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Article: Reading from Right to Left
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- September 22, 1995
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Jeff Green
Jerusalem Post
09-22-1995
Intelligent and perceptive American Jews such as Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus, an account of the visit of a delegation of Jews to the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala, India, believe that the key to Jewish spiritual renewal lies in the esoteric doctrines of Kabbala as mediated in modern idiom by such teachers as Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi.
Academic scholars in Israel have been studying Kabbala intensively, not necessarily because they are committed to revitalizing Judaism but because, historically, it has been one of the most creative areas of Jewish intellectual life. One such scholar is Bracha Sack, a lecturer in Jewish tought at ...