CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Spring/Summer 2021

Symposium: Gendered Judaism— Gender-Based Programs in Jewish Life

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

INTRODUCTION

• Gendered Judaism: It’s Complicated – Marla J. Feldman

WHAT IS GENDER? 

• The Future is Nonbinary? It’s Complicated: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Genders, Geographies, and Generations – Dr. Madelaine Adelman
• Gender and Jewish Collectivism: Learning from Women’s Business and Professional Networks – Dr. Nan S. Langowitz

SHE, HE, THEY: FINDING OUR PLACE WITHIN THE SPECTRUM 

• A Group of Her Own: The Creation of Jewish Women’s Organizations – Carole B. Balin, PhD
• Sisterhood, Spirituality, and Social Good: The Power of Women – Marla J. Feldman
• WRN Is (Still) Needed – Mary L. Zamore
• Making Space for Jewish Boys and Men – Daniel S. Brenner
• Men of Reform Judaism: Why It Exists and What It Accomplishes – Larry Krasnoff
• Making Room for “They”: A Yes, And Approach to Nonbinary Inclusion and Single-Gender Spaces – Nikki DeBlosi, PhD, and Bonz Swencionis

GENDER-BASED PROGRAMMING IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY 

• Just Men, Just Women: The Benefits and Tensions of Single-Gender Small Groups in Congregations – Lydia Medwin
• Sacred Encounter: Women’s Rituals and Retreats – Jessica Kessler Marshall
• “Zebulun on Your Journeys and Issachar in Your Tents”: Thoughts on the Role of Temple-Based Brotherhoods Today – Jeremy Barras
• Women’s Seders: Still Rising – Emily E. Segal
• The Men’s Seder – Dan Moskovitz

A NEW GENERATION: GENDER AND YOUTH

• A New Holy Land: Educating Ourselves On and Celebrating Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Jewish Youth – Michelle Shapiro Abraham and Eliana Rubin
• Giving Jewish Girls the Space to Thrive, Push Back, and Push Us All Forward – Tamara R. Cohen
• Kol Koleinu: Lifting Up Teen Voices – Sophie Coker
• Jacob and Esau: Modes of Masculinity for Teenage Boys – Barry H. Block

ARTICLES

• Lessons of Eish Zarah: The Ritual Use of Kaneh-Bosm – Peter Margolis
• From the Slaves of Pharaoh to the Servants of God – Stephen Bertman, PhD
• The “Sin” Of Zelafchad – Ivan Silverman
• The Polemics of Leaven at Passover and Shavuot – Deborah Prinz
• Paul and the Heart of Christian Antisemitism – Dr. Mark Verman

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• A Tribute to My Teacher Rabbi Simon Krinsky: His Poetry Until 1936 – Edward Zerin

BOOK REVIEWS

• What Was—and Is—Hebrew Literature? A Review Essay: The Lady of Hebrew and Her Lovers of Zion – by Hillel Halkin – Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making Edited by Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff – Reviewed by Neal Gold
• Israel: Voices from Within – Edited by Barry Chazan, Shai Chazan, and Yehudit Werchow – Reviewed by Stacey Blank
• Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law – Edited by Simon Rabinovitch – Reviewed by Paul Golomb
• Catch-67 (The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War) – Catch-67 (In Hebrew) – Micah Goodman, – Translated by Eylon Levy, – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• A Thorough History, Yes; A Complete Story, Perhaps Not: A Review Essay: Mavericks Inside the Tent: The Progressive Jewish Movement in South Africa and Its Impact on the Wider Community – Irwin Manoim – Reviewed by Glynis Conyer and Emma Gottlieb, Input and reflections by Julia Margolis
• Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Life in Troubled Times – Michael A. Meyer – Reviewed by Joseph A. Skloot, PhD
• Thinking about God: Jewish Views – Kari H. Tuling – Reviewed by Rebecca Einstein Schorr
• Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History – Jane S. Gerber – Reviewed by Rifat Sonsino, PhD
• Never Alone – Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy – Reviewed by Wendy Pein
• The Vegan Revolution – Richard Schwartz – Reviewed by Elyse Goldstein
• The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets, Then and Now – Nahum Ward-Lev – Reviewed by Lisa Goldstein
• Death, Illness, and Aging: The Inheritance of Our Flesh: A Review Essay: Getting Good at Getting Older – Richard Siegel and Laura Geller – Reviewed by Bill Cutter

POETRY

• And Now, They Hold – Jeffrey A. Summit, PhD
• Origin Story, Revision – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Early and Often – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• The “Lion’s” Grave (Kever HaAri) – Mark Elber
• Isaac – Mark Elber
• II Nehemiah and Primal Yiddish – Richard J. Fein
• Tashlich – Roger Nash
• Candle Lighting for Shabbat – Roger Nash
• Shuckling – Robert Nash
• Haifa Harbor – Michael Linder
• Hagbahah – Israel Zoberman

RESPONSE TO THE SUMMER 2020 SYMPOSIUM ON CONVERSION 

• The Toshav Tzedek: Identity, Weddings, and Co-Officiation: Halachic Structural Connectives – Reeve Robert Brenner

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Fall 2020/Winter 2021

FROM THE EDITOR

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SHORT FICTION

• All the World’s Wealth – Jonathan Wilson
• First They Came for the Torahs – Elizabeth Edelglass
• Alone in the Garden (A Post-Lapsarian Lament) – Ruth Gais
• People of the Stories – Howard Schwartz
• The Metamorphosis of Arye Leib – Simeon J. Maslin
• Fridays After Sunset in Manhattan – Matthue Roth
• The Journey to Shabbat – Stacey Blank
• The Golem of Glendale – Oren J. Hayon
• One Chimney, Two Cats – Roger Nash
• Family Witness – Nancy Lefenfeld
• Temple Ahavath Achim, the Congregation of Brotherly Love – Stephen S. Pearce
• T’reif – Elaine Terranova
• Sexagenarian Means Sixty Years Old Or Aspaclaria Means Mirror Sometimes Cloudy Sometimes Clear – James Stone Goodman
• Vision – James Stone Goodman
• Dark Moss – James Stone Goodman

ARTICLES

• She Said, Catch and Kill, and #MeToo: Lessons for the Jewish Community: A Review Essay – Reviewed by Mary L. Zamore
• The Asterisk Proposal – Elaine Rose Glickman
• Viktor Frankl Gazes Out at the World from a Concentration Camp and Teaches Us How to Utilize That Gaze in Our Own Spiritual Lives – Admiel Kosman
• Mima-amakim: The Adoption and Expansion of Imagery from Psalm 130 in Modern Hebrew Poetry and Culture – Sarah Grabiner
• Being That God Is Being: Concerns about a Trend in Jewish Thought – Elliot B. Gertel
• Ritual and Liturgy as Art Forms – Adam D. Fisher
• Discovering the Tel Zayit Abecedary: A Review Essay – Reviewed by Edward Zerin

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• The SeMaK, A Handbook of Holiness – Translation and Analysis by Steven Lebow
• Avraham Sutzkever: A Jewish Poet’s Poem in 1943 – Translation and Commentary by Israel Zoberman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Married to the Rabbi: Sixty Spouses of Retired Reform Rabbis in Their Own Words – Edited by Naomi Patz and Judith Maslin – Reviewed by David J. Zucker
• A Life of Meaning: Embracing Reform Judaism’s Sacred Path – Edited by Dana Evan Kaplan Reviewed – by David J. Zucker
• Radiance: Creative Mitzvah Living – Danny Siegel – Edited by Neal Gold – Reviewed by Joel Soffin
• The Tragedy Test: Making Sense of Life-Changing Loss: A Rabbi’s Journey – Richard Agler
• The Mystery of Suffering and the Meaning of God: Autobiographical and Theological Reflections – Anson Hugh Laytner Reviewed – by Daniel S Alexander
• The Evolution of Kaplan’s Leadership and Radical Religious Hope: Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan – Edited by Mel Scult – Reviewed by Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
• The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia – Stephanie Butnick, Leil Leibovitz, and Mark Oppenheimer – Reviewed by Wendy Pein
• The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God –Mark Sameth – Reviewed by Elaine Rose Glickman

POETRY

• On Rising – Dina Elenbogen
• First Fruit – Dina Elenbogen
• What We Can’t Give Back – Dina Elenbogen
• Elegy: A Refusal – Dina Elenbogen
• Moses and His Ultimatum – Philip Terman
• Unpainted Pictures – Judith Skillman
• Gutturals – Judith Skillman
• My Mother Makes Challah – Roger Nash
• L’Chayim – Roger Nash
• In Praise of Blurs – Roger Nash
• Oh, Worrisome Night – Edward Zerin
• When I Am Down and Low – Edward Zerin
• Ruach, Wind, Spirit – Herbert Bronstein

RESPONSE TO THE SUMMER 2020 SYMPOSIUM ON CONVERSION 

• The Toshav Tzedek: Identity, Weddings, and Co-Officiation: Halachic Structural Connectives – Reeve Robert Brenner

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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Summer 2020

FROM THE EDITOR

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ARTICLES

CONVERSION

• Introduction – Kari Tuling
• The Sacred Journey of Gerut: Conversion as a Ritual Process – Ruth Adar
• Conversion in Tanach, Talmud, and Codes: Inventing Our Process – Marci N. Bellows
• Making Souls – Edward Elkin
• Fifty Years of Remeeting Sinai Partners – Stephen J. Einstein
• Reform Rabbis Should Follow Hillel, Not Shammai – Allen S. Maller
• Tomorrow: A Conversion Prayer – Israel Zoberman
• Becoming a Jew—The Long Journey Home – Vickie CarrollKeeping the Gates: A Reflection on Being a Convert and a Rabbi -Nikki Lyn DeBlosi
• Converting to What? A Jewish Afrolatina Story – Ellen Lippmann and Imani Chapman
• “We Endorse the Attitude of ‘Joy and Encouragement’”: Challenges to Conversion Policy in Jamaica in the Early Twenty-First Century -Dana Evan Kaplan
• T’vilah – Gaylia R. Rooks

* * * * *

• “Am I a Man or a Jerk?” Reflections on the Art and Life of Saul Bellow -Samuel E. Karff
• The Man in the Gray Flannel Loincloth: Joseph, the First Modern? – Leigh Lerner
• The Rabbinic Spouse in Contemporary American Fiction: The Rabbi’s Wife Plays at Murder and Other Tales Told Out of Shul – David J. Zucker
• “Guzzlers and Gluttons Will Be Impoverished”: The Rhetoric of Wealth, Poverty, and Their Causes in the Book of Proverbs – Neal Gold
• Yom Kippur as Sacred Drama – Mark H. Levin
• Contemplating Sleep at 85 – David L. Kline

BOOK REVIEWS

• Inscribed: Encounters with the Ten Commandments – Collected and Edited by Oren Hayon, Reviewed by Bill Cutter
• Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates – Edited by Aaron J. Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov, Reviewed by David Ellenson
• Remix Judaism: Preserving Tradition in a Diverse World – Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Reviewed by Andrea Steinberger
• Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas – Yaacob Dweck, Reviewed by Laurence Edwards
• Haminhara (The Tunnel) – Abraham B. Yehoshua, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Tiemaon (Astonishment) – Aharon Appelfeld, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman

POETRY

• oh Franky—if only you could be here to see this – Lonnie Monka
• Sodom and Gomorrah, the Night Before – Deborah Bacharach
• sodom and gomorrah, the day after – Deborah Bacharach
• On Display – Enid Shomer
• The Wedding – Enid Shomer
• Chuppah – Miriam Flock
• Psalm 6:6: Times When the Kitel Is Worn – Daniel Polish
• A Wartime Baker – Roger Nash
• For a Man Whose Lifetime Was Spring – Roger Nash
• Bookmarks – Roger Nash
• The Gravity of a Table – Baruch November

RESPONSE TO THE SPRING 2020 ISSUE

• A Meditation on Psalm 27 – A. Brian Stoller

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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Spring 2020

FROM THE EDITOR

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ARTICLES

HALACHIC THEORY

• What Do We Mean When We Say, “We Are Not Halachic”? – Leon A. Morris
• Halachah in Reform Theology from Leo Baeck to Eugene B. Borowitz: Authority, Autonomy, and Covenantal Commandments – Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
• The CCAR Responsa Committee: A History – Joan S. Friedman
• Reform Halachah and the Claim of Authority: From Theory to Practice and Back Again – Mark Washofsky
• Is a Reform Shulchan Aruch Possible? – Alona Lisitsa
• An Evolving Israeli Reform Judaism: The Roles of Halachah and Civil Religion as Seen in the Writings of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism – David Ellenson and Micahel Rosen
• Aggadic Judaism – Edwin Goldberg
• Talmudic Aggadah: Illustrations, Warnings, and Counterarguments to Halachah – Amy Scheinerman
• Halachah for Hedgehogs: Legal Interpretivism and Reform Philosophy of Halachah – Benjamin C. M. Gurin
• The Halachic Canon as Literature: Reading for Jewish Ideas and Values – Alyssa M. Gray

APPLIED HALACHAH

• Communal Halachic Decision-Making – Erica Asch
• Growing More Than Vegetables: A Case Study in the Use of CCAR Responsa in Planting the Tri-Faith Community Garden – Deana Sussman Berezin
• Yoga as a Jewish Worship Practice: Chukat Hagoyim or Spiritual Innovation? – Liz P. G. Hirsch and Yael Rapport
• Nursing in Shul: A Halachically Informed Perspective – Michal Loving
• Can We Say Mourner’s Kaddish in Cases of Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Nefel? – Jeremy R. Weisblatt
• When Halachah Seems Silent: A Male Survivor in the Mikveh – Paul Jacobson

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Story of Dinah: Rape and Rape Myth in Jewish Tradition. – Gavi S. Ruit, Reviewed by Rachel Bearman
• A State at Any Cost (The Life of David Ben-Gurion) – Tom Segev; translated by Haim Watzman, A State at All Costs (David Ben-Gurion’s Life), Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Doing Business in America – Edited by Hasia R. Diner, Reviewed by Jeffrey Glickman
• To Dwell in Your House: Vignettes and Spiritual Reflections on Caregiving at Home – Susan Freeman, Reviewed by Rochelle Robins
• Opening Your Heart with Psalm 27: A Spiritual Practice for the Jewish New Year – Debra J. Robbins, Reviewed by Barry H. Block

POETRY

• Shalom Bayit – Roger Nash
• Playing the Saw – Roger Nash
• Sitting Shivah – Diana Rosen
• Haiku for the Fashion Minded – Diana Rosen
• To You – Sharon Dolin
• A dream that has not been interpreted is like a letter that has not been read – Sharon Dolin
• Ruth 1:17 – Julie R. Enszer
• Cake – Julie R. Enszer
• Not the End of the World – Paul Hostovsky
• Yahrzeit – Paul Hostovsky
• After Psalm 23 – Charles Bernstein
• A Mourner’s Kaddish – Charles Bernstein
• Stars Bolt the Sky in Place – Patty Seyburn
• No, I’m the Boy’s Mother – Patty Seyburn
• Haiku/Senryu – Bruce J. Pfeffer

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Winter 2020

FROM THE EDITOR

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ARTICLES

• #JewishWomenToo: Rape and Sexual Harassment in the Bible – Micah Streiffer and Judith Schindler
• How to Be a Best Friend? Ask Abraham – Leigh Lerner
• Mean Rabbis – Elaine Rose Glickman
• The Experience of God – Kenneth D. Roseman
• Public Preacher/Private Poet: Poetry by Harvey J. Fields – William Cutter
• The Poet’s Tallit: Prayer Shawls in Poems by Avraham Shlonksy, Yehuda Amichai, Myra Sklarew, and Yehoshua November – Naomi B. Sokoloff
• A Buber Revival Is Coming–But Maybe for the Wrong Reasons: A Review Essay – Reviewed by Neal Gold
• Redemption and the State of Israel: How Liturgy on Redemption is Handling Zionism – Michael Lewis and Samuel Stern
• A Jewish Theology of Climate Change – Glenn Jacob
• Worshiper of Idols or Ideal Worshiper: Jethro in the M’chilta D’Rabbi Yishmael – Steven Lebow
• Josephus on the Begetting of Samson: A Treasury of Biblical Tropes – David J. Zucker
• Theological “Black Holes” in Religions and the Ways They Lead to Heaven (or Hell) – Admiel Kosman
• The Babylonian Connection: What Does Judaism Owe to Babylon and Persia? – Richard Damashek

MAAYANOT (Primary Sources)

• From the Shtetl to the Kibbutz: Translated Excerpts from a Forgotten Zionist Tzene U’rene – Translated by Lenn Schramm, introduction and commentary by Netta Schramm

BOOK REVIEWS

• Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings – Marcia Falk, Reviewed by Suzanne Singer
• The Hospice Team: Who We Are and How We Care – Chaim J. Wender and Patricia E. Morrison, Reviewed by Jonathan R. Katz
• Climbing a Question – Roger Nash, Reviewed by Bruce Block

POETRY

• Some Things I Know About My Mother – Elaine Terranova
• Er Lakht – Elaine Terranova
• Babi Yar Witness, 1941 – Elaine Elinson
• My Grandmother’s Waltz – Judith Skillman
• Margot Again  – Judith Skillman
• Aerie – Judith Skillman
• Hineini – Stephanie Friedman
• Tishah B’Av in Chicago: A Meditation on Eichah, Chapter 5 – Stephanie Friedman
• Latkes – Carol Dorf
• Bitter Honey – Carol Dorf
• Seven Hundred Wives – Lori Levy
• Of Magic and Superstition – Carol V. Davis
• Puttin Wants the Jews Back – Carol V. Davis
• Lot’s Daughters  – Carol V. Davis
• Nursery Rhyme – Carol V. Davis
• Matchmaker – Carol V. Davis
• My Father Visits – Carol V. Davis

RESPONSE

• Response to the Summer 2019 Issue – Israel Zoberman

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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Fall 2019

Spiritual and Mental Wellness 

FROM THE GUEST EDITORS

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ARTICLES

SELF-CARE IN TIMES OF TRAUMA

• • When the Rabbi Feels Trauma – Paul Kipnes
  • Unconsumed: Emotional Resilience through Firey Times – Stephanie Kramer
  • Timeline of a Trigger: A Personal Journey Toward Healing Complex PTSD – Paul Jacobson
  • Healing from Pain – Stephen Robbins
  • Thoughts on a Living God – Richard Agler

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND LIFELONG WELLNESS

• • Embodied Spiritual Practices: Cultivating Sense Perceptions as Gateways to Holiness – Myriam Koltz
  • Receiving and Giving Love: A Meditation on the Sh’ma and Its Blessings – Shelia Peltz Weinberg
  • A Jewish Cleric’s Meditation for Self-Care and A Jewish Cleric’s Meditation at a Moment of Challenge – Alden Solovy
  • Talmud Torah as Spiritual Practice – Jonathan P. Slater
  • Chevruta as Spiritual Practice – Beth Huppin
  • Slumbering at Sinai: Sleep as a Spiritual Practice – Jo Hirschmann
  • Divorce: A Different Story – Lisa J. Grushcow
  • Embracing Reality: Spiritual Preparation for Living with Dementia – Dayle A. Friedman
  • When the Rabbi Is Also the Caregiver – Eva Robbins

THE PROFESSIONAL PURSUIT OF SPIRITUAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

• • Minding Our Behavioral Health for the Sake of Spiritual Fulfillment – Laura Stein
  • Creating a Somatic Psychospiritual Practice – Karen Lee Erlichman
  • Watering the Earthly Garden with Sacred Flow: Tending to the Mental Health of Our Jewish Communities – Nancy E. Epstein and Elisa Goldberg

ADDICTION AND RECOVERY

• • Addiction Is a Spiritual Malady and Judaism Is a Spiritual Solution – Mark Borovitz
  • Addiction and Recovery in the Minds of the Rabbis – Annie Belford
  • Married to a Sex Addict – Anonymous
  • A Daily Reprieve: Addiction, Recovery, and Finding God – Michael Richker
  • Lost in TV Land – Monique Mayer
  • With the Blink of an Eye, I Finally Saw the Light – Edwin Goldberg

MAAYANOYT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• • T’filah Zakah:  A Yom Kippur Eve Self-Evaluation from Head to Toe

BOOK REVIEWS

• • And God Created Recovery: Jewish Wisdom to Help You Break Free from Your Addiction, Heal Your Wounds, and Unleash Your Inner Faith – Ilan Glazer, Reviewed by Laurie E. Green
  • Recovery, the 12 Steps and Jewish Spirituality: Reclaiming Hope, Courage and Wholeness – Paul Steinberg, Reviewed by Michael Shefrin
  • The Talmud of Relationships – Amy Scheinerman, Reviewed by Paul Golomb
  • Mourning and Mitzvah: A Guided Journey for Walking the Mourner’s Path through Grief to Healing, revised and expanded 25th anniversary edition – Anne Brener, Reviewed by William (Bill) Cutter

POETRY

• • Ben Zoma Asks, “Who Is a Hero?” – Daniel Polish
  • On Studying Sacred Texts – Judith Offer
  • Elon Musk, I Trusted You with My Bionic Heart– Matthue Roth
  • The Day God Destroys Sodom and Gomorrah – Deborah Bacharach
  • The Ox – Deborah Bacharach
  • Passed Out under His Daughter’s Hands, Lot Dreams of His Wife – Deborah Bacharach
  • Pregnant with the Dead – Susan Rich
  • First Graduate School Reception, September – Susan Rich
  • A Poem for Mr. Raphael Siv at the Irish Jewish Museum – Susan Rich
  • Variations on a Horizon (Autumn 2018) – Marc Nieson
  • Psalm 51: Variations – Ken Seide
  • Tzaddik – Jack M. Freedman

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FROM THE EDITOR

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ARTICLES

• Judaism and the Political World – Seth M. Limmer
• The Public Political Theology of Stephen S. Wise – Mark A. Raider
• Politics and the Rabbinate: A Medieval Perspective – Jennifer Grayson
• An Unsung Hero of Black-Jewish Relations: Lessons Learned from Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum in Deepening Understanding and Relationships Across the Divide – Judith Schindler
• What It Might Look Like to Be a Rabbi of the Radical Middle – Matthew D. Gewirtz
• The Fox News Chavurah: An Exploration of Congregational Audacious Hospitality – Illana G. Baden
• Civil Discourse in a Reform Congregational Setting – Richard Kellner and Donald Sylvan
• Forty-Nine Reasons Why and Why Not: Learning to Disagree Constructively: A Review Essay -Daniel Reiser
• The Silent Ones Among You: How the Left’s Good-versus-Evil Approach to Politics Suppresses Dissent and Undermines Pluralism – A. Brian Stoller
• Leading Towards Justice – David Stern
• A Colleague’s Report from the Field: the Broken Shards That Drive Us – Andi Berlin
• Two Rabbis, One Partnership – Robert Nosanchuk and Josh Caruso
• Training Rabbis for Social Change and Transformation – Meir Lakein and Jeannie Appleman
• Engaging Literary Voices to See the Universal in the Particular – David H. Aaron
• The Changing Culture of Social Action – Al Vorspan z”l and Maral J. Feldman

POLITICS AND THE RABBINATE BOOK REVIEWS

• Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach – Leonora Tubbs Teasdale, Reviewed by Edwin Goldberg
• Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926 to 1963 – James L. Moses, Reviewed by Barry H. Block
• Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder, 1933-1945 – March Saperstein, Reviewed by David Ellenson
• A Precious Heritage: Rabbinical Reflections on God, Judaism, and the World in the Turbulent Twentieth Century, Rabbi Sidney Ballon, Selected Sermons 1936-1974 – Edited, Introductions, and Notes by Yeshaya Douglas Ballon, Foreword by Murray E. Simon, Reviewed by Marc Saperstein
• Zionism vs. Judaism (Can the Jewish State Survive the Jewish Religion?) – Arye Carmon – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman

POLITICS AND THE RABBINATE POETRY

• What Rough Beast – Tony Barnstone
• The White Temple – Tony Barnstone
• The Ocean Diner – Tony Barnstone

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Day I Met Father Isaac at the Supermarket: Lessons in How to Live from the Jewish Tradition and Finding God in Unexpected Places: Wisdom for Everyone from the Jewish Tradition – Jack Riemer, Reviewed by Elliot B. Gertel
• The Commentators’ Bible: Genesis — The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot – Edited, Translation, and Annotation by Michael Carasik, Reviewed by David J. Zucker
• Judas – Amos Oz, Translated by Nicholas de Lange, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Jews and Words – Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman

POETRY

• Vistula Theatre – Jonathan Garfinkel
• Seed Packet – Roger Nash
• The Bone Cave – Roger Nash
• A Full Moon Lights Up Rooms – Roger Nash
• MEANings – Lawrence Mark Lesser
• Hester Street, Lower East Side – Kim Roberts
• Yahrzeit – Charles van Heck
• Land of Israel – Brandon Marlon
• Annus Mirabilis – Brandon Marlon

Response to Victor Shepherd’s “Fackenheim” – Shelly Zimmerman

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Spring 2019

FROM THE EDITOR

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ARTICLES

• Introduction – B. Elka Abrahamson
• God in the Biblical Imagination: Syntactic Form and Theological Meaning – Andrea L. Weiss
• The Sin of Self-Slavery: The Role of the Egyptians in the Exodus Narrative – Daniel Kirzane
• Reform from the Outset: Innovation in Torah – Barry H. Block
• Jeroboam: A Sinner or a Social Leader and Religious Reformer? – Dalia Marx
• “‘Look what I’ve found,’ said Kohelette”: Texts that Talk Back to Kohelet 7 – Wendy Zierler
• A Chanukah Thesis – Matthew A. Kraus
• Is There a Jewish Version of the “Just War” Doctrine? Some Notes on the Nature of Halachic Interpretation  – Mark Washofsky
• The Talmud Bavli’s Intertextual Invention of Benjamin the Tzaddik – Alyssa M. Gray
• The Deposition of Rabban Gamliel: A Rabbinic Transition — Analysis of Babylonian Talmud B’rachot 27b–28a – Joshua Fixler
• Cold Comfort: A Feminist Reading of Moses in the Beit Midrash of Rabbi Akiba. – Dvora Weisberg
• The 1946 Exchange between Rav Tzair (Chaim Tchernowitz) and Rav Binyamin (Yehoshua Radler-Feldman) on Bi-Nationalism and the Creation of a Jewish State – David Ellenson
• How Liturgy Tells the Truth – Lawrence A. Hoffman
• States of Being, States of Being Jewish – Michael Marmur
• Rabbi Dr. Aaron D. Panken: Teaching and Modeling Leadership – Rick Jacobs
• Chavruta – Jan Katzew

BOOK REVIEW

• Kings III – Yochi Brandes Reviewed by Israel Zoberman

POETRY

• Jewish Cemetery, Wertheim – Roger Nash
• Beginning Again – Roger Nash
• Preemie – Roger Nash
• Remembering Her Father’s Birthday – Diana Rosen
• Everything Is Territory – Diana Rosen
• Autobiography, First Chapter – Diana Rosen
• Patagonian Pilgrimage – Daniel Fink
• Woods Walking – Adam Fisher

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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WINTER 2019

FROM THE EDITOR

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ARTICLES

THEOLOGIES FOR OUR TIMES

• Why God Created Miracles in the Past but Not Now – Rifat Sonsino
• Why God Created Miracles in the Past but Not Now: A Response – Clifford E. Librach
• Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism: Arthur A. Cohen’s Critique of Mordecai M. Kaplan’s Theology – William E. Kaufman
• Evil in the Thought of Israel Salanter and Rachel Adler – David Benjamin Bloom
• Emil L. Fackenheim: Gratitude for the Gift He Was – Victor Shepherd
• Reading between the Lines: The Unwritten Story of the Babylonian Exile – Richard Damashek
• This Dor Swings Both Ways: Judah’s Bisexuality – Mark Sameth
• Rabbi as Symbolic Moral Exemplar – Karen L. Fox
• The Present and Future of Reform Aesthetics and Identity: Performadoxy and Emergent Custom – Andy Kahn
• How the Status of Reform Judaism in Israel Has Affected Reform Jewish Perceptions of Zionism and Israel – Dana Evan Kaplan
• Seeking the Comforts of Hope – Anthony D. Holz

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• Sacred Pearls: The Rabbi and People Business From the Anthology From Our Old Treasure – B. Yeushson (Third in Series) Introduction and Translation by Edward Zerin

BOOK REVIEWS

• Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom – Ariel Burger Reviewed by Joseph Meszler
• Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary – Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Reviewed by David Ellenson

POETRY

• On First Waking – Adam Sol
• Ducts and Conduits – Adam Sol
• Autobiography of a Puddle – Roger Nash
• The Distance Between Us – Roger Nash
• Pilgrimage to the SIte of a Killing Field, Cambodia – Roger Nash
• Elul – Y. Adler Translated from the Yiddish by Jessica Kirzane
• Bontsha the Silent in the Afterlife Kaddish in Monessen – Leah Rachel Berkowitz
• Mercy Has Thirteen Faces Tashlich – Susie Petersiel Berg
• On a Cantor’s Breath – Charles van Heck

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

FALL 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

PAY EQUITY WITHIN THE REFORM MOVEMENT

• Introduction – Guest Editors: Marla J. Feldman and Mary L. Zamore
• Gender Pay Equity: A Textual Exploration for Justice – Mary L. Zamore
• Responsum on Equal Pay – Jonathan Cohen on behalf of the CCAR Responsa Committee
• Pay Equity in the Reform Movement: An Unfinished History of Policy and Action – Marla J. Feldman
• Women Cantors and Dollars in 1976 – Barbara J. Ostfeld
• What the Latest Reform Movement Rabbinic Salary Study Reveals about the Gender Wage Gap – Michael J. Gan and Natalie C. Moffett
• The Gender Wage Gap in the Reform Movement: A United Data Narrative – Elise Gould
• What Is Possible: Striving for Gender Pay Equity for Congregational Employees – Esther L. Lederman and Amy Asin
• Embedding Pay Equity into the Congregational Culture – Paul Kipnes
• Rewriting the Rules and Breaking the Wage Gap Silence – Shifra Bronznick and Emma Bronznick Goldberg
• Where Do We Go from Here? Achieving Pay Equity on Our Pulpits – Richard Jacobs

FROM THE SOURCES

• But is it Fair? Toward a Talmudic Theory of Value and Compensation – Paul Golomb

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• “The Meaning of History”: A 1946 Address by Leo Baeck on the British Broadcasting Company German Language Program Translation and Introduction – Gabriel E. Padawer and Benard H. Mehlman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Desertion, Deception, and Delusion: Synagogue Sociology in Detroit and in Other Cities? – A Review Essay Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit – by Lila Corwin Berman Squelched: The Suppression of Murder in the Synagogue – by T. V. LoCicero, Reviewed by Elliot B. Gertel
• The Mossad Messiah – by Leigh Lerner, Reviewed by Robert Orkand

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