The Modern Meaning of Judaism / Robert Gordis review:
"This book offers a comprehensive view of contemporary Jewish belief and practice....What emerges is a strong sense of the underlying unity that makes all schools of Jewish thought integral parts of the same living tradition.
Each theme in this book is treated with lucidity, forthrightness and balance. This is true of such fundamental aspects of Judaism as the centrality of Torah, ethics and ritual, the concept of The Chosen People, revelation, immortality and the indispensability of the land of Israel for a living Judaism...
The reader will find here an excellent presentation of Judaism as a worldview dedicated to the ideals of justice, freedom and peace and as a way of life embodied in a living community-the mother-religion of Western civilisation..."
