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Answering the World: Core Jewish Values in the 21st Century
Paperback
Publisher Price: $35.00
Publisher: Maurice Pitchon
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Answering the World: Core Jewish Values in the 21st Century is a timely and deeply personal exploration of Judaism as a living moral civilization-one that trains human beings to remain responsible in a world shaped by technological acceleration, institutional fragmentation, and growing moral confusion.
Drawing on biblical sources, rabbinic wisdom, and modern Jewish thought, Moshe Pitchon argues that Judaism is not primarily a system of beliefs, rituals, or identity markers. It is a discipline of responsibility: a tradition that forms conscience, demands accountability, and insists on human dignity even under conditions that encourage moral outsourcing.
Confronting the widening disconnect many young Jews experience from Judaism's core values-and their vulnerability to professionally organized distortion that presents hostility toward Jews and Israel as moral insight-Pitchon reframes Jewish education as an urgent civilizational task. He explores how Judaism holds together justice and compassion, truth and repair, individual agency and communal obligation, offering readers a framework for discerning when peace requires reconciliation and when responsibility demands decisive action.
Written for Jews and non-Jews alike, this is not a nostalgic defense of tradition. It is a contemporary meditation on moral agency in an age when responsibility is increasingly diffused across systems and technologies. Through accessible yet rigorous reflection, Answering the World invites readers to rediscover Judaism's enduring contribution: a grammar of obligation capable of restoring clarity, courage, and coherence to human life.
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