The emergence of havurot and similar forms of Jewish community -- hands-on, participatory, intimate, and deeply engaged in the progressive political energies of the period from 1967 to 1975.

The Freedom Seder

Arthur Waskow
Micah Press, 1969

A new haggadah for Passover.


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Godwrestling


Arthur Waskow
Schocken Books, 1978

Looks at the changing faces of Torah as renewal communities wrestle and dance with it. It includes a theology of human and Jewish history and of why the movement for Jewish renewal has appeared at this historical moment, and addresses the nature and future of the the State of Israel, the meaning of the Holocaust, applying the Jubilee in high-tech society, understanding and dealing with the present environmental crisis, prayer forms that energe from new ways of connecting with God, and other crucial tikkun-olam concerns.


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Godwrestling - Round 2: Ancient Wisdom, Future Paths


Arthur Waskow
Jewish Lights Publishing, 1996

Looks at the changing faces of Torah as renewal communities wrestle and dance with it. It includes a theology of human and Jewish history and of why the movement for Jewish renewal has appeared at this historical moment, and addresses the nature and future of the the State of Israel, the meaning of the Holocaust, applying the Jubilee in high-tech society, understanding and dealing with the present environmental crisis, prayer forms that energe from new ways of connecting with God, and other crucial tikkun-olam concerns.

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Jewish Renewal

Michael Lerner
Putnam, 1994

Lerner's book is especially creative when it focuses on the important aspects of Jewish renewal that have to do with issues of public policy, psychological transformation, and tikkun olam. Beginning from a psychologically rooted analysis of the God of love and why the Bible sometimes portrays God as cruel, the book moves into a political analysis of modern malaise and how to draw on religious and spiritual practice to heal society. No one who seeks to renew Judaism should ignore this and Lerner's other work, though its title should not be misunderstood as a claim to be laying out the definitive statement of what Jewish renewal is.

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He, She, and It

Marge Piercy
Knopf, 1991

A novel set in mid-21st century, with a vision of a free Jewish-renewal community, free humans and a free android/golem, in a sea of corporate feudalism and global scorching -- all intertwined with a retelling through a woman's eyes of the story of the Golem of Prague. Delightful and powerful as a novel, deeply thoughtful about tikkun olam, and an "embodied" theo/anthropology with its roots in Jewish renewal.


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