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
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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