The Reform Jewish Quarterly Summer 2013

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

CONTENTS

Preparing for the New Machzor and the High Holidays

FROM THE EDITOR

ARTICLES

SECTION ONE: FROM THE EDITORS OF THE NEW MACHZOR

  • The New Reform Machzor Is a Solution, but What Is the Problem? Edwin C. Goldberg
  • What Happens When We Use Poetry in Our Prayer Books—and Why? Sheldon Marder
  • The End of Liturgical Reform as We Know It: Creative Retrieval as a New Paradigm. Leon A. Morris
  • SECTION TWO: FROM PROFESSORS OF LITURGY AT HUC-JIR
  • “Lu Yehi”: High Holy Day Liturgy and Experience in Israel, Dalia Marx
  • Machzor: The Poetry of Truly Awe-Inspiring Days, Richard S. Sarason
  • A Tale of Three Machzorim, Richard N. Levy
  • Doing It Right or Doing It Well? Lawrence A. Hoffman

SECTION THREE: FROM OUR COLLEAGUES

  • When I Hear the Shofar I Taste Chocolate: Seeking the Synesthetic on the High Holy Days, Evan Kent
  • Love, Liturgy, Leadership, Elyse D. Frishman
  • The Yamim Nora’im: Concentric Circles of Liturgy and Relation, Lawrence A. Englander
  • The Calves of Our Lips: The Inescapable Connections between Prayer and Sacrifice, Leon A. Morris
  • “Baavur Sheani Noder Tzedakah Baado”, Margaret Moers Wenig
  • Visions for a New/Old Reform Yizkor Service, Donald B. Rossoff
  • We, the Avaryanim, Chant Kol Nidrei, Donald P. Cashman
  • The Un’taneh Tokef Prayer—Sealing Our Faith, Not Our Fate, Y. Lindsey bat Joseph
  • Viewing Un’taneh Tokef through a New Lens, Amy Scheinerman
  • Mystical Journeys and Magical Letters: The Y’rushalmi’s Cosmology in the Machzor, Judith Z. Abrams
  • The Machzor before the Machzor: Interpreting the High Holy Days during the Second Temple Period, Aaron D. Panken
  • Yom Kippur in Moab: Reflections on the Setting of the Parashah, Elsie R. Stern

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

  • Maimonides’ T’shuvah to Ovadyah the Proselyte
  • Philip Matoff Posner

RESPONSES TO THE FALL 2012 SYMPOSIUM

  • Kenneth D. Roseman
  • Jeff Marx

POETRY

  • Stretching toward S’lichot, Ruth Lerner
  • Rosh HaShanah in the Pines, 2011/5772, Hara E. Person
  • What If, Donald B. Rossoff
  • Kol Nidrei, Jenni Person
  • Yom Kippur, The Essence Does Not Change, Yehoshua November
  • The Ankle of the High Priest, Joseph R. Black
  • The Wilderness of Tishrei, Barbara AB Symons

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