The extraordinary dialogue among Bob Gibbs, Steve Kepnes, Peter Ochs, and Yudit Greenberg fastens upon significant aspects of postmodern thought in the interest of developing a new Jewish theology. The difficulty of drawing a boundary between modernism and postmodernism infiltrates the comments of the conversation partners at every level. Jean-Francois Lyotard claims that the totalizing master narratives of modernism suppress the contingencies of aberrant experience such that social and linguistic context are stretched to fit such experience by interpreting it pejoratively as errant. Derridean postmodernisms are characterized by their turning to the text as the locus of signification and their rejection of the view that language is a transparent medium through which a world external to it can be made present. It is the hunger for the sacred in a post-Shoah, postmodern world that constitutes the affective subtext not only of Jewish learning but also of Jewish ethics.