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Winter 2024: Symposium: On Being a Jew and a Human Being amid Rapid Technological Change

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Symposium: On Being a Jew and a Human Being amid Rapid Technological Change

• On Being Human: Jewish Theology and the Digital Life – Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, PhD
• Response to Joseph Skloot: Deactivating the Golem – Rabbi Shirley Idelson, PhD
• Divine Transcendence as an Answer to the Problem of Ethical Loneliness – Rabbi Kari Hofmaister Tuling, PhD
• Response to Kari Tuling: Reimagining a Transcendent God — Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz, PhD
• A Holistic Jewish Life – Rabbi Sari Laufer
• Response to Sari Laufer: Facing the Demise of Reform Jewish Particularism – Rabbi Amy R. Perlin
• Freeing Ourselves from Kant’s Dichotomy – Rabbi Leon A. Morris
• Response to Leon Morris: Choosing to Accept What is Beyond Choice – Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow
• Toward a Reform Jewish Theological Renewal in Dark Times – Dr. Alyssa M. Gray
• Response to Alyssa Gray: Tragic Vision, Stubborn Hope – Rabbi David Stern
• How We Should Teach Reform Jews to Read the Torah Since We All Know That the World Is Round: Seven Guidelines for Reform Jewish Leaders – Rabbi Jeremy S. Morrison, PhD
• Response to Jeremy Morrison: Ruthlessly Relevant Torah – Rabbi Hilly Haber

General Articles

• My Religious Philosophy: A Religious Naturalist Approach – Rabbi Rifat Sonsino, PhD
• A New Yahrzeit Ritual Practice: Yahrzeit Observance in the Home on the Deceased’s Birthday – Rabbi Mark S. Kram
• 60th Ordination Anniversary Sermon – Rabbi Alan D. Fuchs
• The Akeidah as Dream Sequence – Rabbi Neil Amswych

Book Reviews

• Biblical Women Speak: Hearing Their Voices through New and Ancient Midrash by Rabbi Marla J. Feldman, reviewed by Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller
• Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America by Laura Yares, reviewed by Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph, PhD
• Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa by Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, reviewed by Rabbi Samuel Kaye
• Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture by Mira Balberg, reviewed by Rabbi Matthew Kraus
• The King Is in the Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought edited by Julie E. Cooper and Samuel Hayim Brody, reviewed by Rabbi Joshua Herman
• The Last Consolation Vanished by Zalman Gradowski, edited by Arnold I. Davidson and Philippe Mesnard, translated by Rubye Monet, and reviewed by Rabbi Rachel Maimin
• Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel by Susan Ackerman, reviewed by Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein, PhD
• Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Elisheva Baumgarten, reviewed by Rabbi Susan L. Einbinder, PhD

Poetry

• Klaf – Jehanne Dubrow
• Bouldering – Jehanne Dubrow
• Saying Kaddish – Jehanne Dubrow
• To Inherit and Bequeath – Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
• Sh’mana – Rabbi Albert Micah Lewis
• Obituary for a Dog (Seder K’lavim) – Immanuel Suttner
• When We Left – Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
• Elijah’s Cup: A Child’s Pesach – Roger Nash
• Living by a Lunar Calendar – Roger Nash
• A Story of Mizrach in My Town – Roger Nash
• Hillel on the Roof – Philip Terman
• On Reading the Akeidah as a Dream Sequence on Rosh HaShanah – Rabbi Daniel Polish
• At the Tashlich Pond – Rabbi Dan Fink
• Predicate Psalm – Michael Sandler
• Unlike Jacob – Rabbi Israel Bobrov Zoberman, PhD

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Fall 2023: Symposium on Language

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Symposium Articles

• Searching for My Brethren – Ilana Cruger-Zaken
• A Journey to Hulaula, and Other Jewish Iranian Languages – Alan Niku
• The Linguistic Landscape of Juhuri: A Sociolinguistic Overview of an Endangered Jewish Language of the Caucasus – Murad Suleymanov
• Enriching Jewish Leadership: Adaptive Chevruta as a Modern Language for Jewish Learning – Rabbi Ana Bonnheim, Avidan Halivni, and Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz
• Finding a New Term: “Bet Mitzvah” – Rabbi Linda Joseph and Rabbi Evan Schultz
• Unspoken Words – Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun, DMin
• Yiddish Today: Revival, Revitalization, and Rediscovery – Rebecca (Rivke) Margolis
• The Efficacy of Payer: Yotzer Or, A Case Study – Eden Glaser
• Sing to God a New Song: Introducing The JPS Tanakh: Gender-Sensitive Edition – Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz and Rabbi Beth Lieberman

Articles

• Malamud’s Modern Midrash: “Idiots First” – Rabbi David J. Zucker
• Clergy Discretionary Funds: A Powerful Tool for Good – Rabbi Steven A. Fox
• Jewish Breads Tell Stories – Rabbi Deborah Prinz
• Consecrated Unto Me – Rabbi Martin P. Beifield Jr.

Book Reviews

• Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel – Yoel Shalom Perez and Judith Rosenhouse – Reviewed by Rabbi Phyllis Sommer, RJE
• The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America – Sandra Fox – Reviewed by Rabbi Allie Fischman
• To Be a Holy People: Jewish Tradition and Ethical Values – Eugene Korn – Reviewed by Alan Mittleman
• Fellow Travelers on a Journey to Tomorrow: A Review Essay – Michael Marmur
  • Judaism in a Digital Age: An Ancient Age Confronts a Transformative Era – Danny Schiff
  • Judaism Disrupted: A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century – Michael Strassfeld
• In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust – Richard Hurowitz – Reviewed by Rabbi Rachel Kaplan Marks
• Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe – Alan Verskin – Reviewed by Jennifer Grayson, PhD
• New Perspectives in American Jewish History: A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna – Edited by Mark A. Raider and Gary Phillip Zola, Reviewed by Rabbi Ari S. Lorge

Poetry

• Foehrenwald, 1957 – Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
• It is nice – Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
• Some Shatterings – Patty Seyburn
• The Exilarch – Patty Seyburn
• Trying to Listen – Patty Seyburn
• Half and Half – Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce
• Legends of our time – Rabbi Steven Lebow
• O Let Me Behold Your Presence! – Wayne Norman Cochran
• Moses at the End of the Day – Todd Friedman
• Esau’s Story – Todd Friedman
• Ruth’s Marriage – Todd Friedman
• My dreams – Bruce Black
• Looking for a Pebble – Rabbi Roger Nash
• My Grandfather’s Pocket Watch – Rabbi Roger Nash
• The Button Bag – Rabbi Roger Nash
• Sukkot – Rabbi Robert Levy
• But Never Over – Jane R. Snyder
• Never Let Anyone – Jane R. Snyder
• Red-Haired Giant – Jane R. Snyder
• Poems of Two Cities: The Poetry of Baruch Link – Rabbi William Cutter

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Summer 2023: Israel at Seventy-Five

From the Guest Editor

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Articles

• Challenges Confronting the Jewish and Democratic State of Israel and Diaspora Jewry today – Rabbi John L. Rosove
• Jewish Women in Reform Settings in Israel: Past, Present, and Personal – Rabbi Einat Libel-Hass
• A Glimpse through the Microcosm of Tel HaShomer Hospital – Rabbi Judith Edelman-Green
• The Question of the Israeli Identity of Our Times – Rabbi Osnat Eldar
• Israel Shall be Free, from the River to the Sea – Rabbi Or Zohar
• Why is Reform Judaism So Hated in Israel? – David Sperber
• Reflections on My Love for Israel – Rabbi Rosette Barron Haim
• Being a Liberal Religious Zionist—An Evolving Tension – Rabbi Lea A. Mühlstein 
• Addressing Israel at Seventy-Five – Rabbi Michael (Mickey) Boyden
• Reform Judaism and Israel at Seventy-Five – Rabbi Naamah Kelman
• Avoiding the Worst-Case Scenario – Rabbi Stanley M. Davids
• Healing the Land; Healed by the Land – Rabbi Paul Citrin
• Falling in Love Again with Israel – Rabbi Becky Hoffman
• The Imperative to Seek Peace – Rabbi Ron Kronish
• Israel at Seventy-Five: Good for Its Place – Rabbi Sanford Olshansky
• Aliyah in Retirement – Rabbi Donald P. Cashman
• “Location, Location, Location” – Rabbi Joseph A. Edelheit
• Redemption Is Always Possible – Rabbi Arik Ascherman
• From Demonstrations to Demonstrating the Power of Social Change – Rabbi Kinneret Shiryon and Rabbi Nir Ishay Barkin

Book Reviews

• Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies: The Wisdom of Transkeit – Edited by Jane Rachel Litman and Jakob Hero-Shaw – Reviewed by Rabbi Emily Langowitz
• The Book of Job in Jewish Life and Thought: Critical Essays – Jason Kalman – Reviewed by Rabbi David Ellenson
• Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army – Adam D. Mendelsohn – Reviewed by Rabbi Ben Zeidman
• The Reform Movement in Israel: Perspectives on Identity and Community (Hebrew) – Edited by Elazar Ben-Lulu and Ofer Shiff – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal – Yonatan Adler – Reviewed by Kristine Garroway, PhD

Poetry

• Romemu Hashtag Haiku – Patty Seyburn
• Ten things that should have been created at twilight on the sixth day of creation, according to Yours Truly – Patty Seyburn
• Another Nisan – Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
• Adrift – Rabbi Daniel Polish
• I Never Heard of That – Richard Rosengarten
• Upon His Return Before El Beit El – Rabbi Jeff Ablesser

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Spring 2023

From the Editor

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Articles

• Genesis 2 and B’nei Mitzvah at Eighty-Three – Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, PhD, and Rabbi Stanley M. Davids
• Jacob Neusner on Academic and Religious Authority, and Reform Judaism – Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel
• Further Thoughts on a Broken Oven: A Return to Bava M’tzia 59b – Rabbi Paul Golomb
• Love, Conversion, and Marriage: The Missing Story of Joseph’s Wife, Aseneth – Anthony Sheppard
• It’s Time to Include Equity Riders in Rabbinic Employment Contracts – Jamie Eisner, Esq., Rabbi Paul Kipnes, Michael Gan, Esq., Rabbi David Spinrad, and Rabbi Susan N. Shankman

Book Reviews

• Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague – Susan Einbinder – Reviewed by Rabbi Nicole Roberts
• The Founding Father (Chaim Weizmann, Biography 1922-1952) – Motti Golani and Jehuda Reinhartz – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Dirshuni: Contemporary Women’s Midrash – Edited by Tamar Biala – Reviewed by Rabbi Sari Laufer
• Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge – Richard Ovenden – Reviewed by Rabbi Adam Rosenthal
• Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World – Brian Ogren – Reviewed by Rabbi Bailey Romano
• Longing: Poems of a Life – Merle Feld – Reviewed by Jack Riemer
• The Messiah Confrontation: Pharisees Versus Sadducees and the Death of Jesus – Israel Knohl – Reviewed by Rabbi Joshua Garroway, PhD

Short Fiction

• A Brief History of the Alef – Howard Schwartz

Poetry

• The Organ Recital – Rabbi Dr. Stephen S. Pearce
• Found in Psalm 23 – Jacqueline Jules
• The Average Israelite – Jacqueline Jules
• Vidui: Preface to an Unwritten Book – John H. Planer
• Moses in Midian – Stephen Bertman, PhD
• Walking the Labyrinth – Rabbi Pamela Wax
• All the Torah – Rabbi Pamela Wax
• Creation Questions 5783 – Mike Abram
• Saturday Morning Service – Robert Manaster
• The Blueness of Chagall’s Stained-Glass Windows – Robert Nash
• Chagall’s “Solitude,” 1933/34. – Robert Nash
• Noah – Bruce Zuckerman
• Jacob was Left Alone – Rabbi Dan Ornstein

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Winter 2023

From the Editor

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Articles: The Rabbinate as Career: Challenges and Opportunities

• Reflections of a Rabbinate – Rabbi Lewis Kamrass
• Getting What You Wish For: Jewish Professionals and the Emotional Meaning of Money – Rabbi Ellen Lewis
• Fifty Years with One Congregation: A Memoir of Sorts – Rabbi Peter H. Grumbacher
• Joys of Being a Second-Career Rabbi – Rabbi Sanford Olshansky
• “That’s No Job for a Jewish Boy”: In Honor of Those Who Guided Me in My Rabbinate – Rabbi Philip Bently
• Making the Circuit – Rabbi Jordan Parr
• An Unlikely Journey – Rabbi Neal Katz

General Articles

• “Egypt Is Lost”: Lessons for History and America – Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman
• Declarations of Dialogue: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Overtures to the Religious Other – Rabbi Judith Schindler
• M’gillah and Machiavelli: Esther’s Political Science – Rabbi Leigh Lerner
• Challenges and Opportunities for Change: Biblical Models – Rabbi Steven Bob
• Interpersonal T’shuvah – Rabbi Neil Hirsch
• Aliyat HaNefesh: How to Raise the Community’s Spirituality One Step at a Time – Rabbi Lester Polansky

Book Reviews

• From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life – Arthur C. Brooks – Reviewed by Rabbi Melanie Aron
• Power and Gender in Rabbinic Sexual Abuse: A Review Essay: When Rabbis Abuse: Power, Gender, and Status in the Dynamics of Sexual Abuse in Jewish Culture – Elana Sztokman – Reviewed by Rabbi Rachel Adler, PhD
• The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found – Frank Bruni – Reviewed by Rabbi David J. Zucker, PhD
• A God We can Believe In – Edited by Richard Agler and Rifat Soncino – Reviewed by Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis
• Search: A Novel – Michelle Huneven – Reviewed by Rabbi Benjamin Altshuler
• The Third Temple – Abraham B. Yehoshua – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Arc of Our History: A Social and Political Narrative of Family and Nation – Stanley Rigler – Reviewed by Rabbi Daniel Polish
• Headstone – Mark Elber – Reviewed by Rabbi Natalie Louise Shribman

Poetry

• Homeless No More – Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• The Night Before My Doctor’s Appointment – Richard Fein

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Fall 2022

The Family Issue

Editorial Team: Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman; Rabbi Lisa Sari Bellows; Rabbi Stacey Blank; Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, PhD; Rabbi Laura Lieber, PhD; Rabbi Beth Lieberman; Rabbi Daniel Reiser; and Rabbi Zachary Shapiro

From the Editor

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Articles and Poetry

• Parenting in a Brave New World – Kristine Henriksen Garroway, PhD
• Family/Fragments – Michael Satlow, Phd
• “Reclaiming My Time”: The Orphan in Judaism Today – Rabbi Audrey R. Korotkin, PhD
• Why Are Jewish Families Complicated? Ask Jacob – Rabbi Leigh Lerner
• Family Systems and Stress for the Rabbi: Navigating Role Relationships – Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL
• Toward a New Framework for Reform Jewish Views on Polyamory – Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, PhD
• The Trope of Divorce – Rabbi Michele E. Lenke, DMin
• Family Estrangement—Yes, in the Jewish Community – Rabbi Judith Beiner
• From Rabbi to Client: Seeking Support in the Shadow of Pregnancy Loss – Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun, DMin
• When the Unthinkable Happens: Clergy Grieving a Child – Rabbi Ariel Milan-Polisar
• Celebrating Yom HaMishpacha in Israel – Rabbi Stacey Blank

Essays

• On Hannah and Hope: One Rabbi’s Fertility Journey – Rabbi Amy E. Goodman
• “For Me, It’s Just My Life”: Clergy Kids – Gabriella Bellows
• The Joys of Asperger’s: Raising a Jewish Child to Be a Mensch – Rabbi Jordan Parr
• Take My Hand, and We’ll Build Our Tomorrow – Rabbi Zach Shapiro
• The Rabbinate and Family Life – Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz
• Serving a New Community During Loss – Rabbi Maya Y. Glasser
• M’dor L’dor and Around Again – Rabbi Mimi Weisel and Rabbi Michael Shefrin

Maayanot (Primary Sources)

• Poetry by Almog Behar, Asher Reich, Esther Ettinger, Maayan Szternfeld, and Gilad Meiri – translated by Rabbi Stacey Blank

Book Reviews

• Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy – Noam Sachs Zion – Reviewed by Rabbi Dvora Weisberg, PhD
• The Netanyahus – Joshua Cohen – Reviewed by Rabbi Barry Block
• HaBat HaYechidah (The Only Daughter) – A. B. Yehoshua – Reviewed by Rabbi Gili Tzidkiyahu, Review translated from Hebrew by Rabbi Stacey Blank
• The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects – Laura Arnold Liebman – Reviewed by Rabbi Melanie Aron
• Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century – Sarah Abrevaya Stein – Reviewed by Rabbi David J. Zucker, PhD
• The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed – Wendy Lower – Reviewed by Rabbi Beth L. Schwartz
• When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains – Ariana Neumann – Reviewed by Rabbi Lisa Delson
• From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family – June Cummins with Alexandra Dunietz – Reviewed by Rabbi Wendy Pein
• Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love – Dani Shapiro, Reviewed by Rabbi Suzanne Singer

Poetry

• Mothering in the Belly of the Whale – Deborah Bacharach
• For my son, on the occasion of your graduation from elementary school – Deborah Bacharach
• Empty Prayer – Judith Skillman
• Internal Family Systems – Judith Skillman
• Not Spoken Here – Jane Seitel
• Walking Backwards – Dan Alter
• What I Learned – Carol V. Davis
• In Every Generation – Carol V. Davis
• Where I’m from – Diana Rosen
• Day of the Dead for a Non-Mexican – Diana Rosen
• Goldie, Aleha HaShalom – Roger Nash
• An Antique Chuppah – Roger Nash
• Homage – Roger Nash
• Of a Harmonica and Kippah – Roger Nash
• Tools – Roger Nash
• My Dad Playing Ping Pong in the RCAF Rec Centre with Howard Nemerov, 1942 – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Or After That – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Dear Mom – Paul Hostovsky
• Shaving My Father – Rabbi Mark Elber
• Forgive Me – Rabbi Mark Elber
• Prophylactic Contralateral Mastectomy – Josette Akresh-Gonzales
• You Are Now Sharing Your Location – Matthue Roth
• I forgot to buy apples today – Ronda Piszk Broatch
• 9 May 1942—Łódź Ghetto, Poland – Ronda Piszk Broatch
• Self-Portrait with Olga in Łódź – Ronda Piszk Broatch
• my grandfather once threw a gestapo man over a desk – Lonnie Monka
• My Mistake – Lonnie Monka
• What Shall I Say to My Children? – Rabbi Edward Zerin, PhD

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Summer 2022

Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate

Guest Editors: Rabbi Dr. Kari Tuling and Rabbi Mary L. Zamore

From the Guest Co-Editor

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Articles and Poetry

• The Legacy We Leave Behind – Rabbi Sally J. Priesand
• Let my people go that they may serve You – Merle Feld
• Wives to the Rescue: The CCAR’s Epic Decision to Ordain Female Rabbis in 1922 – Rabbi Carole B. Balin, PhD
• Helen Levinthal: An Opportunity for T’shuvah and Justice at HUC-JIR – Rabbi Shirley Idelson, PhD
• Engaging in T’shuvah for Profanation of the Name: Responding to Reports of Systemic Bias and Abuse against Susceptible Groups in the Reform Rabbinate – Rabbi Dr. Kari Tuling
• The Reckoning – Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar
• The Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate – Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, Rabbi Amy Schwartzman, and Rabbi Hara Person
• #MeToo, Rabbis, and the Ethics of Truth-Telling in Public – Rabbi Mira Beth Wasserman, PhD
• Shiru: Miriam’s Model for Leadership – Rabbi Sarah Berman
• B’not Dinah, The Daughters of Dinah: A Look at Our First Years – Rabbah Gila Caine and Rabbi Ayala Miron Translation by Rabbi Efrat Rotem
• For All Women Rabbis at Fifty Years – Rabbi Karen Bender
• Between the Blessings – Rabbi Barbara AB Symons, D. Min.
• Dance of the Zygote – Rabbi Zoe Klein Miles
• Answering Zusya’s Question: Becoming a Rabbi in Latin America – Andrea Kulikovsky
• Being a Lesbian Rabbi Pioneer in Britain – Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah
• The Reluctant Rabbi – Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun, D. Min.
• “It Is Time to Go Inside the Mishkan”: Liturgical Change in the Era of Women Rabbis – Rabbi April Davis
• Women Rabbis’ Understandings of Success: A Study – Rabbi Zari M. Weiss
• A Woman of Valor – Rabbi Séverine Sokol
• A Woman of Clergy – Rabbi Tzvia Jasper

Book Reviews

• Dabri Torah: A Women’s Commentary to the Torah – Edited by Alona Lisitsa – Reviewed by Rabbi Bill Cutter
• Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question: Extending the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik – Benji Levy – Reviewed by Rabbi David Ellenson, PhD
• The Memory Monster – Yishai Sarid – Translated from the Hebrew by Yardene Greenspan – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood – Mark Oppenheimer – Reviewed by Rabbi Charles P. Sherman

Poetry

• Poem for Willy Silber – Paul Hostovsky
• Pitching for the Apostates – Paul Hostovsky
• The Steps – Jane Seitel
• Friday Night Maccabees – Jane Seitel
• As it turns out, a great deal happens in Worms – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Licorice Fern – Carol V. Davis
• Shmita – Carol V. Davis
• Out Early with the Angels – Carol V. Davis
• Diaspora – Judith Skillman
• My Grandmother Rises – Judith Skillman
• The Pinchers – Judith Skillman
• The Alef – Mark Elber
• Moses on Mt. Nebo – Mark Elber
• Noah – Mark Elber
• Goliath – Mark Elber
• Draw Close – Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Ukrainian Sister – Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Viktor Frankl’s Cloak – Kate Powers, PhD

Response to the Spring 2022 Issue

• Wounded and Wounding Healer: More Diagnoses – Rabbi Dr. Scott B. Saulson

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Spring 2022

From the Editor

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Short Ficton

• The White City – Jonathan Wilson
• Plea Bargain – Rabbi Stacey Blank
• Eve, Alive – Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman
• A Sacred Marriage – Mara Fein, PhD
• Eyewitness to the Exodus: Serah bat Asher – Howard Schwartz and Rabbi Lane Steinger
• Job’s Shard – Rabbi Robert J. Ratner, PhD
• Eddi, Of Long Ago – Nancy Lefenfeld
• The Ones Who Survived the Lower East Side – Matthue Roth
• Mrs. Brooks – Enid Shomer

Articles

• Liturgical Responses to Catastrophe: A Preliminary Outline – Rabbi Dalia Marx
• Of Pigs, Pandemics, and Public Relations – Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, PhD
• Rabbi Yochanan: Wounded and Wounding Healer – Rabbi Dan Ornstein
• A Religious Approach to Sexual Behavior for Our Liberal Communities from a Dialogical Jewish Perspective: Mitzvah, R’shut, Isur—A Proposal -Admiel Kosman
• Isaac in the Triumvirate of the Patriarchs – Rabbi Edward S. Treister, EdD
• A Theology of the Personal – Mel Scult

Book Reviews

• Being Jewish Today: Confronting the Real Issues -Tony Bayfield – Reviewed by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Because My Soul Longs for You: Integrating Theology into Our Lives – Edited by Rabbi Edwin C. Goldberg and Rabbi Elaine S. Zecher – Reviewed by Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall
• Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah – Dr. Marcia Falk – Reviewed by Rabbi Suzanne Singer
• Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law – Edited by Simon Rabinovitch – Reviewed by Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis
• Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought – Aaron Koller – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Zoberman

Poetry

• Trigger Warning – S. J. Pearce
• The God of Be Here Now – Deborah Bacharach
• Eve Speaks to Adam about His First Wife – Deborah Bacharach
• Judith in the Red Tent – Deborah Bacharach
• Rosenthal China – Steven Riel
• Time – Rabbi Daniel Polish
• B’rit Olam (Eternal Covenant) – Rabbi Dr. Israel Zoberman
• Herring – Roger Nash
• Matzot – Roger Nash
• Poetry for Mark: I’ve Tried a Few Times Now – Rabbi Scott Fox
• A Prayer for My Soul on My 88th Birthday – Rabbi Norman Hirsh

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Winter 2022

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

• Notes from the Narrow Place: A Theological Reflection on Confinement – Philip Graubart
• Sperm Donation and Surrogacy in the Time When the Judges Judged – David J. Zucker, PhD
• Cancel Culture, Billy Graham, and the Jews: Weighing Nearly Forty-Five Years of a Historical Record – Judith Schindler
• On Accountability and T’shuvah: Two Talmudic Stories of Ostracism – Neil Hirsch
• The Gender Wage Gap in the Reform Movement: An Updated United Data Narrative -Savannah Noray
• T’filat HaAdam and the Maturation of Israeli Reform – Michael Rosen and David Ellenson, PhD
• Experiencing God’s Care – Adam D. Fisher
• Can Spinoza’s Pantheism and Kaplan’s Naturalism Be Compatible with Buber’s Existentialism? – Paul Menitoff
• Isaac and Iphigenia – Elaine Rose Glickman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure – Menachem Kaiser – Reviewed by Wendy Pein
• A Rooster for Asklepios and A Bull for Pluto – Christopher D. Stanley – Reviewed by Joshua Garroway, PhD
• The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust – Rafael Medoff – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Bait Shlishi—Meam Lishvatin Leam (The Third Commonwealth—From a Nation to Tribes to a Nation) – Ari Shavit* – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Shake and Tremor – Deborah Bacharach – Reviewed by Beth Schwartz
• Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley – Yaakov Beasley – Reviewed by Jeffrey Glickman

POETRY

• Have a Nice Trip, See You Next Fall – Matthue Roth
• Samson’s Mother – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Today’s Flutter of Questions – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• I would like a new tree – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Living with It – Judith Skillman
• The Silver Lining – Judith Skillman
• Still – Paul Hostovsky
• The Story of the World – Paul Hostovsky
• Adam . . . and Eve – Diana Rosen
• Tirza Reveals the Miraculous – Julie R. Enszer, PhD
• First Light -Elaine Terranova
• The Road to Gravure – Elaine Terranova
• It Rained All Sukkot – Roger Nash
• Mexican Border, Detention Center – Roger Nash
• Tikkun Olam – Roger Nash
• All the Broken Letters – Sharon Dolin
• Listen to the quiet voice – Sharon Dolin
• We Love the Red Bird Best – Sharon Dolin
• Sestina for a Body Art – Mary Ellen Talley
• In Greensboro – Enid Shomer
• Ascents – Jay Yair Brodbar
• Shechinah – Jay Yair Brodbar
• The Revolution of the Empty Sanctuary in Three Fictional Ancient Letters – Robert J. Ratner, PhD
• Ascension – Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
• Havdalah – Amy Bitterman
• The Whiteness of the Whale – James B. Rosenberg

 

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Fall 2021
Also Available:

Symposium: Disruption in Twenty-First- Century Rabbinical Life

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

• Introduction: Learning How to Canoe the Mountains – Edwin Goldberg, DHL
• The Future of Work: Lessons for Clergy from the COVID-19 Pandemic – Liz P. G. Hirsch
• Disruptive Leadership, Disruptive Partnership – Allison Berry and Laura Abrasley
• Disruptive Technology in Jewish Life and Practice – Daniel B. Medwin, MAJE
• Trends in the Formation and Experience of Community – Yoshi Zweiback
• Creative Disruption: A New Judaism Emerges – Stanley M. Davids
• Sorry, We Don’t Have a Mikveh for You: Adapting Ritual for Gender Inclusion Beyond the Binary – Nikki DeBlosi, PhD, and Bonz Swencionis
• Managing Change in Synagogue Life – Steven Gross
• Disruption: Lifespan – Beth Lieberman
• Paula Ollendorff: Feminist and Liberal Jew – Michael A. Meyer
• Embracing Synagogue Disruption of the “New Now” and Beyond – Paul Kipnes and Julia Weisz
• The Beautiful Pearls of Disruption – Stacy Rigler, MAJE

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek – Reviewed by Stephanie Kramer
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Marshall Goldsmith – Reviewed by Debbie Kaiz Bravo
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown – Reviewed by A. Brian Stoller
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts – Brené Brown – Reviewed by Andi Berlin

POETRY

• Karpas 2021 – Susan Laemmle
• Exegesis – Shai Afsai
• Jerusalem  – Roger Nash

GENERAL ARTICLES

• Art for Our Sake—A Review Essay – Michael Marmur, PhD
• The Biblical K-R-H: Providence, Chance, Synchronicity? – Elliot B. Gertel
• When a B’rachah Is Not a Blessing – Edward S. Treister, EdD
• Masorti and Reform Judaism in an Israeli Legal Cadence: An Analysis and Comparison of Selected Halachic Writings of Rabbis David Golinkin and Moshe Zemer – David Ellenson, PhD, and Michael Rosen

BOOK REVIEWS

• American Jewish Thought Since 1934 – Edited by Michael Marmur and David Ellenson -Reviewed by Joseph A. Skloot, PhD
• Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil – Susan Neiman – Reviewed by Raphael Asher
• The invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel -Alexander Kaye – Reviewed by Geoffrey Dennis
• A New Hasidism: Roots and A New Hasidism: Branches – Edited by Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse – Reviewed by Laura Geller
• Kol Koleinu: Lifting Up Teen Voices – Sophie CokerWhen Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill – Howard Mortman – Reviewed by Dr. Israel Zoberman

POETRY

• Dark Matter – Stephanie Friedman
• The Ram Is Caught – Stephanie Friedman
• Perspective – Elisa Subin
• I Witness – Lonnie Monka
• When the Full Moon – Lonnie Monka
• Chanukah in the North – Roger Nash
• Laissez-Faire (Afghanistan) – Roger Nash
• Poem for Tu BiSh’vat – Steven M. Critelli
• Ben Azai Explains – Daniel Polish
• Ethical Will – Pamela Wax

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