The Reform Jewish Quarterly Fall 2012

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

CONTENTS

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