CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Excerpts from the Winter 2012 ISSUE
FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
Editors’ Introduction: Why Science Matters to Judaism
Philip Cohen and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Part I: Responding to Norbert Samuelson
The Challenges of the Modern Sciences for Jewish Faith
Norbert M. Samuelson
Searching for the Quantum God: On Judaism and Modern Science
Victoria Ziva Frappollo
Jewish Philosophy, Science, and the Humanities
Zachary Braiterman
Part II: Judaism and the Physical Sciences
Judaism and Physics
Peter Ochs
Revisiting Creation, Natural Events and Their
Emergent Patterns
Bradley Shavit Artson
Why We Need Process Theology
Toba Spitzer
Part III: Science and Judaism: Methodological Considerations
A Jewish View of the Evolution of Religion
Allen S. Maller
Dreams: The True Religion-Science Conflict
Russell Jay Hendel
Rethinking Conjoined Twins
Jonathan K. Crane
Part IV: The Human Sciences: Neuroscience, Psychology, and Education
Mystical and Spiritual, Neurological and Theological
Ralph D. Mecklenburger
Neuro-Jewish Education: An Introduction
Justus N. Baird
The Science behind Yetzer Hara
Geoffrey A. Mitelman
The Case for Science Education in Our Religious Schools
Laurie Green
Part V: Rethinking Creation Theology
Science and Judaism in Light of Today’s Ecological Imperative
Fred Scherlinder Dobb
Not Playing to Empty Benches: The Role of Mind in the Search for Meaning
Lawrence Troster
Judaism and Science: Selected Bibliography
RESPONSE TO THE SPRING 2011 SYMPOSIUM
Michael Perelmuter
RESPONSES TO THE SUMMER 2011 ISSUE
Paul Golomb
David Zucker
Joshua Segal
BOOK REVIEWS
Poetry Feeds the Jewish Soul: Introducing Four Reviews
Adam D. Fisher
Finding Words
Merle Feld
Reviewed by Ruthie Gelfarb
God’s Optimism
Yehoshua November
Reviewed by James Rosenberg
70 Faces: Torah Poems
Rachel Barenblat
Reviewed by Adam D. Fisher
Until the Blue Kingdom Comes
James B. Rosenberg
Reviewed by Adam D. Fisher
