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To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People is a 2024 book by American legal scholar Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Feldman studies contemporary Jewish identity through three sections addressing Jewish conceptions of God, relationships with the State of Israel, and understandings of Jewish peoplehood. Rather than using traditional denominational categories, he organizes Jewish beliefs into four patterns he terms Traditional, Progressive, Evolutionist, and Godless, and argues that struggle with tradition and divinity constitutes a defining characteristic of Jewish experience across these categories.