{"product_id":"9780571271634","title":"This is Not the Way: Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew  subjects invoke such passion as the history and current situation of  Jews in Western societies. David Goldberg, a progressive Rabbi with many  years' experience of dealing with other faiths and other Jews, takes  the most difficult issues of this fraught relationship and confronts  them head on. He argues that it is wrong to equate anti-Semitism with  anti-Zionism, that it is far more difficult to be a Muslim in  twenty-first century Britain than it is to be a Jew, that Israel is far  too often treated sentimentally and that the identification of Israel  with the Holocaust - memorializing the latter and sacralising the former  - has had baneful effects. His discussion of the perennial question,  'who is a Jew?', is equally trenchant: he rejects all strict rabbinic  criteria, proposing that a Jew is simply anyone who insists that he or  she is one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForthright, challenging and witty, \u003ci\u003eThis is Not the Way \u003c\/i\u003ewill spark debate, criticism and delight in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120354214128,"sku":"9780571271634","price":14.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571271634_p0.jpg?v=1763718875","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571271634","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}