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Publication Date: July 2009
Publisher: National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (U.S.)
Author(s): David Kraemer
Research Area: Culture and religion
Keywords: Ethics; Values; Jewish Text
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author discusses how the tension between valuing the individual and valuing the community becomes an eternal dialectic within the Jewish tradition, admitting no resolution, and confronts us with a continual ethical challenge.