Why this rabbi is anxious about Judaism today – and calls himself a 'conditional Zionist'

Rabbi Michael Marmur, former dean of Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, interrogates his hopes and fears about the future of liberal Judaism in 'Living the Letters.' He tells Haaretz why he hasn't lost faith in a different future for Jews and Palestinians

Rabbi Michael Marmur devotes considerable space in his new book on the big Jewish questions of our day to the events of October 7 and their aftermath. Still, the seeds for "Living the Letters: An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought" were planted way before, more than 30 years ago, when he was a young soldier on guard duty at the Megiddo prison in northern Israel.

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