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Title: Nothing Sacred : The Truth About Judaism by DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF ISBN: 0-609-61094-5 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Most Important Book about Judaism in Many Years
Comment: I think Howard Rheingold (Smart Mobs, Virtual Community) said it better than I can. Here's his review of this book:
"I read Nothing Sacred reluctantly, from a stance of deep skepticism, and learned to my delight and enlightenment, that this is truly a Jewish approach. Rushkoff uses millennia of Jewish teachings to reveal that God is indeed to be questioned not obeyed, created not worshipped, continually revised, reconsidered, and debated - not graven in stone. I truly believe this book might end up as one of the most important works of Jewish literature, worthy of comparison with Maimonides and Buber. Many will be outraged and even furious at Rushkoff for daring to revise the Jewish tradition of self-questioning. I thank him for helping me feel like a Jew again."
So when you read reviews like the fundamentalist, below, or even the orthodox extremists in some of the editorial reviews above, remember that they feel their God is being attacked and can't defend himself. Then they go nuts, and make stuff up. The reviewer from JPost suggests that Rushkoff is promoting a Socialist Presidential candidate - when there' s no mention in this book of anything of the kind.
Indeed, this book is worthy of comparison with Spinoza and Maimonides, who were also persecuted by the corrupt Jewish establishment for trying to share with the world that Judaism is actually a universal truth and not a racist sect. Or, at least it was meant to be.
Rating: 5
Summary: The End of Judaism, but what comes Next?
Comment: Rushkoff's skill is to absorb the pertinent information in any given system of social OR academic knowledge, and then find the ways in which this knowledge can either HELP or HINDER individuals. His foundation in writing this book is a desire for human freedom, and his message is that Judaism, a religion based on untrapping God from any alter OR pedestal OR social system, has itself become an entrapping social system.
One of my favorite ideas in the book is a suggestion made to him by a rabbi about how to communicate with others about differences in faith; the pertinent question is to ask "WHY do you believe what you believe," instead of the old, sterotype-enforcing "WHAT do you believe?"
People get from this book what they put into it, and if you read with an open mind, it has a multitude of gems on every page.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stresses the humanity and wisdom of Judaism
Comment: This, of course, is not the only book to stress (sad that it needs stressing, these days) the humanity and wisdom of Judaism and its influence in making the modern progressive world. For me it's sad that the book needed to be written at all, but with the increase of Jewish (and fundamentalist Christian) zealotry and the apparent decrease in the intellectual tradition, these things have to be restated. In a changing world people always tend to fall back on know-nothingism, on 'faith' (that is, blinkered fundamentalism) and on anti-intellectualism. Both traditions have existed in Judaism since time began, it seems, but until recently the best tradition, the liberal tradition, has dominated America and Western Europe. Now it seems the old, fearful tradition is beginning to dominate US politics, if not the politics of the rest of the world, and that can only be a bad thing for the world and for Judaism. At a time when Israel's policies have fueled the incipient anti-Semitism of Middle America, we should be reaching out and speaking out, emphasising the great tradition of humane and progressive decency which is the core of real Judaism, not shaking our fists at our enemies and calling for God to strike them dead. Let those of us who respect and revere the great Judaic traditions of liberal thought and humane action emphasise what we stand for. One of the ways of doing this would be to buy this book, perhaps together with Martin Gilbert's Letters to Auntie Fori, and give it to as many non-Jewish friends as possible. Meanwhile we can only continue to assert our own broad-mindedness and traditions of liberal activism which helped create the best elements in modern America and, indeed, much of the world.
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Title: Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say by Douglas Rushkoff ISBN: 157322829X Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment by Marc Gafni ISBN: 0743417003 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The New Anti-Semitism : The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It by Phyllis Chesler ISBN: 078796851X Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 11 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Right to Exist : A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars by YAACOV LOZOWICK ISBN: 0385509057 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Ecstasy Club: A Novel by Douglas Rushkoff ISBN: 1573227021 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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