This cutting-edge volume addresses central questions and issues animating Judaism, Jewish identity, and Jewish society in the 21st Century in a global, integrated, and forward-looking way, through the prism of three contemporary sets of issues: identities and geographies; structures and power; and knowledge and performances.

Introduction Keren Eva Fraiman & Dean Phillip Bell Part I: Identities and Geographies 1. Who is a Jew in the 21st Century?: The Fractalization of Jewish Identity David Gottlieb 2. The Polarizing Politics of Peoplehood: Judaism and Collective Identity in the 21st Century Noam Pianko 3. The Future of Jewish Demography Sergio DellaPergola 4. Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Israeli Society Sammy Smooha 5. Hebrew and Jewish Diaspora Languages Sarah Bunin Benor 6. We Are All Jews: The Jewish Other and the Other as Jew in Sartre, Levinas, and Blanchot Michael Portal and Claire Elise Katz Part II: Structures and Power 7. Powerful and Powerless: Jews, Government, and Race in Contemporary America Marc Dollinger 8. Israel: Internal, Regional, and International Issues and Challenges Ehud Eiran 9. Memory, Memorialization, and the Shoah after "the End of History"? Manuela Consonni 10. The Institutionalization of American Jewry Ari Y. Kelman 11. Economics and American Judaism in the 21st Century Carmel U. Chiswick 12. Transmuted Chosenness: "The Jewish Family" as Functional Religion in the U.S. Lilah Shapiro 13. Gender Matters: Intermarried Jewish Men, Identity, and Parenting in an Age of Pluralism Keren R. McGinity 14. As If Forced by a Demon: Traditional Orthodox and Sexual Modesty Codes and Modern Times Simcha Feuerman Part III. Knowledge and Performance 15. The Bible in the 21st Century Leonard J. Greenspoon 16. The Talmud Today Mira Beth Wasserman 17. 21st Century Rituals and Customs Amy K. Milligan 18. A Digital Revolution?: Jewish Sacred Literature in the 21st Century Joseph A. Skloot 19. 21st Century Jewish Canons Claire E. Sufrin 20. God, Covenant, and Authority William Plevan 21. New Horizons of Revelation on the Axis of 21st Century Jewish Theology Miriam Feldmann Kaye 22. Jewish Life and Planet Earth in the 21st Century Nigel Savage 23. The Sounds of 21st Century Judaism Judah M. Cohen and Gordon Dale 24. Jewish Literature and Jews and Literature Josh Lambert 25. Looking Jewish in Century 21 Larry Silver. Bibliography Index