Ideas Cafe: How Much Can Judaism Change and Still Be Authentic? March 6, 2007

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How Much Can Judaism Change and Still Be Authentic?
Moderated by Rabbi Jill Jacobs

From iPods to the internet to Direct TV, it has been said that the past ten years have seen more technological change than the previous several decades. Judaism, too, is changing fast-- in the past thirty years, we have seen the first ordinations of women and of gay and lesbian rabbis; dozens of liturgical changes; the growth of Jewish meditation, yoga, and chanting; and attempts to integrate Judaism with other faith traditions. A Talmudic Rabbi visiting twenty-first century America might not even recognize today's Judaism. All of this begs the question: how much can Judaism change and still feel the same?

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