The Reform Jewish Quarterly Spring 2016

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Spring 2016

FROM THE EDITOR

  • At the Gates

ARTICLES

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

Toward a Vision of a Democratic Jewish State – Marc J. Rosenstein  

AGAINST THE TEXT

  • Preaching against the Text: When the “Good Book” Isn’t – Erica L. Martin
  • Difficult Texts – Suzanne Singer
  • When God Repents – Joe Klein
  • An Un-Fallen Woman – Paul Golomb
  • “May Your Sould Be Bound Up in the Bond of Life”: Toward a New Liturgy for Taharah – Jeremy Weisblatt

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

  • Two Sermons: Text Commentary – Marc Saperstein

FROM THE SOURCES

  • Elijah: The peripatetic Prophet – Mark Verman

ON BEING A RABBI

  • Theists and Non-Theists – Rifat Sonsino

POETRY

  • An Accounting on the Day of Atonement – Daniel E. Bridge
  • Nomenclature – Reeve Robert Brenner

BOOK REVIEWS

  • For This You Were Created: Memoir of an American Rabbi – Samuel Karff, Review by Evan Moffic
  • Worthwhile Books by Worthy Disciples of Mordecai M. Kaplan—A Review Essay – Elliot B. Gertel
    • A Jewish Philosophical Response to the New Atheists— Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens – William E. Kaufman
    • Democratizing Judaism – Jack J. Cohen 

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