To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People - Paperback

by Noah Feldman (Author)

A New York Times Bestseller

A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.

What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship to God, to Israel, and to each other--and live their lives accordingly?

Author Biography

Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law and chair of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, where he is also the founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law. A leading public intellectual, he is a contributing writer for Bloomberg Opinion and the author of ten books, including Divided by God and The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State.