CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Excerpts from the Spring 2015 Issue
Spring 2015
Loss…And Found
FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
Section One: Loss, It’s Complicated
- When Loss = Gain, Amy Scheinerman
Section Two: The Persistence of Absence
- Finding the Right Words in Ministering to the Dying and Bereaved, Barry Block
- Balancing Personal and Professional Loss in Our Rabbinate: A Personal Essay, Brad Bloom
- On Love and Loss: One Rabbi’s Perspective, Sheldon Harr
- They Did Not “Pass,” They Died, David J. Zucker
Section Three: Filling the Void
- “Remember, the Entrance to the Sanctuary is Inside You…,” Karen Soria
- A Temporary Life Among the Disabled, Stephen S. Pearce
- A Theology of Loss: An E-mail Conversation, Sharon Burniston with Ruth Gais
- My Daughter, Liz Rolle
- There Is a God and She Doesn’t Care Whether or Not You Sacrifice Goats to Her, William Blank
Section Four: Reflection in a Distant Mirror
- Lessons on Loss from the Ancient Life of Adam and Eve, Joel M. Hoffman
MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)
- Tur Hoshen Mishpat/Beit Yosef, Hilchot Poalim 331 and 333, Suzanne Singer
FROM THE SOURCES
- A Figure Dimly Seen, Stephen M. Passamaneck
- The Sword Outstretched over Jerusalem: A Puzzling Allusion in the Passover Haggadah, David Arnow
- Kosher, Kashrut, and Little Piggy, Reeve Robert Brenner
ON BEING A RABBI
- “In the Process of Becoming”: A Verse from Scripture Framed by Memories, Everett Gendler
POETRY
- If you believe, Brad Bloom
- Isaacides, Sam Rothberg
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