Cover -- Series Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I First Sermon -- 1 Chapel Sermon -- Part II Inspirations -- 2 Sigmund Freud -- 3 Bertrand Russell's Autobiography -- 4 Looking at Kafka -- 5 The Legacy of MLK -- 6 First Encounter with George (Regas) -- 7 Why the Prophets Are Important -- Part III Faith, Doubt, and Duty -- 8 Handwritten Reflections on Doubt -- 9 Can We Excommunicate God? -- 10 Duty of the Rabbi -- 11 From the Diary of a Leo Baeck Temple Rabbi -- 12 Rabbi Beerman's To-Do List -- 13 Yom Kippur Eve-Vocation of a Rabbi -- 14 Fast between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to Protest Munich and Vietnam -- 15 My Troubles with God -- God's Troubles with Me -- 16 The Beginnings of an Outline for Jews to Consider -- Part IV Social Justice -- 17 The Kindest Use a Knife -- 18 Is There a Relationship between Judaism and Social Justice? -- 19 The Problems of the City: A Jewish Dilemma -- 20 UCLA Teach-In on Vietnam War -- 21 Notes for Symposium on Black Power -- 22 Letter to President Lyndon Johnson -- 23 Rosh Hashanah Eve -- 24 How I Lost the Election in St. Louis -- 25 Invocation for Religious Leaders for McGovern -- 26 Survival in a Nuclear Age -- 27 California People of Faith against the Death Penalty -- 28 Piece on Human Condition Written for the Office of the Americas -- 29 A Vision for a Bewildering Time : Commencement Address at Washington & -- Jefferson College -- 30 Letter to President George W. Bush -- 31 Human Rights Watch -- 32 A Sermon for All Saints -- Part V Israel/Palestine -- 33 Time in Israel, Parts I and II -- 34 CCAR Breira Statement -- 35 Yom Kippur Morning -- 36 Yom Kippur Eve -- 37 Visions of Peace in the Middle East -- 38 A Sermon for Yom Kippur Morning -- 39 Exchange of Letters with Bruce Ramer -- 40 A Sermon for Yom Kippur Morning.

Sayings of Leonard I. Beerman -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Eternal Dissident offers rare insight into one of the most inspiring and controversial Reform rabbis of the twentieth century, Leonard Beerman, who was renowned both for his eloquent and challenging sermons and for his unrelenting commitment to social action. Beerman was a man of powerful word and action--a probing intellectual and stirring orator, as well as a nationally known opponent of McCarthyism, racial injustice, and Israeli policy in the occupied territories. The shared source of Beerman's thought and activism was the moral imperative of the Hebrew prophets, which he believed bestowed upon the Jewish people their role as the "eternal dissident." This volume brings Beerman to life through a selection of his most powerful writings, followed by commentaries from notable scholars, rabbis, and public personalities that speak to the quality and ongoing relevance of Beerman's work.

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