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We Jews: Who Are We and What Should We Do?
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Yehuda Hanegbi (Translated by), Rebecca Toueg (Translated by)
ISBN: 978-0-7879-7915-7
Hardcover
224 pages
March 2005
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FOREWORD BY ARTHUR KURZWEIL.

AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION.

I. Are We Actors with Masks?

Our Ability to Assimilate Has Been Too Effective for Our Own Good.

II. Are We Shattered into Pieces?

Despite What Anti-Semites Have Said, Our Infighting and Historical Circumstances Have Never Allowed Unity nor a Unified Leadership.

III. Are We a Nation or a Religion?

Our People Are Not a Religion, nor a Nation, nor an Ethnic Group, nor a Race.

IV. Do We Have Our Own Set of Character Traits?

Yes, But Sometimes We Use Them and Sometimes We Abuse Them.

V. Is Money Our God?

The Slander, Lies, and Misunderstandings Regarding Jews and Money.

VI. Why Do We Want to Save the World?

Exploring the Jewish Messiah Complex.

VII. Are We Excessively Warm or Excessively Cold?

The Seemingly Contradictory Phenomena of Jewish Emotionalism and Intellectualism.

VIII. Why Are Our People Involved in Idolatry?

Our Theocentric Nature and Our Temptation to Create and Worship Idols.

IX. What Is Our Role in the World?

Our “Chosen” Status Demands That We Be the Priests to the World.

X. How Does Our Jewishness Influence Our Thinking Process?

Marx, Freud, Einstein, and the Jewish Search for Unifying Principles.

XI. How Does Anti-Semitism Affect Other People?

The Correlation Between a Country’s Health and How Well It Treats Its Jews.

XII. What Will Become of the Jewish People?

THE AUTHOR.

THE EDITOR.

INDEX.

 
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