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Exploring Jewish Ethics
Papers on Covenant Responsibility

Eugene B. Borowitz		 Is a post-modern liberal Jewish ethics possible? Can the personal freedom today's Jews cherish have an effective role in a life shaped by the claims of Jewish law and tradition?
For more than twenty years, a renowned Jewish thinker has been giving a positive answer to these questions. In the forty papers gathered here Eugene Borowitz rejects the forced choice of either anarchic liberalism or Orthodox legal discipline, halakhah, to create a new approach to Jewish ethics.
Borowitz agrees that modern democracy needs a religious foundation but insists it, too, has compelling spiritual insight, most notably in its reverence for individual dignity and group tolerance. Integrating the truths of modernity and tradition, he formulates an ethics of the autonomous Jewish self living in Covenant. 		Part 1: In Search of the Ground of Our Values
Part 2: America as Challenge and Opportunity
Part 3: The Jew as Individual: Personal Ethics
Part 4: The Jew in Community: Social Ethics
Part 5: Relating to Groups, Mine and Others
 
$54.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2199-2

500 pages

1990