Wayne Allen – författare

2022 Top Five Reference Book from Academy of Parish Clergy The most comprehensive book on the topic, Thinking about Good and Evil traces the most salient Jewish ideas about why innocent people seem to suffer, why evil individuals seem to prosper, and God’s role in such matters of (in)justice, from antiquity to the present.Starting with the Bible and Apocrypha, Rabbi Wayne Allen takes us through the Talmud; medieval Jewish philosophers and Jewish mystical sources; the Ba’al Shem Tov and his disciples; early modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Luzzatto; and, finally, modern thinkers such as Cohen, Buber, Kaplan, and Plaskow. Each chapter analyzes individual thinkers’ arguments and synthesizes their collective ideas on the nature of good and evil and questions of justice. Allen also exposes vastly divergent Jewish thinking about the Holocaust: traditionalist (e.g., Ehrenreich), revisionist (e.g., Rubenstein, Jonas), and deflective (e.g., Soloveitchik, Wiesel).Rabbi Allen’s engaging, accessible volume illuminates well-known, obscure, and novel Jewish solutions to the problem of good and evil.

A Reader on Race & Ethnic Relations: Harmonizing Indigenous and Immigrant Voices is a unique academic undertaking in that it is not the standard academic reader that relies solely on so-called academic "experts." And while it does include contributors with expertise in their fields, it is also an attempt to include the voices of a diverse population of scholars— professors, junior faculty, and students—who all have a stake in the project of studying the plethora of issues surrounding the topics of race and ethnicity in the larger world.The articles in this work are intended to challenge and stimulate the reader to ask questions, both of themselves and of each other, but also of our society, our nation, and our world. A Reader on Race & Ethnic Relations: Harmonizing Indigenous and Immigrant Voices is a unique academic undertaking in that it is not the standard academic reader that relies solely on so-called academic "experts." And while it does include contributors with expertise in their fields, it is also an attempt to include the voices of a diverse population of scholars— professors, junior faculty, and students—who all have a stake in the project of studying the plethora of issues surrounding the topics of race and ethnicity in the larger world.The articles in this work are intended to challenge and stimulate the reader to ask questions, both of themselves and of each other, but also of our society, our nation, and our world.