{"product_id":"contemporary-humanistic-judaism-beliefs-values-practices-9780827615649","title":"Contemporary Humanistic Judaism: Beliefs, Values, Practices","description":"\u003cp\u003eOpening up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism to Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs, \u003cem\u003eContemporary Humanistic Judaism\u003c\/em\u003e collects the movement's most important texts for the first time and answers the oft-raised question, \"How can you be Jewish and celebrate Judaism if you don't believe in God?\" with new vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1 (\"Beliefs and Ethics\") examines core positive beliefs--in human agency, social progress, ethics without supernatural authority, sources of natural transcendence, and Humanistic Jews' own authority to remake their traditional Jewish inheritance on their own terms \"beyond God.\" Part 2 (\"Identity\") discusses how Humanistic Judaism empowers individuals to self-define as Jews, respects people's decisions to marry whom they love, and navigates the Israel-Diaspora relationship. Part 3 (\"Culture\") describes how the many worlds of Jewish cultural experience--art, music, food, language, heirlooms--ground Jewishness and enable endless exploration. Part 4 (\"Jewish Life\") applies humanist philosophy to lived Jewish experience: reimagined creative education (where students choose passages meaningful to them for their bar, bat, or b mitzvah [gender-neutral] celebrations), liturgy, life cycle, and holiday celebrations (where Hanukkah emphasizes the religious freedom to believe as one chooses).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish seekers, educators, and scholars alike will come to appreciate the unique ideologies and lived expressions of Humanistic Judaism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdam Chalom\u003c\/strong\u003e is dean for North America of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism and rabbi of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in suburban Chicago. \u003cstrong\u003eJodi Kornfeld\u003c\/strong\u003e is rabbi of Beth Chaverim Humanistic Jewish Community in suburban Chicago and past president of the Association of Humanistic Rabbis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Chalom\u003c\/b\u003e is dean for North America of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism and rabbi of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in suburban Chicago. \u003cb\u003eJodi Kornfeld\u003c\/b\u003e is rabbi of Beth Chaverim Humanistic Jewish Community in suburban Chicago and past president of the Association of Humanistic Rabbis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892810944786,"sku":"9780827615649","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f5cb4f3c-de9f-4b98-8dea-2cdf379fd08f.jpg?v=1738207447","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/contemporary-humanistic-judaism-beliefs-values-practices-9780827615649","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}