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Hank Greenberg's Swing Allan Arkush Zion & Other Places Noah Efron Idealism in Tel Aviv JEWISH REVIEW Volume 2, Number 2 Summer 2011 $6.95 OF BOOKS Eitan Kensky Hank Greenberg’s Swing Jerome E. Copulsky Moses Mendelssohn’s Enlightenment Robert Alter Amichai: The Poet at Play Dara Horn Glatstein: The Poet at Prophecy Shaul Magid The Hasidim: An Underground History Meir Soloveichik Irving Kristol’s “Neo-Orthodoxy” PLUS Nadia Kalman, Shoshana Olidort & Anne Trubek on Super Sad Curably Romantic Sort-of-True New Fiction CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBIS Editor Abraham Socher Publisher Founded In Eric Cohen 1889 Senior Contributing Editor Food for ought from CCAR Press Allan Arkush THE Creating a Jewish Food Ethic Editorial Board This volume is exactly what the Jewish community needs. The Sacred Table takes on the big questions about what it means to eat in a way consistent with our e Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic values in the age of the factory farm and industrial food. Especially impressive is the way it brings Jewish insights to bear on animal protection, ecological issues, and SACRE THE dietary choices like going vegetarian or being a selective omnivore. There is no better Robert Alter resource on Judaism and food available today. — Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals and Everything is Illuminated Edited by Mary L. Zamore Shlomo Avineri This important and beautifully written book of essays encouraging liberal Jews to develop a values-based dietary practice is in the best Reform tradition of mining TABLE SACRED Jewish rituals for their spiritual potential. It reminds us that what we put in our mouths Foreword by Eric H. Yoffi e has a lot to say about who we are and what we value—a conversation on everyone’s lips today. Leora Batnitzky —Sue Fishkoff, author of Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority Preface by Nigel Savage of Hazon Reform Jews have been evolving their own, unique American form of kashrut for TABLE Ruth Gavison generations. Zamore’s The Sacred Table is, effectively, its proto-Talmud. These essays do not justify what we’ve left out, they focus, instead, on what Reform Jews are respectfully adding to Jewish legal tradition. They testify to both Reform Judaism’s growing Creating a Jewish Food Ethic maturity and tradition’s continued vitality. This is the right book, by all the right people, at the right time. Moshe Halbertal —Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, Edit The Emanu-El Scholar at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco and the author is groundbreaking new volume explores a diversity of of several books on Jewish spirituality and mysticism, including, I’m God; You’re Not: Foreword by Eric H. 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