Religion as a public good: Jews and other Americans on religion in the public square

Introduction / Alan Mittleman

1. The liberal social contract and the privatization of religion / John Bethke Elshtain

2. "A proper blessing?": The Jew and the American public square / Marc Dollinger

3. The theological-political predicament of American Jewry / Alan Mittleman

4. The probable persistence of American Jewish liberalism / Kenneth D. Wald

5. The need for a wall separating church and state: Why the establishment clause is so important for Jews and what Jews are so important for the establishment clause / Erwin Chemerinsky

6. American Jewry, Pre- and Post-9/11 / Gertrude Himmelfarb

7. Traditional Judaism and American citizenship / William A. Galston

8. A Jewish policy on church-state relation / David Novak

9. Jewish law and American public policy: A principled Jewish law view and some practical Jewish observation / Michael J. Broyde

10. Religious diversity and the common good / Alan Wolfe

11. Religion and the public good / Michael Gottsegen

12. Judaism influencing American public philosophy / Elliot N. Dorff

13. 9/11 and the aftershocks: Rethinking American secularism and religious p;pluralism / Carl A. Raschke

14. The Jew in the American public square / Mickey Edwards

15. From China to Jersey City: Religious pluralism, religious liberty, and human rights / Kevin J. Hasson

Afterword: Looking forward: From Jewish interest to Judaic principle / Jonathan Sacks.