New Visions of Jewish Community (Spring 2011)

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

CONTENTS

Symposium Issue on New Visions of Jewish Community

ARTICLES

From the Editor: At the Gates – בשערים

Introduction to This Issue from the Guest Editors
Alan Henkin and Paul Kipnes

A Demographer Considers the Twenty-First Century
Bruce A. Phillips

Keeping the Glass Half Full: Reinvigorating American Reform Judaism
Lance J. Sussman

Future of the Denominations: Analysis and Possibilities
Amy L. Sales

Shifting Landscapes: The Response of Modernity to Faith, Social Advocacy, and Demographic Change
Stephen S. Pearce

In this Time, In This Place: Establishing Your Voice and Defi ning Your Message
Steven Windmueller

Building and Enhancing Religious Community Online
Laura A. Baum

Moving Beyond the Limited Reach of Current “Social Media” Approaches: Why Jewish Digital Communities Require Rich and Remixable Narrative Content
Owen Gottlieb

Just Beyond the Horizon
Richard F. Address

Judaism 2111
Avi Schulman

POETRY

Biographic Bridge
Navah-Tehila

Sending My First Chumash to Sheimos
Norman Lipson

God’s Toolbox
James B. Rosenberg

BOOK REVIEWS

The Architecture of Louis Kahn and Percival Goodman— A Review Essay
Louis I. Kahn’s Trenton Jewish Community Center
Susan G. Solomon
Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the
Midcentury American Synagogue
Susan G. Solomon
Reviewed by Elliot B. Gertel

Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Elie Kaunfer Reviewed by Cathy L. Felix

Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation
Naomi Seidman Reviewed by Laurence Edwards

When I Sleep and When I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn
Dalia Marx Reviewed by David Ariel-Joel

The Man Who Knew God: Decoding Jeremiah
Mordecai Schreiber Reviewed by David J. Zucker

 


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