CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
FROM THE EDITOR
MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)
The Maaseh Avraham Avinu Alav HaShalom: Translation, Notes, and Commentary
Bernard H. Mehlman
ARTICLES
Trauma and Recovery: Abraham’s Journey to the Akeidah
Naomi Graetz
Parent’s Torah
Ilana B. Grinblat
Preaching Against the Text: An Argument in Favor of Restoring Leviticus 18 to Yom Kippur Afternoon
Jeffrey Brown
Orthodox Women (Non-)Rabbis
Darren Kleinberg
Shabbat Weddings Revisited: The Pro Side for a Change
Reeve Robert Brenner
An Eye for an Eye—Indeed!
Stephen Passamaneck
Eric Bram: A Portrait of a Rabbi as an Educational Visionary
Samuel K. Joseph and Jeffrey Schein
Why Jews Wear Costumes on Purim
Farhad Arbad and Daniel M. Berry
The “Man” as “Fool-King”: Alexander the Great and the Wisdom of Women
Admiel Kosman
Sh’ma Echad
David L. Kline
BOOK REVIEWS
Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History
David Ruderman Reviewed by Paul J. Citrin
Wisdom of the Heart: The Teachings of Rabbi Ya’akov
of Izbica-Radzyn
Ora Wiskind-Elper Reviewed by Lawrence Kushner
Religious Toleration: Political Theory and Practical Arrangements—A Review Essay
Divided by Faith: Religious Confl ict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Moden Europe
Benjamin J. Kaplan
The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought
Eric Nelson Reviewed by Marc Saperstein
Sacred Treasure—The Cairo Genizah: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic
Mark Glickman Reviewed by Charles H. Middleburgh
POETRY
Waking Yom HaDin
Daniel F. Polish
To Make Sacred Dance Lessons from My Sister
Reeve Robert Brenner
Yom Kippur
Kendrah Raye Whyte
I am that I am
I am that I will be
Alison Burchett
The Man in the Picture
Sinéad Mac Devitt
Naso and Nisuin
Nancy S. Abraham
Surcease
Michael A. Meyer
A Midrash on Deuteronomy 6:5
Norman Hirsh
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