American Rabbis, Second Edition: Facts and Fiction

This book is a broad-brush approach describing the realities of life in the American rabbinate. Factual portrayals are supplemented by examples drawn from fiction--primarily novels and short stories. Chapters include:

♣Rabbinic Training

♣Congregational Rabbis and Their Communities

♣Congregants' Views of Their Rabbis

♣Women Rabbis [also including examples from TV and Cinema]

♣Assimilation, Intermarriage, Patrilineality, and Human Sexuality

♣God, Israel, and Tradition

This book draws upon sociolog...