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Aaron, 5–6, 39, 48, 56 Ben & Jerry’s, 157 Abba Sikrah, 59 Ben Azzai, 8, 10 Abbaye, 74 Ben Haim, Rabbi Eliahu, 109, Abraham, xi, xii, 23, 73, 121, 112, 164 141–142 Benhabib, Selya, 99, 103 Abramoff, Jack, 14, 163, 165, Berger, Michael, 167 167–168, 176, 198 Berkowitz, Rabbi Eliezer, 28, 46, Abtalion, 141 71, 73 accountability, 21, 38, 74, 79, 113, Bibi, Rabbi David, 112–113 158–159, 180, 184, 186, 192 Birnbaum, Philip, 12, 14, 24, 54, Ackerman, Bruce, 144, 145 65, 160, 161 Adam and Eve, 27, 161 Bloom, Stephen, 127 Adler, Rachel, 11, 24 Boaz, 12–14 Agriproccesors, 71, 76–79, 88, 119, Boesky, Ivan, 14 125–130, 132–134, 164 Bonder, Rabbi Nilton, 6, 8, 19, 24, Agudas Yisroel, 88 120, 135, 149, 155, 159, 161 Akiva, 8, 43, 53, 171–172, 196–198 Boulding, Kenneth, 156, 161 Allen, Rabbi Morris, 129, 192 Boyarin, Daniel, 11, 24 Allen, Woody, 4, 167 Brecht, Bertolt, 28 Alstott, Anne, 144, 145 Buber, Martin, xiv, 97, 103, 153, Amalek, 49 159, 179, 198 Amir, Yigal, 75–76, 117 Buchhholz, Rogene, 100, 103 Amos, 44 Annie Hall, 4 Caillois, Roger, 161 anti-Semitism, 110–112, 165, 173 Callahan, David, 93, 103 Ariel, Rabbi Yisrael, 20 capital punishment, 43, 155 Aron, Lewis, 24 Caro, Rabbi Yosef, 170 Carse, James, 92, 98–100, 103, Badaracco, Joseph, 4, 24 152, 157, 159, 161 Bal, Mieke, 11, 24 Carter, Stephen, 137, 145 Bar Illan University, 34 Cattle Buyers Weekly, 127 Bar Kochba, 43 Centrist Orthodoxy, 69–71 Bateson, Gregory, 161 chaos, xii, 124 Bathsheba, 102 chesed (kindness), 14, 141–142 202 Index

Chofetz Chayim, 85, 89 Empire, 129 Choose life, 18, 40, 45 emunah (faith), 18 choseness, 29, 35 Esau, 15 Cohen, Hermann, 123 Esbjorn-Hargens, Sean, 150, 156, 162 compromise, xiii, 47–65, 75, 105, 117, Eternal Jewish Family, 164 120, 133, 137 ethics and play, xiv, 2–5, 149–161 Consumption tax, 144 Ezekiel, 51 covenantal leadership, 57 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 150, Feuerstein, Aaron, 123–125, 133, 135 161, 192, 198 financial fraud, 76, 128, 164 Fish, Mordechai, 164 deeds of lovingkindness, 59–61 Flax, Jane, 157, 161 Defining moment, 59 Forbes Magazine, 125 democracy, 4, 75–76, 8587, 117, 137–139, 144, 173 foreign workers, 7, 128, 132, 139 Dennett, Daniel, 106, 116, 117 forgiveness, 3, 48, 64, 100, 179 Derech eretz, 72 Forward, 128, 130, 133 Dersowitz, Alan, xiv Frank, Robert, 144, 145 Des Moines Register, 129 Freud, Sigmund, 94 Dewey, John, 32, 46, 101, 103, 134, Friedlander, Dr. Lester, 128 135, 185, 186 Friedman, Rabbi Moshe Manis, 42–43 dialogue, xii, xiii, 1, 4, 11, 16, 17, Fromm, Eric, 9 21–23, 28, 30, 33, 34, 41, 43, 57, 63, 64, 72, 74, 75, 79, 80, 85–88, Garrison, Jim, 101, 103, 120, 92, 93, 98, 99, 101, 102, 105–107, 134, 135 110, 112, 115, 116, 121, 132, gay rights, 70, 74, 173 150, 155, 166, 179, 182, 185, Ghent, Emmanuel, 10, 24, 37–38, 46 190, 193, 195 Glover, Jonathan, 174, 198 Dickens, Charles, 115 Goldin, Judah, 62, 142 Dickinson, Emily, 22 Gordon, Gwen, 150, 156, 162 Donaldson, Thomas, 183, 198 Gorenberg, Gershim, 115, 117 Dunfee, Thomas, 183, 198 Goya, Fransico, 105, 117 Dunlap, Al, 123 Green, Arthur, 55 Dwek, Rabbi Isaac, 109, 114 Greenberg, Blu, 11, 24 Dwek, Solomon, 109, 113, 114 Greenberg, Rabbi Irving, 28, 45, 46, Ecclesiastes, 149, 160 177–182, 185, 187, 198 eco-kashrut, 191 Greenberg, Rabbi Stephen, 194 Eigen, Michael, 8, 24, 34, 42, Grossman, David, 17, 24 44, 45, 46 Eight levels of charity, 143 Halakhah (Jewish Law), 64, 67–69, Elon, Mordechai, 164–165, 167, 71–76, 78, 188, 195 168, 176, 198 Harlop, Rabbi Yaacov Moshe, 50–52, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 10, 93, 103 56, 61–62 Emperor’s Club VIP, 95 Hartman, Ed, 183–185, 199 Index 203

Hartman, Rabbi David, 36–37, 45, 46, Kassin, Rabbi Saul, 109, 112, 73, 75, 82, 117, 135, 139–140, 164–165, 167–168, 176 145, 188–189, 199 Kavod Habriyot(human dignity), 193, healthcare, 74, 142, 173 195–196 Hebrew Language Academy Charter Kegan, Robert, 98, 103, 156, 162 School, 198 Kellner, Menachem, 167–168, Hebrew National, 129 170–172 Hechser Tzedek, 129 Kessef Mishnah, 178 Herberg, Will, 187, 199 K’hal Adath Jehurum, 129 Herman Miller, 157 King David, 12, 13, 42, 102, 169 Herzfeld, Rabbi Shmuel, 129 King, Martin Luther, 103 Heschel, Rabbi Abraham Joshua, 53, Korah, 5–7 65, 72, 82, 103, 189–190, 199 Kristeva, Julia, 120, 135 Hillel, xvii, 58, 96, 119, 121, 140–141 Kula, Rabbi Irwin, 8, 16, 25, 54, 65, Hofstadter, Douglas, 54, 65 121, 135, 194, 199 Holocaust (Shoah), 174, 177–178, 180–181, 187 Lahey, 156, 162 Hosea, 59 Lahey, Lisa Laskow, 156, 162 human rights, 173, 183 Lamm, Rabbi Norman, 34, 45, 46, hypernorms, 182–198 141, 143, 145, 170, 172, 199 lashon hara (slander), xiii, 85–89 identity, 7, 15, 16–17, 19, 32, 38, Lebowitz, Nechama, 139 51, 106, 154, 179, 181 Lekh lekha (go forth), 23 income inequality, 138, 142 Lerner, Michael, 144, 145 inside information, 15 Levine, Aaron, 103, 144, 145 Isaac, 15 Lichtenstein, Rabbi Aharon, 67–82 Isaacs, William, 98 lifnim mishurat hadin (beyond the Isaiah, 44 letter of the law), 67–69, 73–74 Lincoln, Abraham, 95–96, 102 Jacob, 15, 176, 178 Long Island Jewish Star, 112 Jacobs, Rabbi Louis, 53, 65 loving the stranger, xiii, 11, 14, 45, James, William, 32, 163 119–121, 123, 125, 133–134, 173 Jensen and Meckling, 2, 24, 25 Luzzato, Rabbi Chaim, 167–168, Jerusalem Post, 75, 117, 138 170–171, 174 Jewish Press, 111, 116 Jewish Principles and Ethical Madoff, Bernard, xiv-xvii, 3, 14, 163, Guidelines (JPEG), 76–79 165, 167, 168, 176, 198 Job, 52–53, 141–142 Magen Tzedek, 192 Jubilee, 138–139, 144 Maharal, 168 Maimonides, xi, 32, 35, 36, 37, 40, 45, Kagan, Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen, 85 53, 64, 65, 67, 113, 122, Kakun, Yitzhak, 110 143–144, 170–171, 174–175, Kant, Immanuel, 93 178, 187 kashrut, 71, 76–79, 128, 130, Malden Mills, 123–124, 133 190–192 March, James, 152–153, 157–162 204 Index

Margalit, Avishai, 47–49, 52, 58, Nussbaum, Martha, 173, 199 61–63, 65 Marra, Ralph J., 109 Orand, Shannon, 164 Meir, Rabbi Asher, 79 Orthodox Union, 77–78, 88, Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, 50 128–129, 131, 192 Mesillat Yesharim (Path of the Just), 167 Ouderkirk, Father Floyd Paul, 133 Messiah or messianism, 13–14, 29, 30, 42–45, 62, 171–172, 174, Passover, 60, 142, 175 178, 181, 187, 190 Persico, Carmine, 163 Micah, 44 PETA, 127–128, 130–131 Mishnah Torah, 178 Pharaoh, 18, 19, 121 MIT, xiv Phillips, Adam, 1, 11, 13–15, 18, Mitchell, Stephen, 8–10, 17, 24, 22–23, 25 25, 96, 103 Piaget, Jean, 9, 153 mitzvot, 36, 68, 70, 139 Pinchas, 48–53, 56 Modern Orthodoxy, 71–72, 74, 78 Plaskow, Judith, 11, 25 money laundering, xiii, 76, 105, pluralism, 17, 75, 117, 137, 179–180, 108–110, 117, 164 188, 196 moral capital, 44, 96, 113, 166 Polartec Fleece, 123 moral imagination, 105, 134, 173, Ponzi Scheme, 2 180, 196 Popper, Nathaniel, 126–127 moser (traitor or informant), 113, 117 Porritt, 157, 162 Moses, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 35, 39, 40, 49, Postville, Iowa, 76, 126–127, 129 55–58, 67, 78, 171–172 Quinn, Robert, 101, 103 Naamah, 29–30, 45 Nachmanovich, Stephen, 7, 25 Rabban Gamliel, 197 Nachson ben Aminadab, 18–20 Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, 140 Nadab and Abihu, 39–40 Rabbi Bunam, 97 Nahmanides, 28, 45 Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah, 197 Nahum, Rabbi Edmund, 109, Rabbi Eliezer ben Azariah, 72 112, 164 Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa, 167 Naomi, 12–13 Rabbi Joshua, 197 Nathan, 102 Rabbi Mordecai, 97–98 National Council of Young Israel, 134 Rabbi Yannai, 94–95 National Jewish Center for Learning Rabbi Yehuda, 18 and Leadership, 194 Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, 43, Nehring, Cristina, 9, 25 58–62, 64 nepotism, 183 Rabbincal Council of America, 71, 88, Netziv, 114 129, 166 New York State Board of Regents, 198 Rabin, Yitzhak, 75–76, 117 New York Times, 35, 88, 95, racism, 36, 173 127, 130, 131 Rackman, Rabbi Emanuel, 34, 46, Ninth of Av, 31–33 72, 82 nostalgia, 29, 31–32, 41, 43–45 Raful, Rabbi Ezra, 128 Index 205

Rashi, 15, 41, 140, 170 slavery, 19, 173 rational model (of decision-making), 2, Soloveitchik, Rabbi Joseph, 29–31, 158, 160 38, 46, 64 Reconsturctionist Rabbincal Spitzer, Eliot, 14, 91, 94–97, 102 College, 191 Springstein, Bruce, 32 Repentance, xi, 48, 64, 179 Stakeholder Society, 144 Riskin, Rabbi Shlomo, 57, 65, 135 Starr, Karen, 11, 25, 38, 46, 116, 117 Rollin, Dr. Bernard, 128 Steinhardt, Michael, 198 Rorty, Richard, 92, 103, 154–155, strange loop, 54 162, 173, 199 Strenger, Carolo, 107–108, 110–111, Rosen, Rabbi David, 128 114–115, 117 Rosenthal, Sandra, 100, 103 Submission, 29, 37–40, 43–45, Ross, Tamar, 11, 25 100, 184 Roth, Philip, 41, 46 sustainability, 86, 143, 157–158 Rothenberg, Naftali, 40, 46 Sutton-Smith, 161, 162 Rubashkin, Aaron, 76, 125–126, Swift, Jonathan, 23 131–132 Rubashkin, Moshe, 126, 130 Tamar, 30 Rubashkin, Shalom, 76, 126–134, 164 Taylor, Mark, 16, 54 Ruth, 12–14 Telushkin, Joseph, 94, 104 Temple Institute, 20–21 Sabbath conciousness, 139, Teutsch, Rabbi David, 191, 199 188–190, 192 The Body Shop, 157 Sabbatical laws, 139–140 Thoreau, Henry David, 102 Sack, Rabbi Jonathan, 119, 122, Tianmen Square, 103 135, 193, 196, 199 tikkun olam, 169, 196 Sacred messiness, 16, 89, 121 Time Magazine, 123 Safran, Rabbi Avi, 130 Titmus, Richard, 22 Samson and Delilah, 30 tochacha(moral rebuke), 85 Samuel, 7, 13, 49–53, 56, 102 Tom’s of Maine, 157 Samuel, 7, 13, 49–53, 56, 102 Torbert, Bill, 154, 162 Sandel, Michael J., 189–190, 199 Transformation, xi, 10, 38, 150 Sarasvathy, Saras, 125, 135 triple-bottom line, 79, 157 Saul, 13, 49–51 Troppper, Rabbi Leib, 164–165, Schwartz, Lavel, 164 167, 168, 176, 198 sexual abuse, 71, 87, 174 Twersky, Isadore, 141, 144 Shabbatai Zevi, 44 tzedakah(charity), 143–144 Shakespeare, Wiliam, 27 Shalom Center, 191 Unger, Roberto Mangabeira, 119, Sharansky, Natan, 16–18, 22, 25 120, 135 Shema Prayer, 8, 86 Uri L’zedek, 129 Shemaya, 141 Uriah, 102 Shir Ha-Shirim, 52–53 Uriah the Priest, 197 Shulkhan Aruch, 170 Uriah the Priest, 197 Singer, Peter, 92 utility maximization, 2, 24, 25 206 Index utopia or utopianism, 29, 163, 178 Yale University, 99 Yavneh, 43, 59–61 Voltaire, 33 Yehuda Halevi, 37 yeridat hadorot (decline of the walk humbly before God, 45 generations), 167–170, 172, 175, Wall Street, xiv, 94 178, 181, 187 Walzer, Michael, 21, 25, 91, 104, 153, Yeshiva University, 34, 88, 130, 164, 162, 174–176, 199 172, 174, 194 Waskow, Rabbi Arthur, 191, 199 You shall be holy, 16, 54 wealth inequalities, xiii, 86, 137 Youtube, 87 Weinreb, Rabbi Zvi, 128 Winnicott, D.W., 150, 162 Zechariah, 197 Women of the wall, 36 Zelophehad, daughters of, 56 Wurzburger, Rabbi Walter, 37, 46, Zornberg, Aviva, ix, 2–5, 7, 12, 13, 72, 82, 141, 143, 145 15, 16, 17, 23, 25, 134, 135