Reviews and analyses the history and implications of the dualistic paradigm that has characterised Judaism throughout the ages: pluralism and sectarianism, religiosity and secularity, universalism and separatism, reform and uniformity.

Josephus' Antiquities 11.297-347 - Unravelling the Evidence Regarding the Founding of the Gerizim Temple and the Background of the Samaritan Religious Community, Ernest Whaley; Josephus' Attitude Toward the Samaritans - A Study in Ambivalence, Lois H. Feldman; Samaritanism - Judaism or Another Religion?, Benyamin Tsedaka; Jewish-Christian Sects and the Jewish-Christian Debate, Richard A Freund; Who Were the Jewish Sectarians Under Early Islam?, Steven M. Wasserstrom; The Sabbatean Movement in Smyrna - The Social Background, Jacob Barnai; Haskalah and the Roots of Jewish Radicalism, Erich E. Haberer; The Jewish Youth Movements as an Historical Phenomenon, Chaim Shatzker; The Sect of Catastrophe - Mahane Israel-Lubavitch 1940-1945, Gershom Greenberg; Intersecting Spheres - Feminism in a Congregational Setting, Stuart Schoenfeld; Halakhah and Holocaust Theology - Perspectives on Power, G. Philip Points; To Be Apart of, Not Apart From, America - American Reform Judaism and Social Justice, Joel D. Gereboff; The Status of the Non-Sabbath Observer - The Rabbinic Response to Non-Conformity, Morris S. Gorelik; Images of the Movements - Perceptions of American Jewish University Students, Mervin F. Verbit; Factions Within a Faction - Israel's Communist Movement, Sondra M. Rubenstein; Roots of the Ideological-Political Controversy Between the Right and the Left in Israel, Yaacov Goldstein; Integration and Segregation - The Development of Diverse Trends in Israeli Religious Political Parties, Gary S. Schiff; Religious-Secular Accommodation in Israeli Politics, Alan Dowty; Panel Discussion - American Jewry - One or Many Judaisms?, Joseph R. Rosenbloom, David A. Teutsch, Rela Geffen Monson, Morris Gorelik.