In this pioneering study of Jewish thought, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks addresses a crucial dilemma for Jews and Judaism today. The Holocaust and the birth of the State of Israel have combined to create a strong contemporary awareness of peoplehood - of Jews as sharing a common history, destiny and responsibility. But can three be peoplehood across the deep religious and cultural divisions that are the heritage of the Jewish encounter with modernity? Rabbi Sacks explores the responses of contemporary Jewish thought to this dilemma, through an examination of the concepts of covenant and peoplehood: the nature of religious pluralism in a Jewish context; the relationship of Jewish law to contemporary society; and the interpretation of religious texts today. Crisis and Covenant, first published in 1992, is essential reading, not only for students of Jewish thought and modern Jewish history, but for all those concerned with the fate of religious traditions in a secular age.