Menachem Kellner, ‘Must a Jew Believe Anything?’

Originally published in Judaism Today, November 1999, p. 29. Nearing retirement, Rabbi Louis Jacobs considers a book on Judaism and ‘belief’. How Orthodox is Orthodoxy? In his penetrating study on Jewish belief—“Must a Jew Believe Anything?”—published earlier this year and reviewed in these pages, Professor Menachem Kellner demonstrates that the biblical and talmudic term for “faith”—emunah—denotes…