CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Spring 2020

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

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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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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Winter 2020

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

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

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Summer 2019

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

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 – Ilana 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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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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Spring 2019

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

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

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

WINTER 2019

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

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

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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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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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SUMMER 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

FOR OUR TEACHERS

• Jeremiah 17:5-8 and the Teachings of the Trees – Andrea L. Weiss
• The Climatic End to N’ilah: The Making of Tradition – Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Forgetting What We Think We Know: One Approach to Sage Narrative – Cathy Schechter
• Borowitz’s B’rachot – Jill Cozen-Harel

FROM THE SOURCES

• Remembering Jochebed – David J. Zucker
• Revelation at Sinai: toward a Feminist Understanding – Chelsea Feuchs
• Yismach Moshe: What Is the Reason for V’shamru in the Shabbat Shacharit Amidah? – Ian Silverman
• Who Knows What? Maimonides on the Philosopher, the Prophet, and Moses – Michael Eli Nutkiewicz

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

• “For the Sake of Zion”? Debating a Post- Nationalist Zionism – David Barak-Goredetsky
• On Self-Images and Jewish Identity – Benjie Gruber
• Renewing Abram’s and Sarai’s Unconditional Covenant or Why Be a Reform Jew? – Matthew A. Kraus
• Our Debt to Martin Luther – Daniel F. Polish

TO BE A RABBI

• TIn Praise of Preaching – David A. Whiman
• The Myth of Monogamy: Opening the Conversation about Polyamory and Judaism – Eliana Fischel

POETRY

• Sarah and Jacob–A Midrash – Henry Jacobson

BOOK REVIEWS

• A Democratic Mind and Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind – by Israel W. Charny, Reviewed by Samuel E. Kraff

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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SPRING 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates
• Foreword – Neal Gold and Josh Weinberg

ARTICLES

FOUNDATIONS: ZIONISM AND ISRAEL

• The Radical Theology of A. D. Gordon – Yari Bar Zuri
• “Twice a Stranger”: The Religion and Politics of Judah Leib Magnes – David Barak-Gorodetsky
• The Land of Israel in Medieval Torah Commentaries: The Case of B’rit Bein HaBetarim – Edward Elkin
• Reishit Tz’michat G’ulateinu: Theological Challenges of the Prayer for Isreal in Liberal Prayer Books – Neal Gold
• A Greater Zionism: What Can Contemporary Zionism Learn From Mordecai M. Kaplan? – Bar Guzi
• The Inordinate Cup – Michael Marmur
• Who Owns the Promised Land> Reflections on the Future of the National Institutions – Lea A Mühlstein
• Connection and Disconnection: The Paradox of Israel Education in the Digital Age – Sivan Zakai

MY ISRAEL: THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS

• Turning Seventy: How Do We Create and Teach a More Realistic Image of Israel? – Leora Ezrachi-Vered
• A Zionism of “And Nevertheless” – Michael A. Meyer
• The History of Chalutzim, a Pioneer of Zionist Education in Reform Jewish Camping – Jerry Kaye
• Reform Jews and Israel: Ayekah? Ayeinu? – Jeffrey K. Salkin
• How to Engage Secular Israeli Jews to Explore Their Religious Identity and Step Into the Synagogue – Kinneret Shiryon

ISRAEL IN MIDRASH AND POETRY

• A New Woman’s Torah, Coming from Zion – Tamar Biala
• Journey: The Poetry of Admiel Kosman – Translation and Introduction by Lisa Katz

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Third – by Yishai Sarid, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman

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WINTER 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

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ARTICLES

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

• I Saw My God at the Café: “Secular” Israeli Women Poets Meet God – Dalia Marx
• Birds Finding Home: Three Women Poets Reconsidered – Sonja Keren Pilz
• Images of Jerusalem in Hebrew Bible – Jacqueline Romm Satlow

FROM THE SOURCES

• On “Blessing” and “Salvation” in the Tanach – Elliot B. Gertel
• On Reading Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination – Elizabeth Bahar
• From Aggadah to Halachah – Gilbert S. Rosenthal
• Purim and Her Sisters – Daniel F. Polish
• The Qur’an on Jews and Judaism – Reuven Firestone

POETRY

• You Dressed Yourself in Glory and Beauty – Adam Fisher
• Under My Zayde’s Tallit – Israel Zoberman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Forevermore & Other Stories – by S.Y. Agnon, Edited and Annotated by Jeffrey Saks, Reviewed by Laurence L. Edwards
• Guidance Not Governance: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa – by Joan S. Friedman, Reviewed by Dvora Weisberg
• The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, a View from Israel – By Ronald Kronish, Reviewed by Eric Yoffie

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