But there are lessons for us here. In this new emphasis on the particular, we Jews are presented with new tasks. And new opportunities. I will try to address some of these implications in my column in the weeks to come. For now, however, I return to the question at the beginning of this column.
Postmodernism has much to offer.
It opens up new possibilities of meaning, and has led to an invigorated, revived spirituality amongst American Jews. But there are limits as well. But right was always right, and wrong was always wrong. Now we are told that there are many rights, that what is wrong may well be wrong for you, but right for me. Yet we sense that some acts must be wrong for everyone, and that behind the many half-truths is a single truth all of us may one day grasp.