Description: "This book explores the emergence of novel moderate directions in Israeli religious life that have come to fruition in the twenty-first century, and the key role played by a cadre of American immigrants who arrived in Israel between 1965 and 1982"--
Brief description: Adam S. Ferziger is Professor and holds the Rabbi S. R. Hirsch Chair in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, and is Co-Convener of the annual Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism, winner of a National Jewish Book Award.
Review Quotes: "Amid the debate about distancing between American Jews and Israelis, Ferziger's important book focuses on a critical counter-trend: American visionaries who have been influential in shaping Israel. With his rich, nuanced understanding of the Jewish landscape, Ferziger demonstrates that these leaders didn't just come from America: America went through them."--David Makovsky, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy