Michael Rosenak

‘The Catechism of the Jew Is His Calendar’

Moadim Lesimcha: Explorations into the Jewish Holidays By Rabbi Shlomo Aviner Urim Publications, 208 pages, $22. * * *| The ideological quandary of almost all post-Enlightenment Jews has been how, and even whether, to be both modern and Jewish. Modern Jews, in contradistinction to merely contemporary ones, are, of course, those who say it can…