Principles of positive historical judaism -- Liturgy: addressing the sacred -- Halakhah: living the sacred -- Sacred text -- Sacred history -- Finding God in history -- Appendix 1: Women and the Minyan (2002) -- Appendix 2: The Halakhah of same-sex relations in a new context -- Appendix 3: Solomon Schechter and the ambivalence of Jewish Wissenschaft (1997) -- Appendix 4: The meaning of Catholic Israel (1998)
Summary
Passionate centrism is an important discussion of Positive Historical Judaism and the benefit of holding the center of Judaism--that is, the Conservative Movement. This book is an important resource for clergy and other congregational leaders and is an excellent product for lecture series
