New Project: The Road Not Taken? Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodox Judaism

Edited by Adam Ferziger (Bar Ilan University), Steven Bayme (American Jewish Committee), and Miri Freud-Kandel (Oxford University)

In the Summer of 2014, a group of sixteen scholars convened in Oxford for “Modern Orthodoxy and the Road Not Taken: A Critical Exploration of Questions Arising from the Thought of Rabbi Dr. Irving ‘Yitz’ Greenberg,”  In this volume, the scholars publish versions of the papers they presented.

Greenberg is an influential theologian who has had a wide-ranging career as a rabbi, historian, activist, author, and leader of several major Jewish organizations. He is a revolutionary thinker on an array of issues including the Jewish people’s encounter with the challenge of modernity; confronting the Holocaust as an historical transforming event; the creation of Israel as the Jewish assumption of power, and the beginning of a third era in Jewish history; and the importance of Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Contributors: Alan Brill, Arye Edrei, Adam Ferziger, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Samuel Heilman, Alan Jotkowitz, Miri Freud Kandel, Steven Katz, Rabbi Darren Kleinberg, Tamar Ross, Marc Shapiro, Jack Wertheimer