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| Introduction | |
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| Between People: How to Be a Good Person in a Complicated World | |
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| Does Judaism Have an Essence? | |
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| When to Give, What to Give, How to Give: Why Tzedaka Is Not Charity | |
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| Helping the Helpless: What Are Our Obligations to Society's Most Vulnerable Members? | |
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| Mensch - Nine Challenges a Good Person Must Meet | |
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| Honesty, Dishonesty, and the "Gray Areas" in Between | |
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| "You Must Pay Him His Wages on the Same Day": Between Employers and Employees | |
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| Truth, Lies, and Permissible Lies | |
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| "Sticks and Stones" and Words: The Ethics of Speech | |
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| Arguing Ethically | |
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| The Obligation to Criticize, How to Do So, and When to Remain Silent | |
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| When Life Is at Stake | |
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| "It Is As If He Saved the Entire World": The Infinite Value of Each Human Life | |
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| "All Jews Are Responsible One for Another": Communal Responsibilities | |
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| Models of Leadership | |
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| "Listen to Her Voice": Conflicting Biblical and Talmudic Views of the Character of Women | |
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| "It Is Not Good for Man to Be Alone": Jewish Perspectives on Marriage | |
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| "For Love Is As Strong as Death": Romantic Love | |
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| Sex: The Commanded, the Permitted, the Forbidden | |
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| "Be Fruitful and Multiply": The Duty to Have Children | |
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| Between Parents and Children | |
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| If the Fetus Is Not a Life, What Is It?: Judaism and Abortion | |
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| "Even the Altar Sheds Tears": Divorce | |
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| "Love Your Neighbor" | |
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| "Either Friends or Death": Friendship | |
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| "When I Was Young, I Admired Clever People. Now that I Am Old...": Kindness and Compassion | |
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| "What Does a Good Guest Say?": Good Manners | |
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| "If You See Your Enemy's Donkey": A Jewish Alternative to Jesus' Command: "Love Your Enemies" | |
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| The Terrible Toll of Hatred | |
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| Good Advice on Fifteen Subjects | |
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| Personal Issues: Judaism and the Quest for Meaning | |
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| Human Nature - A Somber Look | |
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| The Human Condition: Four Parables and a Bushel of Quotes | |
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| On Suffering | |
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| "One Does More, and One Does Less": Humility | |
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| "Did You See My Alps?": Against Asceticism | |
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| "What Have I in Common with Jews?": Alienation | |
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| "A Person Is Always Liable for His Actions": Free Will and Human Responsibility | |
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| Old Age: Anguish and Opportunities | |
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| "The Anniversary of a Death, That a Jew Remembers": Death and Mourning | |
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| "A Sentinel Who Has Deserted His Post": Suicide | |
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| The Afterlife | |
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| "Who Is Rich?" | |
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| Between People and God: What God Wants from Us | |
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| God | |
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| Is God Necessary for Morality? | |
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| Idolatry and Its Attractions | |
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| Chosen People: A Beautiful, but Often Misunderstood, Concept | |
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| Jews and God After the Holocaust | |
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| How Does One Sanctify God's Name? How Does One Desecrate It? | |
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| Martyrs: Those Who Died at Kiddush ha-Shem (to Sanctify God's Name) | |
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| Mitzvah (Commandment) and Some of the Distinguishing Characteristics of Judaism | |
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| Studying Torah | |
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| "How Can We Tell When a Sin We Have Committed Has Been Pardoned?": On Repentance and Sin | |
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| Prayer | |
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| Rabbis | |
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| "Your People Shall Be My People": Converts | |
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| "You Shall Rejoice in Your Festival": A Few Scattered Thoughts on Jewish Holidays | |
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| Between People and the World: Jewish Values Confront Modern Values | |
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| "People Would Swallow Each Other Alive": Against Anarchy | |
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| "Let the Law Cut Through the Mountain": Jewish Principles of Justice | |
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| Murder and the Death Penalty: The Conflicting Views of the Bible and Talmud | |
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| "Must the Sword Devour Forever?": Jewish Reflections on War | |
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| Against Utopianism | |
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| "Poverty Would Outweigh Them All": The Curse of Poverty | |
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| "A Physician Who Heals for Nothing Is Worth Nothing": Medicine and Doctors | |
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| "For There Will Be No One to Repair It After You": Toward a Jewish Ecology | |
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| "His Mercy Is upon All His Works": Jewish Ethics Toward Animals | |
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| Modern Jewish Experience: Major Themes | |
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| Antisemitism | |
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| Antisemitism and the American-Jewish Experience | |
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| Philosemitism | |
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| Assimilation and Intermarriage | |
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| A Miscellany: On Sports, Jewish Denominations, and Communism | |
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| The Holocaust | |
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| The Holocaust: A Prologue | |
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| What the Nazis Said | |
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| The Experience of the "Final Solution": Six Stories out of Six Million | |
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| Before and During the Holocaust: Reactions in the West | |
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| "Like Lambs to the Slaughter": Why Did More Jews Not Fight Back? | |
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| "Then They Came for Me, and There Was No One Left": Heroic Words and Tragic Quotes | |
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| "Let Them Go to Hell": Jewish Rage at the Nazis | |
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| "Let Not the Murderers of Our Nation Also Be Its Heirs": The Debate over German Reparations | |
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| "As Your Sword Has Made Women Childless...": The Eichmann Trial | |
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| "That Place Is Not Your Place:" Ronald Reagan and the Bitburg Controversy | |
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| On Holocaust Deniers | |
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| The Holocaust and Its Meaning for Christians | |
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| "One, Plus One, Plus One": Six Final Quotes on the Holocaust | |
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| Zionism and Israel | |
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| The Land of Israel in the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish Law | |
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| Theodor Herzl: Zionism's Founder | |
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| Chaim Weizmann and the Balfour Declaration | |
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| Vladimir Jabotinsky | |
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| David Ben-Gurion | |
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| Golda Meir | |
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| Menachem Begin | |
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| "It Is Good to Die for Our Country": Other Zionist Leaders and Other Quotes About Israel | |
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| Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism | |
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| On Being a Jew: Modern Reflections | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |