Beyond Yiddishkeit: The Struggle for Jewish Identity in a Reform Synagogue

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Index Ashkenazim, 19, 137 n. 7 Baal teshuva, 137 n. 8 BarIBat mitzva, defined, 141 Bell, 0., 91 Berger, P. L., 130 Bima, 66; defined, 141 Blau, J. L., 18, 22 Bluhm, W T., 61 Borowitz, Eugene, 36, 39 Buber, Martin, 99, 133 "Centenary Perspective:' 35, 36-37, 126 Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), 35, 38 Chassidism, 137 n. 4 Chaverim, the, 85-87, 88, 91-92, 93-95, 127 Chavura: defined, 141 Chazzan, 75 Cheder: defined, 141 Columbus Platform, 35, 36-37, 38-39 Community: the construction of, 99-110; holy, 11; and identity, 97-117; and modernity, 115; Temple Shalom as, 110-117; Temple Shalom's differentiation from the Jewish, 101-105; and the Temple Shalom family, 100-101 Conservative movement, 17, 21 Cuddihy, ]. M., 89, 108, 115 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 15 Diaspora, the, 10, 13, 33; defined, 141 Douglas, J., 110 Douglas, Mary, 89, 90 Ducey, M. H., 73 Durkheim, E., 17,66,91, 132 Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, The, 66 Ethnohistory, Jewish, 13 European Emancipation, the, 10 French Revolution, the, 15 Gates ofMitzvah: A Guide to the Jewish Life Cycle, 38 Gates ofPrayer, 38, 69, 138 n. 2 Gates of the House, 38 Gates of the Seasons: A Guide to the Jewish Year, 38 Gusfield, J. R., 62 Halacha, 9, 11, 15; defined, 141 Haskala, 14, 17; defined, 141 Hebrew Union College, 32, 35 Hoffman, L. A., 65-66, 79 Holocaust, the Nazi, 21, 35 Identity. See Jewish identity. Ideology: defined, 138 n. 1; and identity of Temple Shalom, 41-64; and liberalism, 41-51; and social activism, 51-52 Individualism, and universalism, 121-126 Jewish Emancipation, 15, 17 Jewish ethnohistory, 13 155 156 INDEX Jewish identity: and the American experience, 19-23; and community, 97-117; contemporary, 1-3; and ideology, 41-64; and modernity, 119; and the move to modernity, 14-19; and ritual, 65-95; the sacralization of, 119-121; of Temple Shalom, 6, 135 n. 2; and traditional Jewish society, 10-14; the transformation of, 9-25; and uniqueness, 99-110, 139 n. 2 See also Ideology. Jewish society: the dissolution of traditional, 14-16; traditional, 10-14 Jewish tradition, 52-56 Jewish Weltanschauung, 18 Kanter, R. M., 100, 111 KehilIa, the, 11, 12-13; defined, 141; See also Community. Kehillot, the, 15 Kelley, D. M., 117 Kroeber, A. L., 105-106 Liberal ethic, the: and construction of a new ethic, 130-133; and rationality , 126-128; and secularism, 128130 ; and universalism and individualism , 121-126 Liberalism, 7,41-51; and the Emancipation , 61; and the Enlightenment , 61; and the liberal ethic, 121-130; and the Reform movement, 62-63; and Soviet Jews, 50; and the Ten Commandments, 49 Maskil: defined, 141 maskilim, 14 Mendelssohn, Moses, 14, 15 Menora, 56, 66; defined, 141 Messianic idea, the, 32-33 Mihaly, E., 75 Minyan service, 34 Modern Orthodoxy, 17 "Modernists;' 24 Modernity: tradition and, 23-25, 55-56; the move to, 14-19 Niebuhr, H. Richard, 3-4 Novak, M., 123 O'Dea, T. E, 88, 92-93 Oneg Shabbat, 28, 137 n. 1; defined, 141-142 Patai, R., 13 Pentateuch, the, 10, 14 Pittsburgh Conference of 1885, the Reform platform at the, 32 Pittsburgh Platform, the, 32, 35 Prayerbook, the, 68-73 "Protestant Etiquette;' 108 Protestantism, and the Reform movement, 31-32 Rabbi Alexander Schindler, 128 Rationality, 126-128 Reconstructionism, 21 Reform Judaism. See Reform movement, the. Reform Movement, the: in America, 21,31-39; and the "Centenary Perspective;' 35, 36-37; and the Columbus Platform, 35, 36-37, 38-39; and Germany, 16, 19; and the liberal ethic, 121-130; and Liberalism, 62-63; and the Messianic idea, 32-33; and modern Orthodoxy, 17; and the Pittsburgh Platform, 32, 35; and rationality, 127; and secularism, 128-130; and Temple Shalom, 31-39, 60, 61; and Issac M. Wise, 31-32; and Zionism, 34, 35 Reiff, Philip, 117 Rise ofDavid Levinsky, The, 20 Ritual: analysis of, 87-95; the, context of Temple Shalom, 66-68; and the Chaverim service, 85-87, 88, 91-92, 93-95; and identity, 65-95; the normative , 73-84, 88, 89; personal responses, 76-84; and the rabbis, 65, 139 n. 1; spatial and behavioral messages, 73-76; and symbols, Index 157 90-91, 92; and the Torah, 90, 91; and the yarmulke, 91 Ruttman, H. S., 37-38 Sabbath, the: and God-language, 78-79; and...