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Striving to Be Human: Jewish Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Challenges de Rabbi Leah Cohen Tenenbaum DMin, BCC-PCHAC

Striving to Be Human: Jewish Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Challenges

Editat de Rabbi Leah Cohen Tenenbaum DMin, BCC-PCHAC, Rabbi Douglas Kohn Cuvânt înainte de Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld
en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2025
In his clarion call for ethical behavior, Rabbi Hillel tells us, “In a place where there is no humanity, strive to be human.” But what exactly does it mean to be human, especially in an age of rapid transformation? Striving to Be Human: Jewish Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Challenges confronts this question with boldness, hope, and a foundation of Jewish wisdom. The volume begins with “Challenges from Within Us,” addressing such topics as moral justice, belonging, queer theology, and good and evil. In part two, “Challenges from Beyond Us,” the authors delve into artificial intelligence, robotics, reproductive technologies, and the animal-human relationship. The result is a profound conversation about Jewish values and human dignity in our evolving landscape.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780881236682
ISBN-10: 0881236683
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Central Conference of American Rabbis
Colecția Reform Judaism Publishing

Recenzii

This provocative and informative book addresses the “heart,” “limbs,” and “skin” of the question of humanity. The heart of the matter touches upon the essence of being human, as elusive as it is fundamental. The limbs reach out to the other, relating to the realm of the interhuman. The skin represents humanity’s boundaries, explored in the encounter with the non- and post-human. Authored by an impressive array of rabbi-practitioners and rabbi-academics, the chapters make an important contribution to a question of huge ethical, social, and spiritual significance.
—Rabbi Michael Marmur, PhD, Professor of Jewish Theology, Hebrew Union College, and author of Living The Letters: An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought

This timely collection of thoughtful reflections by Reform rabbis invites readers to examine the meaning of being human when the future of humanity is challenged by the prevalence of humanmade technology, and when the future of democracy is threatened by the refusal to honor intrinsic human dignity and diversity. Rabbis, educators, and congregants will find this anthology a source of inspiration and an invitation for further reflections.
—Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, PhD, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, Arizona State University, and coeditor of Perfecting Human Futures: Transhuman Visions and Technological Imaginations

One of the most fundamental inquiries in Jewish philosophy is what makes humans different from animals, on the one hand, and from angels, on the other. In our era of rapid change, Striving to Be Human masterfully helps us return to such questions to not only reclaim our basic humanity but to consider how to actualize the potential of flourishing humanity! This book will guide us toward moral and spiritual insights that can challenge and support our theological and ethical journeys ahead.
—Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President and Dean, Valley Beit Midrash, and author of Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary

At a time of unprecedented challenges to humanity, this volume offers Jewish wisdom on the core question: What does it mean to be human? A thoughtful, readable, and well-produced guide to conundrums as ancient as Adam and Eve and as recent as the development of artificial intelligence.
—Jonathan D. Sarna, PhD, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University, and author of American Judaism: A History

Tenenbaum and Kohn edit an impressive anthology of essays that address contemporary ethical challenges through Jewish perspectives. ... A thoughtful and accessible compilation that provides religious perspectives on many contemporary ethical issues.
-- Kirkus Reviews

Notă biografică

Rabbi Leah Cohen Tenenbaum, DMin, BCC-PCHAC (HUC-JIR 2000), serves as the inpatient palliative care chaplain and as a member of the Ethics Committee at Yale New Haven Hospital. She is a faculty member of FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) and has served on the CCAR Board of Trustees, the CCAR National Ethics Taskforce, and currently the CCAR Press Council. She has written chapters for The Sacred Struggle: Jewish Responses to Trauma (CCAR Press, 2025) and Fragile Dialogue: New Voices of Liberal Zionism (CCAR Press, 2018) and is the coeditor with Rabbi Douglas Kohn of Striving to Be Human: Jewish Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Challenges. She frequently teaches and presents on spirituality, serious illness, and medical ethics.

Rabbi Douglas Kohn serves Temple Beth Jacob in Newburgh, New York, having previously served congregations in Buffalo, Baltimore, Chicago, and Southern California, and is happily busy in all aspects of congregational and community endeavors. In addition to coediting Striving to Be Human with Rabbi Leah Cohen Tenenbaum, he is the editor of two other volumes, Life, Faith, and Cancer: Jewish Journeys Through Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery (URJ Press, 2008) and Broken Fragments: Jewish Experiences of Alzheimer’s Disease Through Diagnosis, Adaptation, and Moving On (URJ Press, 2012), and has written and spoken widely on the themes of illness, medical ethics, and being human. Rabbi Kohn has served on numerous CCAR, URJ, and communal commissions, committees, and boards, while still savoring time to read, write, and paint, as well as exercise, cook, and travel with his wife, Cindy, and their children and grandchildren.

Cuprins


Foreword
     Rabbanit Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld
Acknowledgments 
Introduction
     Rabbi Douglas Kohn
     and Rabbi Leah Cohen Tenenbaum, DMin, BCC-PCHAC

Part I: Challenges from Within Us
1. Empathy, Power, and Tzedakah: Is Moral Justice at the Core of Humanity? 
     Rabbi Sarah Bassin
2. The Human Question: Choosing Between Good and Evil 
     Rabbi Lucy H. F. Dinner
3. Belonging: You Are Who You Are With 
     Rabbi Jan Katzew, PhD
4. In Memory of the Wayward Son: Meditations in Queer Jewish Theology 
     Rabbi Hilly Haber, PhD
5. The Feeling Being: Was the World Created for My Sake? 
     Rabbi Ellen Lewis

Part II: Challenges from Beyond Us
6. Your Mercies Extend Even to a Bird’s Nest: The Animal-Human Relationship 
     Rabbi Alexandria Shuval-Weiner
7. Moving the Goalposts: Beyond the Beginning and End of Life 
     Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, PhD
8. When Artificiality Collides with Humanity: Can AI Develop a Soul? 
     Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman
9. From Creation to Creator: Humans Making Humans, Humanoids, Cyborgs, and Clones 
     Rabbi Douglas Kohn
10. Medium, Message, and Humanity in the Newest Information Age 
     Rabbi Dan Medwin

Conclusion: Tensions Between the Good and the Perfect
     Rabbi Leah Cohen Tenenbaum, DMin, BCC-PCHAC
Contributors 

Descriere

In his clarion call for ethical behavior, Rabbi Hillel tells us, “In a place where there is no humanity, strive to be human.” But what exactly does it mean to be human, especially in an age of rapid transformation? Striving to Be Human: Jewish Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Challenges confronts this question with boldness, hope, and a foundation of Jewish wisdom.