CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
CONTENTS
Symposium Issue on Jewish Perspectives on Finances and the Marketplace
FROM THE EDITOR
At the Gate – בשער
ARTICLES
Introduction: Jewish Perspectives on Finances and the Marketplace
Karyn D. Kedar
Full Faith and Credit: Jewish Views on Debt and Bankruptcy
Edward Elkin
Housing Transactions, Transparency, and Halachah: A Proposal
Jonathan Cohen and A. Brian Stoller
Tzedakah, Recession, and Social Policy
CCAR Responsa Committee
Mark Washofsky, Chair
The Rabbi as Philanthropic Advisor
Ellen Flax
Ethical Priorities in Giving Tzedakah
Ruth Adar
The Biblical Debtor’s Release (Deuteronomy 15:1-3): Bankruptcy It Isn’t-Or Is It?
Robin Nafshi
Money, Schism, and the Creation of American Reform Judaism
Dan Judson
The Decline and Fall of the Interest Ban
Hillel Gamoran
POETRY
In the Black Night Vayishlach
John L. Rosove
BOOK REVIEWS
The Legacy of Our Reform Kibbutzim: Can We Renew the Dream- A Review Essay
Light in the Arava? Yahel: Dialogue and a Joint Undertaking between the Kibbutz Movement and the Reform Movement
Gidon Elad
Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel’s Reform Kibbutzim
William F.S Miles
Reviewed by Debra Goldstein
Jewish Law in Transition
Hillel Gamoran Reviewed by Herbert Bronstein
An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible
Walter Brueggemann Reviewed by Mordecai Schreiber
The Sights Along the Harbor
Harvey Shapiro Reviewed by Adam D. Fisher
The Modern Men’s Torah Commentary: New Insights from Jewish Men on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions
Edited by Jeffrey K. Salkin Reviewed by Jeffrey Brown
The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism
Edited by Danya Ruttenberg Reviewed by Ruth Gelfarb
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