Table of Contents

Travelling Through the Night Albert Friedlander. Leo Baeck and Reconciliation Harry M. Jacobi. Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar and Altruism During the Holocaust Frank Dabba Smith. Jewishly Responsible Investment Mark Goldsmith. Is there a Specific Jewish Ethic? Louis Jacobs. Leopold Stein, a Liberal 'Master of Prayer' Eric Friedland. Baruch and Beracha: Blessing in Judaism Walter Homolka. The Challenge of Genetic Research Margaret Jacobi. Judaism and Today's Asylum Seekers Julia Neuberger. Liberal Judaism and Mixed Marriage Danny Rich. Feminist Bible Interpretation Sybil Sheridan. Compelling Commitments Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah. A Religion for the Future Sidney Brichto. Immortality and Resurrection: Maimonides and the Maimonidean Controversy Alesandra Wright. On the Impossibility of Prophecy: A Study of Isaiah 6 Jonathan Magonet. Christ Through Jewish Eyes Mark L. Solomon. Moses Montefiore and Jews, Christians and Muslims Andrew Goldstein. Religion, Civil Society and Interfaith Endeavour Anthony Harvey. Interfaith Dialogue Charles Middleburgh. Perceptions of the Other: Lessons from Jewish-Christian Dialogue Edward Kessler.

About the Author

Edward Kessler is founding director of the Cambridge Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. He has also written An English Jew: The Life and Writings of Claude Montefiore, and has co-edited two books on Jewish-Christian Relations, Jews and Christians in Conversation: Crossing Cultures and Generations and Themes in Jewish-Christian Relations. Kessler is a leading thinker on contemporary Judaism and Jewish-Christian relations and writes for the Independent and the Irish Times as well as the Tablet, the Church Times and the Jewish Chronicle. Rabbi David J. Goldberg is Rabbi Emeritus of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue. His numerous writings include The Jewish People: Their History and Their Religion (co-authored with John Rayner, London: Viking-Penguin, 1987), and To the Promised Land: A History of Zionist Thought from its Origins to the Modern State of Israel (London, Penguin 1996).