CONTENTS

Symposium Issue on Finding Our Path: Becoming a Rabbi After Ordination

ARTICLES

From the Editor: At the Gates – בשערים

Introduction to This Issue from the Guest Editors
Michael Shire and Marcus Burstein

SECTION ONE: THEORY TO PRACTICE

Fostering a Relationship between Rabbi and God
Carol Ochs

Continuing Learning and Professional Practice
Peter Jarvis

CCAR Rabbis: Learning in Order to Teach
Deborah Prinz

SECTION TWO: REFLECTED PRACTICE

The Road Frequently Not Taken: Choosing a Career as a Camp Rabbi
Vicki Tuckman

Education of the Adventure Rabbi
Jamie Korngold

My Sacred Journey to Chaplaincy
David J. Zucker

Visions of an Alternative Rabbinic Journey
Shira Stern

Aseh L’Cha Rav . . . If Only It Were That Easy
Scott Aaron

The Road Less Traveled: Evolution of Rabbinic Career
Judith Z. Abrams

“Don’t Let that Horse Bite You!” Rabbinical Leadership Lessons Learned in the Riding Ring
Jennifer A. Jaech

Dismissed from the Room
Leah Doberne-Schor

A Clearing
Mordecai Finley

The Rabbi as Ish To’eh Basadeh
Daniel S. Alexander

Lo Bashamayim Hi . . .: Journeying Towards Post-Theistic Rabbinic Practice
Howard Cooper

The Rabbi as Values-Based Corporate Leader
Edwin Goldberg

People Plan, God Laughs
Shari Shamah

I Have Learned from Each Person
Joel Mosbacher

Still Becoming a Rabbi
Sylvia Rothschild

RESPONSES TO SUMMER 2010 SYMPOSIUM ISSUE ON POLITICS AND SPIRITUALITY

POETRY

Commentary
Linda Pastan

Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh Speaks to Us of Names
Judy Neri

On What Would Have Been My Father’s Eighty-Fifth Birthday
Steve Hellyard Swartz

BOOK REVIEWS

Revelation and the God of Israel
Norbert M. Samuelson Reviewed by Philip Cohen

The Jerusalem Talmud First Order: Zeraim Tractates Peah and Demay
Edited by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer Reviewed by Judith Z. Abrams

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Symposium Issue on New Visions of Jewish Community

ARTICLES

From the Editor: At the Gates – בשערים

Introduction to This Issue from the Guest Editors
Alan Henkin and Paul Kipnes

A Demographer Considers the Twenty-First Century
Bruce A. Phillips

Keeping the Glass Half Full: Reinvigorating American Reform Judaism
Lance J. Sussman

Future of the Denominations: Analysis and Possibilities
Amy L. Sales

Shifting Landscapes: The Response of Modernity to Faith, Social Advocacy, and Demographic Change
Stephen S. Pearce

In this Time, In This Place: Establishing Your Voice and Defi ning Your Message
Steven Windmueller

Building and Enhancing Religious Community Online
Laura A. Baum

Moving Beyond the Limited Reach of Current “Social Media” Approaches: Why Jewish Digital Communities Require Rich and Remixable Narrative Content
Owen Gottlieb

Just Beyond the Horizon
Richard F. Address

Judaism 2111
Avi Schulman

POETRY

Biographic Bridge
Navah-Tehila

Sending My First Chumash to Sheimos
Norman Lipson

God’s Toolbox
James B. Rosenberg

BOOK REVIEWS

The Architecture of Louis Kahn and Percival Goodman— A Review Essay
Louis I. Kahn’s Trenton Jewish Community Center
Susan G. Solomon
Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the
Midcentury American Synagogue
Susan G. Solomon
Reviewed by Elliot B. Gertel

Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Elie Kaunfer Reviewed by Cathy L. Felix

Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation
Naomi Seidman Reviewed by Laurence Edwards

When I Sleep and When I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn
Dalia Marx Reviewed by David Ariel-Joel

The Man Who Knew God: Decoding Jeremiah
Mordecai Schreiber Reviewed by David J. Zucker

 

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CONTENTS

Symposium Issue on New Visions of Jewish Community

ARTICLES

From the Editor: At the Gates – בשערים

Introduction to This Issue from the Guest Editors
Alan Henkin and Paul Kipnes

A Demographer Considers the Twenty-First Century
Bruce A. Phillips

Keeping the Glass Half Full: Reinvigorating American Reform Judaism
Lance J. Sussman

Future of the Denominations: Analysis and Possibilities
Amy L. Sales

Shifting Landscapes: The Response of Modernity to Faith, Social Advocacy, and Demographic Change
Stephen S. Pearce

In this Time, In This Place: Establishing Your Voice and Defi ning Your Message
Steven Windmueller

Building and Enhancing Religious Community Online
Laura A. Baum

Moving Beyond the Limited Reach of Current “Social Media” Approaches: Why Jewish Digital Communities Require Rich and Remixable Narrative Content
Owen Gottlieb

Just Beyond the Horizon
Richard F. Address

Judaism 2111
Avi Schulman

POETRY

Biographic Bridge
Navah-Tehila

Sending My First Chumash to Sheimos
Norman Lipson

God’s Toolbox
James B. Rosenberg

BOOK REVIEWS

The Architecture of Louis Kahn and Percival Goodman— A Review Essay
Louis I. Kahn’s Trenton Jewish Community Center
Susan G. Solomon
Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the
Midcentury American Synagogue
Susan G. Solomon
Reviewed by Elliot B. Gertel

Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Elie Kaunfer Reviewed by Cathy L. Felix

Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation
Naomi Seidman Reviewed by Laurence Edwards

When I Sleep and When I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn
Dalia Marx Reviewed by David Ariel-Joel

The Man Who Knew God: Decoding Jeremiah
Mordecai Schreiber Reviewed by David J. Zucker

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Symposium Issue on Tikkun Olam

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gate – בשער

ARTICLES

Introduction
Charles A. Kroloff

A Jewish Theology of Social Action
Eugene B. Borowitz

The Use and Abuse of Jewish Tradition in Political Debate 
David Saperstein

The Use of Mipnei Tikkun Ha’Olam in the Babylonian Talmud
David S. Widzer

Israel: Social Justice and Reform Responsibility
David J. Forman

Building the Power for Redemption: An Introduction to and Theology of Congregation-based Community Organizing
Jonah Dov Pesner and Lila Foldes

A Dialogue on Tikkun Olam

In the Beginning: A Personal Memoir of Social Action and Reform Judaism in America
Albert Vorspan

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Murray Saltzman

BOOK REVIEWS

Over My Dead Body: Some Grave Questions for God
David J. Forman Reviewed by Edwin Goldberg

Jewish Spiritual Direction: An Innovative Guide from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Howard A. Addison and Barbara E. Breitman Reviewed by Jennifer Solomon

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Symposium Issue on Synagogue Transformation

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gate – בשער

ARTICLES

Synagogue Transformation: The View from 2009
Dru Greenwood

Synagogue Transformation: To What End and How?

Functional and Visionary Congregations
Isa Aron, Steven M. Cohen, Lawrence Hoffman, Ari Y. Kelman

Transforming Congregations: What It Needs, How It Happens, When It Works
Lawrence Hoffman

Transformation in Action

Keeping the Mice in Shul: Principles for Synagogue Transformation
Richard J. Jacobs

The Riverway Project: Engaging Adults in Their 20s and 30s in the Process of Transforming the Synagogue
Jeremy S. Morrison

Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills: A Work in Progress
laura Geller

Restoring a Center City Congregation
Mitchell Chefitz

A Do-It-Yourself Shul
Lydia Kukoff

Jewish Community Project
Darren Levine

Sustaining Synagogue Transformation

HUC-JIR and the Creation of Visionary Jewish Leadership
Aaron D. Panken

Agents of Change in an Emerging Field: A Conversation
Dru Greenwood

Making Change in the Kehillah
Deborah Joselow

A Philadelphia Story: Partnership for Change
Philip Warmflash

Looking Ahead

Future of the Synagogue
Amy L. Sales

 

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Symposium Issue on High Holy Day Liturgy

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gate – בשער

ARTICLES

Introduction: Getting to the Heart of the Discussion of a New Machzor
Elaine Zecher

Giving Meaning to Our Days: Reimagining Un’taneh Tokef– A Survey of Selected Sermons
Daniel Plotkin

The Angels Proclaim It, But Can We? “The Whole Earth Is Full of God’s Presence”
Nancy Flam

Wrestling with God’s Image in the High Holy Day Liturgy
Yoel H. Kahn

Searching for God in the 7th Grade
Joel Mosbacher

The Poetry and the Power of Paradox
Margaret Moers Wenig

POETRY

Thank You
Geri Rosenzsweig

O Lake You Are the Mouth of God
Dena Feingold

To Our Father
Arlene Weiner

The Fire and the Knife
Dan Logan

It Is Stillness: A Poetic Meditation
Richard Walden

Yom Kippur Fast in Taos
Judith Strasser

BOOK REVIEWS

Practice
Dan Bellm Reviewed by Adam D. Fisher

The Making of Israel’s National Poet
Nili Scharf Gold Reviewed by William Cutter

The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old Church
Diana Butler Bass Reviewed by Matthew D. Gerwitz

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Symposium Issue on Jewish Perspectives on Finances and the Marketplace

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gate – בשער

ARTICLES

Introduction: Jewish Perspectives on Finances and the Marketplace
Karyn D. Kedar

Full Faith and Credit: Jewish Views on Debt and Bankruptcy
Edward Elkin

Housing Transactions, Transparency, and Halachah: A Proposal
Jonathan Cohen and A. Brian Stoller

Tzedakah, Recession, and Social Policy
CCAR Responsa Committee
Mark Washofsky, Chair

The Rabbi as Philanthropic Advisor
Ellen Flax

Ethical Priorities in Giving Tzedakah
Ruth Adar

The Biblical Debtor’s Release (Deuteronomy 15:1-3): Bankruptcy It Isn’t-Or Is It?
Robin Nafshi

Money, Schism, and the Creation of American Reform Judaism
Dan Judson

The Decline and Fall of the Interest Ban
Hillel Gamoran

POETRY

In the Black Night Vayishlach
John L. Rosove

BOOK REVIEWS

The Legacy of Our Reform Kibbutzim: Can We Renew the Dream- A Review Essay

Light in the Arava? Yahel: Dialogue and a Joint Undertaking between the Kibbutz Movement and the Reform Movement
Gidon Elad

Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel’s Reform Kibbutzim
William F.S Miles

Reviewed by Debra Goldstein

Jewish Law in Transition
Hillel Gamoran Reviewed by Herbert Bronstein

An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible
Walter Brueggemann Reviewed by Mordecai Schreiber

The Sights Along the Harbor
Harvey Shapiro Reviewed by Adam D. Fisher

The Modern Men’s Torah Commentary: New Insights from Jewish Men on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions
Edited by Jeffrey K. Salkin Reviewed by Jeffrey Brown

The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism
Edited by Danya Ruttenberg Reviewed by Ruth Gelfarb

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Symposium Issue on Politics and Spirituality

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gate – בשער

ARTICLES

Establishing A Foundation

Politics: A Prophetic Call to Rabbis
Richard N. Levy

Not Your Father’s (or Your Mother’s) Advocacy: The Moral Voice of the Rabbi in Challenging Times
Marla J. Feldman

Ritual Versus Justice: Must We Choose?
Suzanne Singer

Dissent from the Dissenters
Clifford E. Librach

When Rabbis Take Positions

Principles of Rabbinic Advocacy

Same-Gender Marriages from the Intersection of Faith and Politics
Arthur Gross Schaefer and Robert Cornwall

The Ballot, the Bimah, and the Tax Code
Ellen P. Aprill

Liberal Dilemma: The Prophetic Mandate versus Religion-State Separation in Reform Political Discourse
A. Brian Stoller

Examples of Rabbinic Advocacy

Rabbis for Obama: The Role of Rabbinic Leadership in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Samuel N. Gordon

Rabbis for Obama: A Rabbi for Obama
Steven Bob

Scariest Night
Jerrold Goldstein

It Wasn’t a Giant Leap but a Natural Next Step
Allen I. Freehling

When Congregations Take Positions

The Jewish Case for Community Organizing

Power Precedes Program: Relationships and Politics in the Pulpit
Larry Bach

Where the Sanctuary and the Public Square Meet: The Story of Temple Israel’s “Vote No on One” Campaign
Stephanie D. Kolin

POETRY

For Yaakov Ari Ringler
Stanley Chyet z”l

Shofar
Debra R. Hachen

BOOK REVIEWS

Just Torah- A Review Essay

Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism
Rebecca T. Alpert

Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice
Edited by Or N. Rose, Jo Ellen Green kaiser, and Margie Klein
Reviewed by Eric Caplan

Drawing in the Dust
Zoe Klein Reviewed by Pamela Wax

From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
Matthew Hoffman Reviewed by David Fox Sandmel

 

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Symposium Issue on Judaism, Health, and Healing

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gate – בשער

ARTICLES

Introduction to this Issue from the Guest Editors
Michele Prince and Nancy H. Wiener

Spirituality and Religion in Health Care: A Rabbi’s Personal Journey
Samuel E. Karff

My Daughter or Son the Nurse: Jews in Nursing and the Healing Role of Nurses
Ellen Olshansky

The Kalsman Institute Research Roundtable: Building a Field of Judaism and Health
Michele Prince

Of Teachers and Angels: Jewish Insights on Transforming the Relationship between Patient and Health Professional
Carol Levy and Richard N. Levy

Standing in the Doorway: Pastoral Perspectives on In-Home Chaplaincy
Jo Hirschmann

Beyond Membership to True Belonging: Jewish Responses to an Unchanging Need for Deep Attachment and Meaning in an Ever-Changing World
Edythe Held Mencher

The Torah of Despair
Elliot Kukla

The Stigma of Infertility
Eleanor Steinman

Ruth, Naomi and Levina’s Other: Asymmetrical Pastoral Care
Ruth Gais

On Illness
Douglas Kohn

P’tach Libi B’Toratecha (Open My Heart to Your Torah): Jewish Pastoral Theology in Process
Barbara E. Breitman, Mychal B. Springer, and Nancy H. Wiener

Rabbi’s Support of Older Couples’ Second Marriages
Harriet Rosen and Marlene Levenson

A New Ritual for Healing and Well-Being
Geri Newburge

The Intermediate Blessings of the Amidah as the Model for a Personal Twelve-Step Program
Jeffrey Ableser

A Very Personal Reflection: Debbie Friedman’s Setting of Mi Shebeirach as a Sonata
Evan Kent

Standing in Life before God: Report and Reflection on One Congregation’s First Steps for Creating a Congregation-Based Program on Health and Wellness
Richard F. Address

Sacred Communities: The Potential for Synagogues to be Communities of Caring and Meaning in the Older Population
Marion Lev-Cohen

Experiencing Judaism through Thematic Temple Programming
Richard Steinberg

The Rabbi Does Handstands: An Exploration of the Emerging Field of Jewish Yoga in North American Synagogues and Beyond
Marcus J. Freed

Verbatim with God
Robert Tabak

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

The Origins of the Reform Concept of Prayer: An Eighteenth Century Essay by Isaac Euchel
Translation and Introduction
Michael A. Meyer

POETRY

I Met a Man Today
Daniel S. Alexander

Between Earthquake and Hurricane
Daniel S. Alexander

After Psalm 16
Daniel S. Alexander

A Meditation: Healing the Broken-ness
Paulette Rochelle-Levy

Not Knowing
Abby Caplin

MRI
Linda Hepner

Words of Wisdom from Four Poets
Dawn Gross, Paulette Rochelle-Levy, Allen S. Maller, Patti Tana

BOOK REVIEWS

Midrash and Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition
Edited by Rabbi William Cutter, Ph.D., Reviewed by Rabbi Rochelle Robins

No Offense, Self-Defense, and On the Fence: Rabbis in Search of American Jewish Identity-A Review Essay

What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth Century American Rabbis
Naomi W. Cohen

Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Lila Corwin Berman

Jewish Preaching in Times of War 1800-2001
Marc Saperstein

Reviewed by Rabbi Richard Hirsh

 

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Symposium Issue on Gender and Judaism in Conversation

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gates

ARTICLES

Introduction to this Issue from the Guest Editor

Elyse Goldstein

SECTION ONE: FEMINISM STARTS THE CONVERSATION

Emerging Rabbis: It’s Too Soon to Proclaim “Mission Accomplished”

Jodie Gordon

Shechinah: The Divine Feminine

Geela Rayzel Raphael

Bat Mitzvah’s Delayed Coming-of-Age in Reform Judaism

Carole B. Balin

SECTION TWO: THE CONVERSATION WITH TEXT AND RITUAL

Learning Talmud Together: Reclaiming the Text through Feminish Chevruta

Audrey Pollack and Marcia Beck

Deconstructing Feminist Midrash: The Next Step in the Revolution of Revelation

Laurie Green

B’rit Milah: A Feminist Dialogue

Elyse Goldstein

Response to Rabbi Elyse Goldstein on B’rit Milah

Leah R. Berkowitz

The Hospital Poems of Zelda: A Spirituality for Ailing and Aging

Rachel Adler

SECTION THREE: THE CONVERSATION INCLUDES MEN

Brotherhood, In Memoriam? 1923–?

Doug Barden

Gender and the Soul of Men

Shawn Israel Zevit

Making the Minyan

Peter B. Schaktman

SECTION FOUR: BROADENING THE CONVERSATION BEYOND BINARY

Male and Female, God Created Them? The Intersex, Transgender, and Transsexual in Jewish Tradition and in Our Lives

Margaret Moers Wenig

In God’s Image (B’tzelem Elohim)

Kate Levy

Rainbow Children Grown Up: Conversations on Jewish/Queer Identity and Communal Culture

Jane Rachel Litman

Two Women Marrying in the Tradition of Moses and Israel

Jaimee Shalhevet and Helayne Shalhevet

SECTION FIVE: THE CONVERSATION IN ISRAEL

On Gender Segregation in Israel

Anat Hoffman

Women Rabbis in Israel

Dalia Marx

RESPONSES TO PRIOR ARTICLES AND ISSUES

Reeve Brenner

Israel Zoberman

Allen Mahler

Scott Saulson

POETRY

Not An Amaryllis

James B. Rosenberg

Sense of Humor

Mindy Kronenberg

The King and Queen of Newbridge

Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan

Six to Six

Gayl Teller

BOOK REVEWS

The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival

Hirsh Goodman

Reviewed by Ron Kronish

For the Sake of Zion: Reform Zionism—A Personal Mission

Richard G. Hirsch

Reviewed by Henry (Hank) Skirball

All Is One? Current Theories—A Review Essay

Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition

Arthur Green

Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism

Jay Michaelson

Jewish Theology in Our Time

Edited by Elliot J. Cosgrove

Reviewed by Eric Caplan

Two Views of American Judaism—A Review Essay

Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal

Dana Evan Kaplan

Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics and the ArtScroll Revolution

Jeremy Stolow

Reviewed by Jeffrey I. Roth

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