Bonnie Cousens: 3 books

Is the return to tradition the answer for non-traditional Jews? How do we find the balance between tradition and innovation? Colloquium 1999 explored the history of non-traditional Jewish identities, including Reform, Reconstructionism, Zionism, the Bund, Jewish Renewal and Ethical Culture, culminating...

Did the Jewish people begin with Abraham? Did Moses write the Torah? Did the rabbis hate the Maccabees? Did the Greeks make a positive contribution to Hebrew culture? How did the rabbis become the religious establishment? What is the real connection between the Jews, trade and money? Were the Enlightenment...

More than half of the people in the Western world lead secular lives. Many see themselves as non-religious. And many of these non-religious people see themselves as spiritual. Can you be spiritual without being religious? Can you be rational and spiritual at the same time? Is there an ethical dimension...