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Introduction / Susannah Heschel -- To Be a Jew: What Is It? -- The Moment at Sinai -- Existence and Celebration -- Hasid

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Table of contents :
Introduction / Susannah Heschel --
To Be a Jew: What Is It? --
The Moment at Sinai --
Existence and Celebration --
Hasidism as a New Approach to Torah --
Israel as Memory --
We Cannot Force People to Believe --
A Time for Renewal --
Pikuach Neshama: To Save a Soul --
The Meaning of Repentance --
On the Day of Hate --
No Time for Neutrality --
Symbolism and Jewish Faith --
The Spirit of Jewish Prayer --
Toward an Understanding of Halacha --
Yom Kippur --
Teaching Religion to American Jews --
Jewish Theology --
The Mystical Element in Judaism --
A Preface to an Understanding of Revelation --
God, Torah, and Israel --
The Meaning of This War (World War II) --
The Plight of Russian Jews --
The Moral Dilemma of the Space Age --
Required: A Moral Ombudsman --
The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement --
In Search of Exaltation --
A Prayer for Peace --
No Religion Is an Island --
Choose Life! --
On Prayer --
The God of Israel and Christian Renewal --
What Ecumenism Is.

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