Judaism, July 1st, 2003
I am not the first to link the appearance of remarkable volumes of American Jewish thought and to review them together. Peter Ochs, a trustworthy interpreter of this literature, evaluates Eugene Borowitz's anthology Studies in the Meaning of judaism and Eliezer Berkovits's Essential Essays on Judaism in tandem.1 Ochs calls these collections a superb "framework for American Jewish dialogue."2
Ochs is right to consider Berkovitz the most useiul interpreter of modern Orthodoxy (since "the Rav" is an exception to all rules) who has, like Borowitz from the other shore, been able to "show us a way ...
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