WES Café Conversations with Carole Kessner

Today’s media offers an embarrassment of riches on Jewish ideas, Jewish politics, Jewish arts, Jewish loyalties, and the like. These essays, articles, reports, and reviews are often provocative or confusing, and cry out for discussion among intelligent, committed Jews. In this monthly conversation (not a class) led by Carole Kessner we’ll discuss a contemporary piece that can be accessed online or picked up at the synagogue. The first session will cover a review essay on Arthur Green’s Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition, written by Daniel Landes and titled "Hidden Master". It appeared in the Jewish Review of Books (Number 3, Fall 2010), and is followed by an exchange of letters between Green and Landes in the next issue (Number 4, Winter 2011). Green, once president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, is now rector of the non-denominational Hebrew College Rabbinical School. Landes is director and rosh yeshiva at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. The review is accessible here: http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/publications/detail/hidden-master and the letters here: http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/publications/detail/letters-3

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