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Title: Down-To-earth Judaism : Food, Money, Sex, And The Rest Of Life by Arthur Waskow ISBN: 0-688-15127-2 Publisher: Perennial Currents Pub. Date: 02 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Splendid
Comment: In this title, Waskow explores important basic issues through a variety of lenses, and his insights are wide-ranging. Judaism has changed significantly, he points out, over the ages; Biblical Judaism differed from Rabbinic Judaism, and it's possible that we're approaching a new turn of the spiral, a "post-Rabbinic" age in which Judaism may grow into new forms. Those forms, whatever they may be, will be shaped by how Jews of today and tomorrow address food (eating, kashrut, and also other kinds of "consumption"), money (cash, class, tzedakah/righteous giving), sex (the whole matrix of sexual and erotic relationships, between and among the genders), and rest (work, play, and Shabbat) .Waskow's trademark warmth, scholarship, and wry humor are apparent throughout "Down-to-Earth Judaism." I recommend this book highly.
Rating: 1
Summary: Having 3, 4 or more people "marry" each other isn't Judaism
Comment: I'm sorry, but this isn't down-to-Earth Judaism, or any form of Judaism at all. It is about justifying the author's lifestyle, and that's about it. Its promotes the uninhibited excess that rabbinic Judaism has always fought against.
In his chapter on "The Meaning of Marriage", Waskow proposes that 3 (or more) men and women can have sex with each other in "poly-fidelity" marriages, and that we should regard these pagan activities as "Jewish".
This book isn't about liberal Jewish ethics; in this chapter it is about anti-Jewish ethics. I hope that no gentiles read this book and mistake the author for being a mainstream Jew. Better to get books by Michael Gold or Shmuel Boteach than this.
Rating: 1
Summary: Waskow's supporters, not his opponents, are 'zealots'
Comment: If you've ever watched _Dharma & Greg_ and chuckled at Larry Finkelstein, then you've already caught the flavor of 'Rabbi' Arthur Waskow. Waskow's 'loyalty' to Torah is entirely self-serving and his 'interpretations' are convincing only to thoroughly credulous leftists with out-of-focus minds. Moses Maimonides would have had him for lunch.
For balance, read David Horowitz's _The Politics of Bad Faith_. (Horowitz has an air of zealotry himself, but he's much nearer right about the nature of leftist politics than Waskow will ever be.) Then check out some Jewish thinkers who aren't trapped in the Woodstock Era.
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Title: The Jewish Study Bible: Tanakh Translation, Torah, Nevi'Im, Kethuvim by Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler, Michael Fishbane ISBN: 0195297512 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Seasons of Our Joy: A Modern Guide to the Jewish Holidays by Arthur I. Waskow, Martin Farren, Joan Benjamin-Farren ISBN: 0807036110 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ilya Schor ISBN: 0374512671 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1975 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Lord Is My Shepherd : Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm by HAROLD S. KUSHNER ISBN: 1400040566 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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