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| Why Be Jewish? | 
| Author: David J. Wolpe
Publisher: Owl Books
Category: Book
List Price: $12.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 79259
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0805039279
Dewey Decimal Number: 296.7
EAN: 9780805039276
ASIN: 0805039279
Publication Date: September 15, 1995
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| Customer Reviews:
 DISAPPOINTING July 9, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you like long-winded fluff, this book is for you. He says absolutely nothing that a person couldn't say about any other religion or philosophy. this book doesn't make me want to be Jewish.
 Short & Sweet; Eloquent & Profound May 7, 2000
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This little book is a beautiful read. He describes the essential ideas, attitudes, and perceptions of Judaism with eloquent, if not poetic, language that touches the heart. I am not religious or observant, but I am seeking to find my own spirituality within Judaism. This book goes straight to the heart of Juadaism. I highly recommend it.
Extremely rewarding & short too January 21, 2000
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I loved this book! In a very few pages, it gives you a sense of why the author, and by extension anyone else, would want to be a Jew. Moreover, the book is written in a beautifully lyric prose, which was beautiful & easy to read. I would love to mass produce this book & give it to every non-Orthodox Jew as well as anyone thinking of conversion. What a treat!
Takes forever to answer the question and does so insipidly. January 24, 1999
15 out of 34 found this review helpful
Wolpe takes forever to answer the question, "Why Be Jewish." One must first plow through mounds of fluffy and cute prose -- much of it sounding like a bad imitation of Abraham Joshua Heschel. Wolpe waits until the last paragraph of the final chapter to answer the question, but give an answer that can only be described as insipid. Mr. Wolpe apparently believes that the reason to be Jewish is that one should be good and joyful and help the world and be one with God. Sorry, Mr. Wolpe, that is not a reason to be Jewish. That is a reason to be an ethical monotheist, which is all that Wolpe's "Judaism" amounts to. A banal and disappointing work.
Small books sometime deliver grand messages. Beautiful! December 30, 1998
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read this book a long time ago, but I remember how much I liked it. If you ever need to tell somebody why you enjoy being Jewish, you should tell them to read this little book.
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