David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale, is the author of The Muse in the Machine, Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion, Judaism: A Way of Being, and The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness, just released by Liveright/Norton.
It should focus on the message and influence of Judaism’s core texts and beliefs—not on the sentimentality and kitsch that too many Jews associate with Judaism today.
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