In this cutting-edge study, Michael Rosenak provides a new understanding of the challenges inherent in teaching Judaism today. His ground-breaking theories are based on close examination of religious experience in individual’s lives, consulting sources from all Jewish denominations, from Israel and the Diaspora, and from the non-Jewish world. Rosenak uses his research and a wealth of academic theories to formulate and present proposals for an honest, new approach to teaching religion in our contemporary, secular world.

Michael Rosenak is Mandel Professor of Jewish Education, Emeritus, at the Hebrew University and is head of the Department of Education and Jewish Education at the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows Program. He has published works in Jewish educational thought, particularly its theological aspects. Rosenak was the Samuel Rothberg Prize Laureate of the Hebrew University for 2001. He developed the Jewish Values Curriculum at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education, which has been used in Jewish schools throughout the world.

Winner of the Jewish Book Prize in 1989