The Reform Jewish Quarterly Spring 2017

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

FROM THE EDITOR

ARTICLES

THINKING ABOUT REFORM LITURGY

  • The Problem with Petitionary Prayer – Seymour Prystowsky
  • The Problem with Petitionary Prayer: A Responce – Peter S. Knobel
  • Theology of the Siddur—Reflections – Stephen M. Wylen
  • It’s the Theology, My Beloved – Mark H. Sameth
  • Spinoza, Mishkan HaNefesh, and Us – Edwin Cole Goldberg

ON BEING A RABBI

  • The Eye Cannot See Itself: Designed Blindness in Rabbinic Practice – David A. Whiman
  • Deep Calling to Deep: Religious Imagination and Rabbinic Mentoring – Steven G. Sager

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

  • A Jewish Knight in Shining Armor – David S. Goldstein

FROM THE SOURCES

  • A Rumination on a Creational Covenant, the Outstretched Arm of Abraham, and the Death of Sarah – J. Jonathan Schraub
  • EzekielShame and Blame – David J. Zucker and Moshe Reiss
  • The Other Lessons of Jonah – Daniel F. Polish
  • The Divine Order Affirmed and Undone: The Law-Court Motif in the Book of Iyov – Anson H. Laytner
  • Biblical FilicideExceptions to the Norm – Yossi Feintuch

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

  • Sacred Pearls from the Anthology – Edward Zerin

POETRY

  • Not a Careless Scribe – Janice Ginsberg Rubin

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Why People Pray – Mordecai Schreiber, Reviewed by David J. Zucker
  • Becoming a Soulful Educator – Aryeh Ben David, Reviewed by Eliot J. Baskin

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