Inspiration and Opportunity: The Arts in Jewish Life (Winter 2013)

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

CONTENTS
Symposium Issue on Inspiration and Opportunity: The Arts in Jewish Life

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gates Winter 2013

ARTICLES

Introduction to This Issue from the Guest Editors
Eve Ben-Ora and Vicki Reikes Fox

GENESIS/B’REISHIT: A NEW VIEW

A Gift to the Community: The Los Angeles Temple Isaiah’s Festival of Jewish Artisans
Marcia Reines Josephy and Meira Josephy

Becoming a Modern Judaica Artist: A Stranger in a Strange Land No More
Gary Rosenthal

Painting by Numbers: Reporting on the Emergence of Modern Jewish Art
Tal Gozani

Visual Art as a Spiritual Practice
Miriam Terlinchamp

EXODUS/SH’MOT: ART AS A GUIDE TO WHERE WE ARE GOING

A Nu Way Forward: Reaching Jewish Young Adults in Creative Ways
Anne Hromadka

The New Authentics: Artists of a Post-Jewish Generation
Yael Rooks-Rapport

Towards a Taxonomy of the “Cultural Jew”
Richard A. Siegel

Choosing Art for the Jewish Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy
Joel Schwartzman

LEVITICUS/VAYIKRA: ARTISTS’ VOICES

Art and Prayer
Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik

Engaging Community
Mark Hurvitz

Collaboration and Participation
Flora Rosefsky

Transformative Experience
Peretz Wolf-Prusan

Lisa Sloane

Spiritual Journey
Yehudis Barmatz-Harris

The Passion of a Rabbi and Artist
Josh Plaut

An Artists’ Beit Midrash
Words of Introduction
Leon A Morris

The Artists’ Words
Barbara Freedman

Susan Kaplow

Larry Frankel

Rachel Kanter

Bezalel’s Legacy
Richard McBee

NUMBERS/B’MIDBAR: CHALLENGE AND PERSPECTIVE

Text and Commentary: Contemporary Jewish Art
Ori Z. Soltes

Jew as (German) Product: Rubber Ducks and Other Commodifi cations of Jewish Identity
Michal S. Friedlander

The Presence of What Is Absent: Art as Inquiry into Jewish Text
Adina Allen and Pat Allen

Visual Midrash: The Role of Art and Artists in Our Seminaries
Jean Abarbanel and Anne Hromadka

Jewish Art and Artists in the Seminary Setting
Jean Bloch Rosensaft and Laura Kruger

Faith in Irony: Judaica Today
Daniel Belasco

DEUTERONOMY/D’VARIM: MOVING FORWARD CREATIVELY

On the Path to Jewish Universalism: Art and Literature in Modern Hebrew Culture
William Cutter

Mishkan and Sukkah: Toward Jewish Sacred Space
Amy Reichert

Daring to Alter a Perfect Twentieth-Century Sanctuary to Meet the Needs of the Twenty-First Century
Roy A. Walter and Garey F. Marks

Transforming a Congregation through the Arts
Cheri Ellowitz

Faith in Art: Visual Culture and the Future of Judaism
Lance J. Sussman

POETRY

I Was at Sinai
Rick Lupert

Exercises in Uncertainty that Resolve in Embrace
James Stone Goodman

The Story of a Ring
Navah-Tehila

BOOK REVEWS

Blood, Resurrection, and New Paradigms in Dialogue—A Review Essay
Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews

Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson

Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians

David Biale

Reviewed by Daniel F. Polish

I Have a Story to Tell You
Edited by Seemah C. Benson

Reviewed by Susan Jacobson


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