Open Minded Torah: Of Irony, Fundamentalism and Love
Prologue: Velvel,
Making Exceptions
Do it Again Denzel: Fantasy and Second Chances
Caught in the Act: Torah and Desire
Swaying Towards Perfection: Torah, Worldliness and Perversion
The Big Game: Baseball, John Milton and Making Choices
Just Dreamin’: The Sages and the Interpretation of Dreams
Isaac’s Bad Rap
Identity is Out
Writing an Inspirational Story
Eros and Translation
Of Rabbis and Rotting Meat
Jacob’s Scar: Wounding and Identity
Cheeseburger: Torah, Swine and Desire
Torah and the Pleasure Principle
II. Community and Dispute
Oedipus in a Kippa
Open Minded Torah I: Judaism and Fundamentalism
Irony Uber Alles: An Episcopal Passover
The Dangers of Magic: Of Parenting and Idolatry
From Sinai to the Uzi: New and Old Zionisms
The Poetry of the World: God’s Place
Stepping Up
Open Minded Torah II: Judaism and Postmodernism
Lost and Found
Prayer and the People: A New Siddur
A Religion for Adults?
Modernity is Hell: Korach and Hobbes
Don’t Take Away My Mitzva!
Of Fundamentalists, Rabbis and Irony
Fear and Loathing in
Open Minded Torah III: Between Fundamentalism and Postmodernism
III. Time and Memory
Carpe Diem, Dude
The Antidote for Religion: Fear of God
Speech in Exile and the Voice of the Shofar
Back to the Future: Yom Kippur and Creative Repentance
Shades of Faith: My Sukka is Not Insured by AIG
A Special Conversation: Freud, the Maharal and Shabbos
Lighting Up: The Beauty of Hanuka
Whose Letter is it Anyway: Esther, Aristotle and the Art of Letter Writing
Cosmic Consciousness: The Beatles, Passover and the Power of Storytelling
Why I Gave Up Biblical Criticism and Just Learned to Love
Trauma’s Legacy: On Israel’s Memorial Day
Faceless: the Ninth of Av
Epilogue, Shmuel,
