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Judaism’s Promise; Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W. Itzkoff’s well-received three-book series; Who Are the Jews? Judaism’s Promise; confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries allowing it and its people a path of leadership into the modern world. It takes the writings of the Torah; Holy Scriptures; and Talmud seriously as exemplars of the human search for civilizational and moral intellectuality. The book’s basic concern is with the withering of Judaism as a force in contemporary Western civilization. Sadly millions of Jews have left the faith. Others venture forth only hesitantly into a synagogue; now a bastion of fossilized ritual and conspicuous consumption. These millions needed more from the orthodoxy; and this book attempts to show them the way back by giving renewed life to the heritages of Judaism; and; consequently; to its meaning for the modern world. Judaism’s Promise argues for a return to the synagogue’s originating Hellenistic commitment «to come together» in intellectual and moral study. As Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan argued; Judaism must once more become in the 20–21st century the civilization that it once represented to the wider world; and not a fossilized ceremonialism.