CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Summer 2015
FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
ON BEING A RABBI
- Audacious Education: Why Educating to the Boy Brain Educates All, Jon Hanish and Becky Hoffman
- Addiction in Body, Mind and Jewish Spirituality, Paul Steinberg
- Becoming Jewish in a Taxi: Borders and Behaviours on the Journey towards Judaism, Barbara Borts
- To Wait for the Law to Change or Not to Wait, That Is the Question: A Guide for Same-Sex Couples and Rabbis on the Necessity of Using Private Law to Protect the Rights of Same-Sex Relationships, Sona Gala and Arthur Gross-Schaefer
FROM THE SOURCES
- Philo on Moses, Joshua David Garroway
- Secular(?) Versions of the Kaddish in the Kibbutz Movement, Dalia Marx
- Was Rashi Wrong?: A Minor Mystery, Stephen M. Passamaneck
- God Language: A Medieval Perspective, Leonard Kravitz
- The Sh’ma as D’varim, Elliot B. Gertel
POETRY
- Beyond, Rowena Silver
- Passover’s Peace Partners, Israel Zoberman
- Zayde Reeven, One, Two, Three, Reeve Robert Brenner
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
- Response to the RJQ Winter 2015, Israel Zoberman
BOOK REVIEWS
- Our Religious Brains: What Cognitive Science Reveals about Belief, Morality, Community, and Our Relationship with God, Ralph Mecklenburger, Reviewed by Geoffrey A. Mitelman
- Outside the Bible: Ancient Writings Related to Scripture, Edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reviewed by David J. Zucker
- The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season, Marcia Falk, Reviewed by Suzanne Singer
- The Veterans of History: A Young Person’s History of the Jew, Mitchell Silver, Reviewed by John Friedman
- The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors, Reeve Robert Brenner, Reviewed by Arnold S. Task
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