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"This is a loving, sophisticated, illuminating, outstanding depiction of a brilliant intellectual/spiritual/moral leader who deserves just such a treatment. This book will serve as testimony and inspiration for the new generation... a tour de force articulation of a truly great life." - Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
A comprehensive biography about the life and work of Rabbi Harold Shulweis who was essential in the renewal of Jewish life in post-war America.
Harold Schulweis was a dominant figure in the renewal of Jewish life in the post-war generation of American Jewry. Widely regarded as the most successful and influential pulpit rabbi of his generation, he shaped an extraordinary career as pulpit rabbi, theologian, public intellectual, and communal leader. His innovations in synagogue practice reshaped congregations across the continent introducing synagogue-based havurot, "para-rabbinics" and para-professional counseling programs, outreach to alienated Jews and "unchurched" Christians, opening the traditional synagogue to gay and lesbian Jews and their families, and welcoming families of children with special needs. With Leonard Fein, Schulweis founded Mazon, the Jewish communal response to hunger. He launched The Foundation for the Righteous - recognizing Christians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust - an effort chronicled on the CBS news program "60 Minutes." In the closing years of his career, he initiated the Jewish World Watch - a communal response to the incidence of genocide worldwide.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: The American Jewish Experience
Chapter 1 The American Rabbi, a Brief History
1.1 The First American Rabbis
1.2 The Golden Age of the American Rabbinate, 1918-1950
1.3 The New Rabbinate, the New Synagogue,
the New Judaism
1.4 Zionism and Power
1.5 Political Power
1.6 The Dynamic Rabbinate
Chapter 2 Three Languages, Three Voices
2.1 Identity: Speaking Three Languages
2.2 Formation
2.3 Family
2.4 Oakland, California, 1952-1970
The Theological Voice
The Prophetic Voice
The Voice of Community Building
New Narratives
2.5 Transition
Chapter 3 Encino, 1970
3.1 The Resurgence of Los Angeles Jewry
3.2 A Congregation of Newcomers
3.3 The Suburban Paradise
3.4 Hear Me Roar
3.5 Is That All There Is?
3.6 Encino Jews
Part Two: Three Rabbinic Voices
Chapter 4 The Theological Voice
4.1 The Rabbi as Theologian
4.2 The Theologian as Rabbi
4.3 The Failure of Theodicy
Classical Metaphysical Theologies:
Aquinas and Maimonides
Hartshorne's Process Theology
Personalist Theologies: Buber and Barth
The Eternal Question—Why Me?
4.4 Predicate Theology
Sources
Answering Evil
Revelation
Oneness
Prayer
Godliness or Goodness?
I Seek a God I Can't Believe In
4.5 Two Names for God
4.6 God and the Holocaust
Chapter 5 The Prophetic Voice
5.1 The Rabbi as Prophet
5.2 The 1970s: The Holocaust Dybbuk
5.3 The 1980s: Out of the Cave
5.4 The 1990s: The Stenosis of Halachah
5.5 2000: The Duty to Obey, the Duty to Disobey
Chapter 6 The Voice of Community Building
6.1 The Psychological Jew
6.2 Mediating Structures: The Synagogue Havurah
6.3 Mediating Structures: Para-Rabbinics
6.4 Poetry
6.5 Reinventing the Rabbinate
6.6 Shaping New Narratives
Epilogue
A Note on Sources
Works Cited
