Must a Jew Believe Anything? (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

By Menachem Marc Kellner

Book Overview

The crucial question for today's Jewish world is not whether Jews will have Jewish grandchildren, but how many different sorts of mutually exclusive Judaisms those grandchildren will face. Menachem Kellner argues that the Orthodox practice of framing the debate with non-Orthodox movements in terms of dogmatic fidelity contrasted with heresy is not the traditional Jewish approach, and that the debate could well be framed in other ways, ways that would allow all Jews to work together towards a less polarized Jewish future.

'An important work in constructive Jewish philosophy by a leading international scholar of the field. It is also important as a document of the kind of thinking that characterizes modern Orthodoxy. The book is intelligent and academically solid as well as thought-provoking and controversial.'
Norbert Samuelson, CCAR Journal

'Over the last few years, an increasing number of people have been approaching me with crises of faith. One of the resources to which I direct them is Menachem Kellner's Must a Jew Believe Anything? It is, I believe, an outstanding work.'
Natan Slifkin, Rationalist Judaism

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1874774498
• ISBN13: 9781874774495
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"