The Reform Jewish Quarterly Fall 2013

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

Section One: Progressive Judaism Around the World: Paradigms of Peoplehood

• “Like Oil and Water”: Progressive Judaism and the Nations of the World, Lawrence A. Englander, Guest Editor
• A Perspective from Europe, Walter Rothschild
• Goulash Judaism: The Case of Hungary, Ferenc Raj
• Beit Warszawa, Jewish Music, and Shabbes, Haim Beliak
• Czecho-Slovak Jewry, Andrew Goldstein
• Growth of Dutch Progressive Judaism: A Chutzpah, Menno ten Brink
• Reform Judaims in Switzerland, Reuven Bar-Ephraim
• A Sephardi in Sepharad, Rifat Sonsino
• “All in the Family”: What Binds Together and Separates Reform Jews Worldwide, Joel D. Oseran
• Reform Judaism in the South Pacific, John Levi
• Progressive Judaism in Britain: A Personal View, Julia Neuberger
• “We Were Only a Handful, and We Had a Dream of Rejuvenating Religion in the State of Israel,” Ada Zavidov, Translation by Evan Cohen
• “First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin,” Meir Azari, Translation by Baruch Geffen and Adam Azari

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES

• The Tent Peg Business, Revisited, Lawrence Kushner and Noa Kushner
• Synagogue Work Will Drive You Crazy, Schizophernogenic Inevitabilities in Congregational Practice, David A. Whiman
• Yom HaAtzma-ut as a Religious Holiday: A Note Regarding the CCAR and the American Jewish Year Book, Joel B. Wolowelsky
• Understanding the Two Creation Narratives in Genesis: Just How Many Beginnings Were There?, Daniel M. Berry
• The Garden of Eden: Peeling Back the Layers to Reveal the Simplicity of the Story, Michael D. Oblath
• The Binding of Isaac (A Different Version), Mordecai Roshwald
• Throwaway Women: Ruth as Response, David J. Zucker

By Avi Magid

POETRY

• Rabbi Stripped Naked, Daniel Meltz
• Minchah, Steven Sher
• Refer to Maker, Elias Lieberman
• Death, Be My Teacher, Ben Kamin
• Kaddish at Tiananmen Square, Israel Zoberman
• Shavuot Song, Kendrah Raye Whyte
• Jerusalem Word Play, Reeve Robert Brenner

BOOK REVIEWS

• A Congregation, A Rabbi, and A Religious Movement – A Review Essay, Elliot B. Gertel
  • Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago, Tobias Brinkman
  • Max Lilienthal: The Making of an American Rabbinate, Bruce L. Ruben
  • The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Disciples and the Creation of an American Relgious Movement, Michael R. Cohen
• The JPS Bible Commentary – Ruth, Commentary by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Reviewed by David J. Zucker