JST 532/232 - Modern Jewish Thought
This course will study major thinkers and controversial issues in 20th and 21st century Jewish thought. The course will look at texts by thinkers such as Martin Buber, Mordecai Kaplan, Judith Plaskow, and others, and study issues such as Jewish centrism and extremism, pluralism, social justice and the Prophets, ritual and commandment, feminism and gender, and Zionism and Israel.