This study examines the capacity of traditional Judaism to renew itself in response to the challenge of modernity.
PrefaceIntroduction1Pt. 1Prologue71Conceptual and historical background9Pt. 2The Parent Orthodox Modernizing Movements292Torah-im-Derekh Eretz313Religious Zionism46Pt. 3The Religious Kibbutz Movement674The foundations of the Religious Kibbutz Movement695Charisma and rationalization816The halakhic-socialist collective1017The confrontation between halakhah and external reality1158Between heteronomous and autonomous authority141Afterword158Appendix A The Religious Kibbutz Federation settlements160Appendix B About the religious kibbutz members quoted in this book161Appendix C Ideological periodicals referred to in book164Notes165Index194