Passionate Centrism

David J. Fine is the rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and is also an adjunct professor of Jewish law at the Abraham Geiger and Zacharias Frankel Colleges at the University of Potsdam in Germany. He was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and received his PhD in modern European history from the City University of New York.

We hope this book will be read and studied by people in all the Jewish religious movements, for we do not have many such books that force us to re-examine our stands as this one does. This book is challenging, and not comfortable to read for many of us, but the questions that it raises must be confronted by us all.