Renewing the Covenant

Eugene B. Borowitz

1991

The Dialectic of Living in Covenant

I have been critical of the modern notions of the solitary self and self-validating universalism in the hope of permitting the consciousness of our particularity to make itself felt and make its proper claim on our selfhood. […] How shall we live with the conflicts that arise between the Jewish self and the…

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Eugene B. Borowitz

1924–2016

Eugene B. Borowitz grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and was ordained as a rabbi by Hebrew Union College. He was a professor of education and Jewish religious thought at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. The founding editor of Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, Borowitz was a recipient of the National Jewish Book Award and the Eisendrath Prize for his contributions to Reform Judaism.

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