWISH AMERICANS, ZIONISM LOOKS LIKE A DANGEROUS WRONG TURN
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2024
AN IMPORTANT HISTORY OF JEWISH DISSENT OVER ISRAEL’S TREATMENT OF PALESTINIANS
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Spring - Summer 2024
After Gaza, American Jews Are Increasingly Divided Over Zionism and Israel
ALLAN C. BROWNFELD, Issues
WINTER 2024
FROM DALLAS TO GAZA: HOW JFK’S ASSASSINATION WAS GOOD FOR ZIONIST ISRAEL
Rick Sterling, Issues
WINTER 2024
Max Edward Tonkon, R.I.P. 1927 - 2023
, Issues
WINTER 2024
THE TIME HAS COME TO CONFRONT JEWISH INTOLERANCE AS WELL AS ANTISEMITISM
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
FALL 2023
American Jews and Israel: A New Reality is in the Making
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
FALL 2023
TURMOIL GROWS IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AS ZIONISM INCREASINGLY SEEMS TO BE A MISTAKEN PATH
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2023
ASSESSING THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF THE NEWLY INFLUENTIAL MEIR KAHANE
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Spring - Summer 2023
ISRAEL’S MOVEMENT AWAY FROM DEMOCRACY ACCELERATES RETREAT OF JEWISH AMERICANS FROM ZIONISM
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2023
GROWING DIVISIONS OVER ISRAEL SHARPLY DIVIDE THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Winter 2023
AIPAC’S NEW POLITICAL ROLE RAISES OLD QUESTIONS ABOUT FOREIGN AGENT REGISTRATION
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2022
UNDERSTANDING THE WEAPONIZATION OF ANTISEMITISM
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2022
THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR JUDAISM AT 80: A HISTORY OF ADVANCING PROPHETIC JUDAISM, FREE OF NATIONALISM
Allan C. Brownfeld , Issues
Spring - Summer 2022
THE STORY OF A LIFELONG SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL WHO UNDERWENT A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2022
RABBI EVERETT GENDLER, R.I.P.: AN ELOQUENT VOICE FOR JEWISH UNIVERSALISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Allan C. Brownfeld , Issues
Spring - Summer 2022
IN THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY, ZIONISM IS UNRAVELING
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2022
A THOUGHTFUL EXAMINATION OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH FUTURE
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2022
SOME THOUGHTS ON ANTI-SEMITISM
Mark W. Weber, Issues
Winter 2022
Extraordinary Story Of Cooperation To Build Schools For Black Children In The Segregated South
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2021
The Holocaust Had Many Victims–The Palestinians Among Them
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2021
Defending The Indefensible: Where Zionism Has Led The American Jewish Community
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2021
A Bold Vision For Israel/Palestine: One Democratic State For All Its Citizens
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Spring - Summer 2021
Redefining Anti-Semitism: A Growing Challenge To Freedom Of Speech
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2021
The Essential Essays Of An Early Rabbinical Critic Of Zionism
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2021
“Wrestling With Zionism” —— A Chronology Of Jewish Critics From Zionism’s Birth Until Today
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Fall 2020
AMERICAN JEWS AND THE 2020 ELECTION
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2020
Remembering A Lifetime of Advancing Prophetic Judaism - Free of Nationalism And Politicization
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
June 2020
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
June 2020
The Danger Of Redefining Judaism By Executive Decree
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2020
Assessing Zionism’s Impact On Judaism And U.S. Middle East Policy
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2020
RECLAIMING JUDAISM FROM ZIONISM
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Autumn 2019
Idolatry Increasingly Characterizes the American Jewish Community’s Embrace of Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Autumn 2019
How Judaism Redefined Itself As An American Religion
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2019
As Anti-Semitism Grows, Attributing It To Critics Of Israel Trivializes A Real Threat
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2019
Campaign to Criminalize Criticism of Israel Challenges Both Free Speech and Jewish Values
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2019
"I Was a Catholic Zionist" - An Eloquent Exploration of Judaism's Moral and Ethical Tradition and Zionism's Departure From It
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2019
Israel Is Not the “Nation-State” of American Jews
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2018
Examining the Zionist Vision and the Reality of Contemporary Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2018
Israel at 70: A Growing Dilemma for American Jews
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2018
Former Knesset Speaker Rejects Zionism and Envisions a New Paradigm for Israel and Judaism
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2018
Examining Ten Myths about Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2018
Redefining Anti-Semitism: An Effort to Silence Criticism of Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2018
Examining Zionism — From Seeking a Refuge for Jews to Controlling Millions of Palestinians
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2017
Israel’s 50-Year Occupation Is Challenging Judaism’s Moral Integrity
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2017
The Balfour Declaration at 100: Remembering Its Prophetic Jewish Critics
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2017
Realization Is Growing That American Jews and Israel No Longer Share a Moral and Ethical Worldview
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2017
Commemorating 75 Years of Advancing Prophetic Judaism, Free of Nationalism and Politicization
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2017
Is Israeli Occupation Moving Toward Apartheid?
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2017
Examining the Increasingly Troubled Relationship between American Jews and Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2016
Assessing Zionism and the State of Israel as a Dramatic Break with the Jewish Religious Tradition
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2016
Uncritical Support for Israel Threatens Both Jewish Values and Prospects for Middle East Peace
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2016
An Eloquent Voice of Jewish Universalism Shares His Views on the Moral Challenges Which Confront Us
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2016
20 Years after Rabin's Assassination, Those Who Demonized Him Are Running Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2016
What the Case of Jonathan Pollard Tells Us about Zionism's Worldview
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2016
Former Israeli Ambassador’s Assault on American Jewish Critics of Israel Is a Revealing Look at the Zionist Worldview
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2015
Over-Heated Campaign against Iran Agreement Shows How Unrepresentative Jewish Groups Are of Those in Whose Name They Speak
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2015
Zionism and Jewish Values: A Contradiction Exposed
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring-Summer 2015
Theologians Examine the Moral and Ethical Issues Raised by Zionism
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Spring-Summer 2015
LEONARD R. SUSSMAN 1920 – 2015
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring-Summer 2015
Remembering Leonard Sussman
Jack Ross, Issues
Spring-Summer 2015
Lamenting the Decline of “Liberal Zionism” Is a Futile Enterprise Because It Never Really Existed
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2015
An Eloquent Plea for Religious Freedom and Equality in Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2015
ISRAEL HAS BROKEN MY HEART: I’M A RABBI IN MOURNING FOR A JUDAISM BEING MURDERED BY ISRAEL
Rabbi Michael Lerner, Issues
Fall 2014
Judaism’s Moral Integrity Is Threatened by Blind Support for Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2014
Resistance Is Growing to Zionism’s Corruption of American Jewish Life
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2014
How the Zionist Lobby Overwhelmed Harry Truman and Led Us to the Middle East Dilemma We Face Today
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2014
Focus on Israel Is Driving Young People — and Others — Away From an Increasingly Intolerant Jewish Community
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2014
An Eye-Opening Report from an Israel Most Americans Never See
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2014
ROBERT L. STEINER 1923-2013
, Issues
Winter 2014
Exploring One Man's Journey to and from Zionism
Allan C. Brownfeld, editor, Issues
Fall 2013
In Israel, Lack of Religious Freedom and Growing Intolerance Threaten Jewish Values
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Fall 2013
David Ben-Gurion Once Agreed That American Jews Are “Americans”; Israel Is Now Abandoning That View
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2013
Hagel Nomination Focused Much Needed Attention on the Role of the Pro-Israel Lobby in Influencing Policy
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2013
Classical Reform Judaism: An Enduring Tradition
Wolfgang Hamburger, Issues
Winter 2013
The ACJ at 70: Keeping the Prophetic Universal Jewish Tradition Alive
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2013
Among American Jews, Zionism Is in Retreat As Its Irrelevance to Their Lives Becomes Clear
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2012
Entanglement of Religion and State in Israel
Frank H. Hytken, Issues
Fall 2012
Rabbi Wolfgang Hamburger 1919-2012
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Fall 2012
Has Zionism Betrayed Its Ideals — Or Was It Flawed at Its Inception?
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2012
Israel’s Democracy Is Being Challenged by Its Own Policies: A Prescription to Bring It Back from the Brink
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2012
Freedom of Speech Is Under Increasing Assault Within the Jewish Community
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2012
Uncovered Documents Tell the Story of Cooperation Between Muslims and Jews in Medieval Cairo
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2012
Elmer Berger’s Anti-Zionism: Keeping the Humane Jewish Tradition Alive
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2011
The Myth of an Israel-Centered “Jewish Vote” Is Energizing Both Parties — With Negative Consequences for Both Democracy and Middle East Peace
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2011
Commemorating Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray on the Civil War’s 150th Anniversary
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2011
Judah Magnes: Seeking to Keep Judaism’s Highest Ideals Alive in an Age of Nationalism
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2011
Israel Is Not the Homeland of American Jews
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2011
Explaining the Origins of the Balfour Declaration: The Real Beginning of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Winter 2011
Remembering the Prophetic Vision of Zionism’s Jewish Critics
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Fall 2010
A Thoughtful Look At Zionism’s Often Overlooked Dark Side
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2010
Jeannette Naman 1922-2010
, Issues
Fall 2010
Increasing Politicization Threatens Judaism’s Moral Integrity
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring - Summer 2010
In a Compelling Book, Israeli Historian Calls Jewish People an “Invention” and Disputes Zionism’s Underpinnings
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Spring - Summer 2010
Needed: An American Jewish Community Which Welcomes Free Speech and Diversity
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2010
Corruption of Jewish Values by Blind Support for Israel Was Foreseen,Even by Some Prominent Zionists
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2010
A Time to Speak Out: Jewish Voices Challenging the Jewish Establishment and Embracing Universal Principles of Justice
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer / Fall 2009
Anniversary of the Synagogue Reopening after WWII Brings Romans Together
Ida Garibaldi, Issues
Summer / Fall 2009
A Crisis in Judaism: For Many Jews Today, Israel Is Not a Normal State — It Is a Cause or Ideal, and Therein Lies the Problem
Brian Klug, Issues
Summer / Fall 2009
A Jewish American’s Evolving View of Israel
Steven R. Feldman, Issues
Spring 2009
Judaism Does Not Equal Israel: A Call for a Return to Prophetic Jewish Values
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2009
A Tale of Two Claims: Ahmadinejad and the Jews
Yakov M. Rabkin, Issues
Spring 2009
American Jews and Israel’s Law of Return
Robert D. Naman, Issues
Winter 2009
The Zionist Attack on Jewish Values
Lawrence Davidson, Issues
Winter 2009
Rising from the Ashes of the Holocaust: Jewish Society Should Define Itself by Its Positive Attributes, Not Victimhood
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2009
Remembering the Foremost Jewish Anti Zionist, Alfred M Lilienthal, 1913–2008
John F. Rothmann, Issues
Winter 2009
Confronting Idolatry: God Is Central to Judaism — Not the State of Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2008
Explaining the Long — and Largely Untold — History of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2008
A Report from AIPAC’s 2008 Policy Conference
Philip Weiss, Issues
Fall 2008
AIPAC Does Not Speak for American Jews
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2008
“Among the Righteous”:Lost Stories of Arabs Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2008
Bernard H. Baum 1926 – 2008
Allan C. Brownfeld, Editor, Issues
Summer 2008
American Jews and the 2008 Election
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2008
Jewish Life Revives in Poland as Poles Confront Their Country’s Complex History of Interaction with Judaism
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2008
Examining the Long History of Jewish Roots in the American South
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2008
Celebrating 350 Years of Jewish Life in Britain (Part II)
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2008
Message from the President of the Council
Stephen L. Naman, Issues
Winter 2008
A Positive Look at American Judaism Which Is Thriving, Despite the Repeated Declarations That It Is in Decline and Threatened with Disappearance
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2008
Marjorie Arsht 1914-2008
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2008
Chanukah and Christmas: The Deeper Connections
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Fall 2007
Jewish Life Revives in Poland as Poles Confront Their Country’s Complex History of Interaction with Judaism
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2007
Current Models of Classical Reform Practice in Congregational and Community Settings
Jay R. Brickman, Issues
Fall 2007
Jews and Muslims: A Call for Reconciliation
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Summer 2007
Kindler of Souls: The Story of Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2007
The German-Jewish Epoch of 1743-1933:Tragedy or Success Story?
Solveig Eggerz, Issues
Summer 2007
The First American Jew A Tribute to Gershom Mendes Seixas “Patriot Rabbi of the Revolution”
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Spring 2007
For “New Jews” at Home in the World, the Israel-Diaspora Dichotomy Has Come to an End
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2007
Classical Reform Judaism for the Twenty-First Century
Arnold Mark Belzer, Issues
Spring 2007
Redeeming Grammar Lessons
Nadia Siritsky, Issues
Spring 2007
Classical Reform Judaism, A Concise Profile
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Winter 2007
Reforming Reform Judaism
Jay R. Brickman, Issues
Winter 2007
Assessing the Role — and the Future — of German Jews, the Fastest Growing Population of Jews in Europe
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2007
Celebrating 350 Years of Jewish Life in Britain
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2007
September 11: A Memory and a Challenge
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Fall 2006
One Hundred Years After the Exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus: Re-Thinking Theodor Herzl’s Analysis of This Landmark Case
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2006
Liberal Judaism Is Our Future
David E. Powers, Issues
Fall 2006
Jews in the West: A Story of Adventure and Accomplishment
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2006
A Spiritual Legacy for America: The Faith of Abraham Lincoln
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Summer 2006
Who Is Right: Jewish Perspectives on Pluralism and Exclusivism
Nadia Siritsky, Issues
Summer 2006
A Look at Spain’s Golden Age Encourages Efforts Toward Future Muslim-Jewish Understanding
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2006
The Truth Will Make You Free: An Encounter with Torah and Gospel
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Spring 2006
From Private to Colonel: Jewish Service in the Revolutionary War
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2006
In a Post-Holocaust Era: Germany Welcomes Jews
Solveig Eggerz, Issues
Spring 2006
One Woman’s Unique Journey and Life of Service
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2006
Rabbi John D. Rayner 1924 – 2005
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2006
Julius Rosenwald: Advocate for Equal Opportunity
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2006
In Defense of Classical Reform Judaism
Nadia Siritsky, Issues
Winter 2006
Religious Moderation Can Defeat Religious Extremism — and the Hebrew Bible Is the Key
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2006
The Pilgrims: Our Shared Spiritual Heritage
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Winter 2006
Isaac Mayer Wise: The Father of American Reform Judaism
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2005
Diverse Jewish Voices Argue that Total Embrace of Israel Is Threatening Judaism’s Ethical and Humane Tradition
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2005
The Challenges of a Milestone
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Fall 2005
Hanging on to Hope Through Serious Illness
Hirshel Jaffe, Issues
Summer 2005
What About Now? Accepting the Challenge of Intermarriage
Jacques Cukierkorn, Issues
Summer 2005
Author Urges Israel to “Outgrow” Its Zionist Past and Look to a Secular and Democratic Future
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2005
How a Small Band of Protesters Unmasked the Nazi Regime’s Fear of Unrest
Solveig Eggerz, Issues
Summer 2005
Judah Magnes: A Disappointed American Zionist
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2005
The Eisenhower Administration and the Historic ACJ
David Eugene Blank, Issues
Spring 2005
Facing the Future: The Need to Promote Free Speech and Confront Extremism in the Jewish Community
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2005
Who and What Are the Jews?
Marjorie Arsht, Issues
Winter 2005
Some Russian Jews Rethink Emigration to Israel
Ida Garibaldi, Issues
Winter 2005
My Religion
Bernard H. Baum, Issues
Winter 2005
Continued Promotion of Aliyah Undermines the Legitimacy of American Jewish Life
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2005
Fleeing Europe, Jews Found Haven in America
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2004
Hebraism, Our Common Heritage and Hope
John D. Rayner, Issues
Fall 2004
Celebrating 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2004
Bulgarian Heroism - Individual and Collective - Trumped Official Anti-Semitism
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2004
Ethics Versus Ritual
John D. Rayner, Issues
Summer 2004
One Man’s Passion for Freedom - And Encounters with Extraordinary People
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2004
Alan V. Stone 1933 – 2004
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2004
Finding a New Jerusalem in America Part II
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2004
Harry Truman’s Diary: How Legitimate Are Charges of Anti-Semitism?
David Eugene Blank, Issues
Spring 2004
Wrestling With Zion: Re-thinking Jewish Tradition and the Ongoing Crisis in the Middle East
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2004
Finding a New Jerusalem in America
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2004
Ashamnu - We Have Sinned
John D. Rayner, Issues
Winter 2004
Coming to Grips with Reform Judaism’s Crisis of Identity
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2004
From Eternity to Eternity
Wolfgang Hamburger, Issues
Fall 2003
The Italian Holocaust: The Story of an Assimilated Jewish Community
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2003
Ancient Visions, Future Hopes: Recalling a Religious Objector to Jewish Nationalism
Everett Gendler, Issues
Fall 2003
Assessing the Failed Strategy of Making Israel a Surrogate Religion for American Jews
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2003
The Jewish Establishment’s Focus on Palestine: Did It Distract from Holocaust Rescue Efforts?
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2003
Principles of Jewish Ethics
John D. Rayner, Issues
Summer 2003
Confronting the Disaffection with Jewish Life on the Part of Those Seeking Spiritual Meaning
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2003
Three Righteous Men: Fry, Perlasca, and Sugihara
Peter Egill Brownfeld , Issues
Spring 2003
The Ethical Issues Surrounding the Middle East
John D. Rayner, Issues
Spring 2003
Examining the Reasons for Jewish Population Decline; One Key Factor Is Judaism’s Politicization
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2003
The American Civil War: Grounding Jewish Immigrants in Their New Country
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2003
Are Jewish Intolerance and Extremism the Real Threat to the Community’s Long-Run Viability
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2003
Reflections on Reform Judaism - Yesterday and Today
Irving J. Goldberg, Issues
Winter 2003
Don’t Judge Judaism by the Numbers
Douglas Rushkoff, Issues
Winter 2003
The New York Times’ Strange Attack on Classical Reform Judaism
Dr. David Eugene Blank, Issues
Fall 2002
The British Conservative Party and the Fate of the Jews
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2002
Politicization Is Eroding Judaism’s Moral and Spiritual Message
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2002
Classical Reform Judaism: A Timeless Legacy
Rabbi Michael P. Sternfield, Issues
Fall 2002
The Marriage of Commodore Uriah Levy
Rabbi Joseph S. Topek, Issues
Summer 2002
Israel: An Insoluble Problem
Lucian Heichler, Issues
Summer 2002
Beyond Retaliation
John D. Rayner, Issues
Summer 2002
It Is Time to End the Doomsday Rhetoric of a “Second Holocaust”
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2002
Religion and Nationalism: A Dangerous Mix Throughout History
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2002
Jew and Judaist, Ethnic and Religious: How They Mix in America
Rabbi Jacob Neusner, Issues
Spring 2002
How Jefferson’s Ideals Inspired the Levy Family to Preserve Monticello
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2002
A Question of Allegiance
Rabbi Howard A. Berman, Issues
Winter 2002
Religious Fundamentalism and Holy War: Judaism Is Not Immune
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2002
Classical Reform Judaism: Did It End in 1937?
Ralph Dombrower, Issues
Winter 2002
Classical Reform Judaism ― A Personal View
Rabbi Wolfgang Hamburger, Issues
Winter 2002
The League of British Jews: Challenging Nationalism in Behalf of Jewish Universalism
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2001
A Light to the Nations
John D. Rayner, Issues
Fall 2001
The Faith of Classical Reform Judaism
Howard A. Berman, Issues
Summer 2001
England's Clash of Values: Jewish Universalism Confronts Jewish Nationalism
Peter Egill Brownfeld , Issues
Summer 2001
Israel Shahak (1933-2001): A Prophetic Voice Is Stilled
Allan C. Brownfeld , Issues
Summer 2001
A "Silent Majority" of Reform Jews
Stephen L. Naman , Issues
Summer 2001
Who Speaks for American Jews?
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2001
Truth, Justice and Peace: A Jewish Approach to the Palestine Conflict
John D. Rayner, Issues
Spring 2001
An Irreconcilable Love Affair with Israel?
Leonard R. Sussman, Issues
Spring 2001
An Inquiry Into What Really Matters Most To American Jews
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2001
The “Other” Germany: German Jews and the Enlightenment
Solveig Eggerz, Issues
Winter 2001
American Jews and the Civil War: Leadership and Military Service
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2001
Jew vs. Jew: Portrait of A Sharply Divided Community
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2000
We and They
John D. Rayner, Issues
Fall 2000
The Civil War: A Crucible of Jewish Acculturation
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 2000
The Liberman Candidacy and the Continuing Crisis of American Jewish Identity
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 2000
Jewish Assimilation: Berlin As a Showcase
Solveig Eggerz, Issues
Summer 2000
Letter To The Editor
Edward J. Klein, Issues
Summer 2000
The Conflict Between Orthodoxy and Reform
John D. Rayner, Issues
Summer 2000
American Judaism in the 21st Century: Can It Meet the Challenge of Our Marketplace of Religious Ideas?
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 2000
Classical Reform Judaism: An Enduring Tradition
Author's Name Withheld, Issues
Spring 2000
Declaration of Principles - The Pittsburgh Platform of Reform Judaism 1885
American Council For Judaism, Issues
Spring 2000
"A Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism": A Critical View
Wolfgang Hamburger, Issues
Winter 2000
It Is Time to Confront the Exclusionary Ethnocentrism in Jewish Sacred Literature
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2000
Jews in the South: A Long History and a Feeling of Home
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 2000
Letter To The Editor
Rabbi Jay R. Brickman, Issues
Winter 2000
Debate Continues Over Future of Reform Judaism
ACJ, Issues
Fall 1999
A Jewish View of Jesus
John D. Rayner, Issues
Fall 1999
American Jewish Identity and the Holocaust: A Critical Examination of Its Growing Role
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 1999
A Universalist Jewish Agenda: Living Creatively and Responsibly
Rabbi Jay R. Brickman , Issues
Summer 1999
Changes in Reform Judaism: Ethnic Separation or Spiritual Renewal?
Paul Gottfrled, Issues
Summer 1999
Germany, Denmark and the Holocaust: Different Histories, Different Lessons
Solveig Eggerz, Issues
Summer 1999
Remembering the Vision of American Judaism’s Original Reformers
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 1999
Remembering Reform Judaism’s Founding Beliefs and Principles
ACJ, Issues
Spring 1999
Can Classical Reform Judaism Be Revived in the 21st Century?
Ralph Dombrower, Issues
Spring 1999
Where Do Our Loyalties Lie?
John D. Rayner, Issues
Spring 1999
Murder in the Name of God: Where Religious Extremism Can Lead
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 1999
An Exploration of Four Hundred Years of Jewish History in Virginia
Peter Egill Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 1999
Further Observations on the "Ten Principles"
Paul Gottfried, Issues
Winter 1999
Growing Intolerance: The Real Threat to Judaism’s Future
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 1999
More Than A Nation: The Cultural Zionism of Martin Buber
Solveig Eggerz, Issues
Fall 1998
Confronting the Founding Myths of Israel
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Fall 1998
The Zionizing of Reform Judaism
Wolfgang Hamburger, Issues
Fall 1998
The New Judaism?
Mayer Schiller, Issues
Summer 1998
Rising Above Jewish Ethnicity
Paul Gottfried, Issues
Summer 1998
God’s Mysterious Choice: Understanding Judaism’s Unique Mission
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Summer 1998
American Jews and Israel at 50: A Time for Reassessment
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Spring 1998
The Chosen People Become A Light To The Nations
Solveig Eggerz, Issues
Spring 1998
The Truth About The Pharisees
John D. Rayner, Issues
Spring 1998
Klaus J. Herrmann, 1929 – 1998
ACJ, Issues
Winter 1998
Only as a Religious Community Is Jewish Survival Possible
Allan C. Brownfeld, Issues
Winter 1998
God’s Elect: What Does It Mean To Be Chosen?
Solveig Eggerz, Issues
Winter 1998
Confronting the Myth of Jewish "Unity"
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Israel and American Jews: Sympathy, Not Loyalty
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Zionists and the Foreign Agents Investigation
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We and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis: Challenge and Response
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A Rabbi’s Critical Look at 100 Years of Jewish Nationalism
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The Smoke and Mirrors Approach to Reform(ed) Judaism
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Summer 1997
Fundamentalism
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Summer 1997
Zionism at 100: Remembering Its Often Prophetic Jewish Critics
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Milwaukee’s Congregation Sinai and the ACJ
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Spring 1997
A Jewish Universalist Agenda
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Spring 1997
Halachah In European Progressive Judaism
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Spring 1997
Searching for Jewish Identity In A Free and Open Society
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The Legacy of Clarence L. Coleman, Jr. 1903–1997
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Tribalism vs. Universality: The Triumph of Jonah and Ruth
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For Whom Does The "Jewish Establishment" Really Speak?
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Elmer Berger, 1908-1996
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Fall 1996
Elmer Berger: I Remember Him Well
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Fall 1996
Elmer Berger: A Spokesman For Justice
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Fall 1996
The Legacy of Elmer Berger
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Fall 1996
The Paradoxes of Zionism and Its Growing Irrelevance
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Isaac Wolfe Bernheim: A Crusader for a Prophetically Universalist "Israelitism"
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Summer 1996
Stock Figures in Jewish Folklore: Universal Yet Uniquely Jewish
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Summer 1996
Fear of Freedom: A Growing Jewish Dilemma
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Summer 1996
An Exchange About The New British Prayerbook, "Service of the New Heart"
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Spring 1996
The Land, The Law and The Liberal Conscience
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Spring 1996
Why Should Jews Survive
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Spring 1996
Jewish, Hebrew, Israelitic: What’s in a Name?
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Winter 1996
A Portrait of a Typical — And Typically Diverse — American Jewish Community
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Winter 1996
The Continuity of Judaism
Wolfgang Hamburger, Issues
Winter 1996
The Universal and Unique Nature of Jewish Folklore
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A New Philosophy of Judaism for the Modern Age
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Rhetorical Violence and Religious Extremism: A Deadly Combination
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Hannah Arendt’s Conscience and the Dilemma of Zionism
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The New Liberal and Progressive Prayerbook: A Strange Mixture of Universalism and Zionist Thinking
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Jewish "Continuity" and the Challenge of America’s Free and Open Society
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“Home Lands” a Portrait of Jews at Home in the World
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