Introduction--The State of Jewish Ideas: Towards a New Jewish Canon --
I. Jewish Politics and the Public Square --
1. Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution --
2. George Steiner, "Our Homeland, the Text," 1985; Judith Butler, "Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS," 2013 --
3. Jonathan Woocher, Sacred Survival --
4. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 and The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited Ari Shavit, "Survival of the Fittest? An Interview with Benny Morris" and "Lydda, 1948" --
5. Irving Greenberg vs. Meir Kahane, Public Debate at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale --
6. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State --
7. Israeli Knesset Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty Aharon Barak, "A Judge on Judging: The Role of a Supreme Court in a Democracy" --
8. Aharon Lichtenstein, "On the Murder of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin z"l" --
9. Aviezer Ravitzky, Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism --
10. The Israeli Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice: Horev v. Minister of Transportation, 1997 The Israeli Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice: Baruch Marzel v. Jerusalem District Police Commander, Mr. Aharon Franco, 2002 --
11. Samuel G. Freedman, Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry --
12. Breaking the Silence Testimonies --
13. Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer, "Whatever Happened to the Jewish People?" --
14. Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur, Torat HaMelekh --
15. Moshe Halbertal, "The Goldstone Illusion" --
16. Peter Beinart, "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment" --
17. Daniel Gordis, "When Balance Becomes Betrayal" Sharon Brous, "Lowering the Bar" --
18. Matti Friedman, "An Insider's Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth" --
II. History, Memory, and Narrative --
1. David Hartman, "Auschwitz or Sinai?" --
2. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory --
3. Emil Fackenheim, To Mend the World --
4. Robert M. Cover, "The Supreme Court, 1982 Term--Foreword: Nomos and Narrative" --
6. Amos Oz, In the Land of Israel --
7. David Biale, Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History --
8. Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech --
9. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved --
10. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Third Great Cycle of Jewish History" --
11. Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust Yaffa Eliach, There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok --
12. Haym Soloveitchik, "Rupture and Reconstruction" --
13. Naomi Seidman, "Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage" --
15. Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History --
16. David Weiss Halivni, Breaking the Tablets: Jewish Theology After the Shoah --
17. Ruth Wisse, "How Not to Remember and How Not to Forget" --
18. Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers --
III. Religion and Religiosity --
1. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Halakhic Man --
2. Rabbi Yehoshua Yeshaya Neuwirth, Shemirath Shabbath Kehilchathah --
3. The Complete Artscroll Siddur --
4. David Hartman, A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism --
5. Neil Gillman, Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew Eugene Borowitz, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew --
6. Rachel Adler, "In Your Blood, Live: Re- visions of a Theological Purity" --
7. Rodger Kamenetz, The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India --
8. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Genesis: The Beginning of Desire --
9. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel (ed.), Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity --
10. Noam Zion and David Dishon, A Different Night: The Family Participation Haggadah --
11. Mendel Shapiro, "Qeri'at Ha-Torah by Women: A Halakhic Analysis" --
12. Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations --
13. Rav Shagar, Broken Vessels --
14. Arthur Green, Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition Daniel Landes, "Hidden Master" Arthur Green and Daniel Landes, "God, Torah, and Israel: An Exchange" --
15. Elie Kaunfer, Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us About Building Vibrant Jewish Communities --
IV. Identities and Comm --
1. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Letter to the Jewish Community of Teaneck --
2. Blu Greenberg, On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition --
3. Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People Alan Lew, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation --
4. Evelyn Torton Beck (ed.), Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology Susannah Heschel (ed.), On Being a Jewish Feminist --
5. Paul Cowan with Rachel Cowan, Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage --
6. Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective --
7. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America --
8. Barry Kosmin, Highlights of the CJF 1990 National Jewish Population Survey "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," Pew Research Center --
9. Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy Paula Hyman, "Who is an Educated Jew?" Vanessa Ochs, "Ten Jewish Sensibilities" --
10. Yaakov Levado, "Gayness and God: Wrestlings of an Orthodox Rabbi" --
11. Leonard Fein, "Smashing Idols and Other Prescriptions for Jewish Continuity" --
12. Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen, The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America --
13. A. B. Yehoshua, "The Meaning of Homeland" --
14. Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel S. Nevins, and Avram I. Reisner, "Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah: A Combined Responsum for the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards" --
15. Noah Feldman, "Orthodox Paradox" Jay Lefkowitz, "The Rise of Social Orthodoxy: A Personal Account" --
16. Tamar Biala and Nechama Weingarten- Mintz (eds.), Dirshuni: Midrashei Nashim --
17. Leon Wieseltier, "Language, Identity, and the Scandal of American Jewry" --
18. Ruth Calderon, "The Heritage of All Israel" --
19. Rick Jacobs, "The Genesis of Our Future" --