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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce that Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate by Meir Persoff is now available. We work with all library suppliers and wholesalers. If you are interested in ordering directly, please feel free to contact us at sa...@academicstudiespress.com and mention that you participate in Hasafran listserv. We look forward to hearing from you! Another Way, Another Time: Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate By Meir Persoff Introduction by Geoffrey Alderman ISBN 978-1-934843-90-1 (cloth) $65.00 / £54.50 ISBN 978-1-936235-10-0 (paper) $32.00 / £26.99 450 pp., March 2010 Series: Judaism and Jewish Life Topic Area(s): European Jewish History, Political Science Bibliographic Data: 1.Judaism -21st Century. 2. Sacks, Jonathan, 1948-. 3. British Chief Rabbinate-History. 4. Religious pluralism-- Judaism. 5. Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. 6. Orthodox Judaism -- Relations -- Nontraditional Jews. I. Title. Reading Level: Academic / General Reader Description: British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks now Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London launched his tenure of office in 1991 with the aim of an inclusivist Decade of Jewish Renewal. Within a few years, fulfilling his installation prediction that 'I will have failures, but I will try again, another way, another time,' he was attracting calls, from opponents and supporters, for his resignation and the abolition of his office. Reviewing Sacks' early writings and pronouncements on the theme of inclusivism, Another Way, Another Time demonstrates how, repeatedly, the Chief Rabbi said 'irreconcilable things to different audiences' and how, in the process, he induced his kingmaker and foremost patron, Lord (Stanley) Kalms, to declare of Anglo-Jewry: 'We are in a time warp, and fast becoming an irrelevance in terms of world Jewry.' Citing support from a variety of sources, this study contends that the Chief Rabbinate has indeed reached the end of the road and explores other paths to the leadership of a pluralistic and, ideally, inclusivist community. About the Author: Now a freelance writer and editor, Meir Persoff edited the London Jewish Chronicle's news, features, arts, Judaism, letters and obituaries sections during a distinguished 40-year career on the paper. He has written extensively on Jewish topics notably Jewish art and Judaica and served on the Jewish Book Council and as president of the Israel-Judaica Philatelic Society. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he holds a London University MA (with distinction) in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, having specialised in modern Jewish history and the history of anti-Semitism, and earned his PhD from Middlesex University, London, for his research into the British Chief Rabbinate's relationship with the non-Orthodox movements. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Middlesex Commission Area in 2001. Reviews: "[Persoff] has been able to deploy his material against the background of an extensive knowledge of the inner world of British Jewry, gathered over a lifetime reporting and commenting upon it without fear and without favour. Another Way, Another Time will certainly not be the last word on Jonathan Sacks. But all who write on this subject hereafter will need to measure their efforts against the yardstick Dr Persoff has fashioned, and which he now sets before us." Geoffrey Alderman, Michael Gross Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Buckingham "Persoff allows the Chief Rabbis, their supporters and their opponents to speak for themselves, incorporating into his narrative generous excerpts from their correspondence, sermons, broadsides and disputations. The central place he assigns to this material, much of which is reproduced here for the rst time, invites us to meet the controversialists face-to-face, on their own terms, without the interpretive baggage of today's religious divisions. This invitation to return to the sources acts as a cautionary reminder that the past has an integrity of its own and that neither Orthodoxy nor Reform is a monolithic, unchanging phenomenon, immune to the in uence of time and place." Todd M. Endelman, William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Michigan (from the Introduction to Faith Against Reason: Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate, 18401990) Table of Contents: Foreword, by Geoffrey Alderman xi Preface xv 1. With Open Arms 1 2. Beyond the Limits 33 3. Leading by Example 45 4. The Culture of Contempt 67 5. The Search for Survival 91 6. The Stanmore Accords 125 Interlude. From First to Second 145 7. The Indignity of Difference 167 8. The Crucible of Judaism 187 9. The Dynamic of Renewal 221 10. Rites and Wrongs 237 11. The Stanmore Discords 257 12. The Mirage of Unity 281 13. 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