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The sanctity and infinite worth of every human being is a quintessential Jewish value, grounded in the biblical notion that man is made in the image and likeness of...

The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis by william d. rubinstein routledge, 267 pages, $40.20 There is now a large...

Some time this year the Reform movement will issue its new High Holy Day prayerbook, for the first time putting between hard covers a major liturgical work incorporating “gender-sensitive”...

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by deborah lipstadt free press, 278 pages, $22.95  Assassins of the Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust...

Professor Reinhold Niebuhr: A Mentor to the Twentieth Century by ronald h. stone westminster/john knox press, 284 pages, $21.99 paper Niebuhr and His Age: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Prophetic Role in...

Besides being the quincentenary of Columbus’ voyage, 1992 has also been the centenary of the birth of the American churchman Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971). From the 1930s through the 1950s,...

The Civil War A film by Ken Burns Shown as a PBS television series; also available on nine VHS videocassettes (11 hours). Individual purchases from Time-Life Videos, $180. Institutional...

Jewish Perspectives on Christianity edited by franz a. rothschild crossroad, 363 pages, $29.50 The interfaith dialogue between Christians and Jews has become such a familiar feature of contemporary religious...

The Emergence of Jewish Theology in America by robert g. goldy indiana university press, 149 pages, $25 Judaism was born in the Fertile Crescent when a young Semite, deeply...

Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit by peter bien princeton university press, 318 pages, $29.95  By the time he died in 1957, the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis had established himself...