Book Description

A Night of Questions is a unique four-in-one Haggadah that includes outlines for customizing a Seder for the people present at the table. The four menus include a Seder for young children, a Seder for older children with adults, a Seder for groups of diverse backgrounds (including those who are not Jewish), and a Seder focusing on the role of women.

Customer Reviews (17)

The only liberal Haggadah you will need
This year we had 25 to Sedar, so I ordered extra copies.
If you are looking for a liberal hagaddah, it has tremendous breadth and depth.

Most User-Friendly Haggadah
I have somewhere between 20 and 30 different Haggadot.A Night of Questions is not only one of the richest and most thought-provoking in my collection... it is also the most user-friendly. It's the only one that has a table of contents that breaks down the Maggid section into its familiar parts (4 Children, Dayenu, etc.)The outlines of 4 different types of seders in the back of the book are very helpful. There's something here for every one.The commentaries address the hard questions that are likely to arise in the minds of those who are really thinking about what we are saying, such as:"Would it really have been 'enough for us' had we come out of Egypt and not been given the Torah and not come into the Land of Israel?" IMPORTANT NOTE: I see that Amazon is showing this as 4-6 weeks delivery.I know that they are available from the publisher and you'll have them in time for Passover.Check out www.jrf.org."

Refreshing new Haggadah
This Haggadah has wonderful, contemporary discussions and presentations.The illustrations are beautiful.

The Best to Date
I have conducted sedorim (seders) for over 30 years and have used five different haggadot. This is the BEST! It explains, offers excellent commentary, provides choices in the kind of seder one might have, as well as providing frameworks for designing your own. I have used it for 2 years now and get rave reviews from the people who attend my sedorim.

The cd of the music of Pesach which is available, is a favorite as we prepare our home for the holiday.

It sure beats "Manishewitz".

This will get you out of a rut
Seders too often fall into a routine, with everyone slogging through the Hagaddah by rote.This is a lively, thought-provoking Hagaddah that will broaden and deepen your appreciation of Passover.It certainly has for my family. ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from Midstream, published by Theodor Herzl Foundation on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 4736 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Attempting the impossible: eliminating election from the Jewish liturgy.
Author: Joel S. Kaminsky
Publication: Midstream (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Theodor Herzl Foundation
Volume: 51Issue: 1Page: 23(5)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Book Description
A Guide to Jewish Practice, an excerpt from a long awaited guide to Jewish living is now available in an expanded second edition from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Press. Written by Rabbid David A. Teutsch, A Guide to Jewish Practice includes an essay placing the current publication in the tradition of Reconstructionist thought, a list defining the Jewish values that guide Reconstructionist decision-making, and a section applying those values to kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws including commentary by 17 Reconstructionist rabbis and scholars whose views span the breadth of positions advocated within the Reconstructionist movement with regard to personal and communal practice and observance. A new appendix includes an essay by the author on "Values-Based Decision Making in a Jewish context". Jews who want Judaism to play a major role in their lives today need access to inherited Jewish traditions and rituals, values, and beliefs, Teutsch explains in his introduction.

"This Guide is designed to help Jewish tradition meet Jews where they are, while at the same time helping Jews to be open to the changes and adaptations needed for the renewal of Judaism in our time." ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

more interesting than persuasive
Kaplan (the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism), writing in the 1940s, begins with the assumption that no one can possibly believe in supernatural interference with the world, and then tries to construct a Judaism that works despite this assumption.He defines God not as a supernatural force making history, but as the life force creating goodness (more or less) and argues that Jews should remain Jews because they are already within the Jewish tradition, and that this tradition therefore can best educate them on how to behave rightly and form a common culture -- as an acquaintance one said to me (in an entirely different context) "you dance with the one that brung you."I certainly see his point.

However, his brusque dismissal of supernatural religion doesn't make as much sense to me in 2002 as it might have made to people half a century ago, when religious fundamentalism seemed to be dying and the liberal optimism of the 19th and early 20th century had not yet been completely crushed by crime at home and totalitarianism abroad.So to me, Kaplan's theory is more a period piece than a persuasive argument. ... Read more