Jeffrey M. Cohen

Why Am I a Jew?

Philosophy

“This most-readable, impressive, and challenging account of the mysterium tremendum that reveals itself to Baum through the sciences he has mastered and the moral philosophy he has embraced gets mightily close to a religious odyssey. His blistering critique of the numerous atrocities that are perpetrated in the name of religion is most timely, and his basic thesis that ‘we are looking for God in the wrong place’ resonates strongly with some Jewish mystical ideas.”