CONTENTS

Symposium Issue on Judaism and Science

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gates – בשערים

ARTICLES

Editors’ Introduction: Why Science Matters to Judaism
Philip Cohen and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Part I: Responding to Norbert Samuelson

The Challenges of the Modern Sciences for Jewish Faith
Norbert M. Samuelson

Searching for the Quantum God: On Judaism and Modern Science 
Victoria Ziva Frappollo

Jewish Philosophy, Science, and the Humanities
Zachary Braiterman

Part II: Judaism and the Physical Sciences

Judaism and Physics 
Peter Ochs

Revisiting Creation, Natural Events and Their Emergent Patterns
Bradley Shavit Artson

Why We Need Process Theology
Toba Spitzer

Part III: Science and Judaism: Methodological Considerations

A Jewish View of the Evolution of Religion
Allen S. Maller

Dreams: The True Religion-Science Conflict
Russell Jay Hendel

Rethinking Conjoined Twins 
Jonathan K. Crane

Part IV: The Human Sciences: Neuroscience, Psychology, and Education

Mystical and Spiritual, Neurological and Theological 
Ralph D. Mecklenburger

Neuro-Jewish Education: An Introduction
Justus N. Baird

The Science behind Yetzer Hara
Geoffrey A. Mitelman

The Case for Science Education in Our Religious Schools
Laurie Green

Part V: Rethinking Creation Theology

Science and Judaism in Light of Today’s Ecological Imperative 
Fred Scherlinder Dobb

Not Playing to Empty Benches: The Role of Mind in the Search for Meaning
Lawrence Troster

Judaism and Science: Selected Bibliography

RESPONSE TO THE SPRING 2011 SYMPOSIUM
Michael Perelmuter

RESPONSES TO THE SUMMER 2011 ISSUE
Paul Golomb
David Zucker
Joshua Segal

BOOK REVIEWS

Poetry Feeds the Jewish Soul: Introducing Four Reviews 
Adam D. Fisher

Finding Words 
Merle Feld Reviewed by Ruthie Gelfarb

God’s Optimism 
Yehoshua November Reviewed by James Rosenberg

70 Faces: Torah Poems
Rachel Barenblat Reviewed by Adam D. Fisher

Until the Blue Kingdom Comes
James B. Rosenberg Reviewed by Adam D. Fisher

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gates — בשערים

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

The Maaseh Avraham Avinu Alav HaShalom: Translation, Notes, and Commentary
Bernard H. Mehlman

ARTICLES

Trauma and Recovery: Abraham’s Journey to the Akeidah
Naomi Graetz

Parent’s Torah
Ilana B. Grinblat

Preaching Against the Text: An Argument in Favor of Restoring Leviticus 18 to Yom Kippur Afternoon
Jeffrey Brown

Orthodox Women (Non-)Rabbis
Darren Kleinberg

Shabbat Weddings Revisited: The Pro Side for a Change
Reeve Robert Brenner

An Eye for an Eye—Indeed!
Stephen Passamaneck

Eric Bram: A Portrait of a Rabbi as an Educational Visionary
Samuel K. Joseph and Jeffrey Schein

Why Jews Wear Costumes on Purim
Farhad Arbad and Daniel M. Berry

The “Man” as “Fool-King”: Alexander the Great and the Wisdom of Women
Admiel Kosman

Sh’ma Echad
David L. Kline

BOOK REVIEWS

Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History
David Ruderman Reviewed by Paul J. Citrin

Wisdom of the Heart: The Teachings of Rabbi Ya’akov
of Izbica-Radzyn
Ora Wiskind-Elper Reviewed by Lawrence Kushner

Religious Toleration: Political Theory and Practical Arrangements—A Review Essay
Divided by Faith: Religious Confl ict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Moden Europe
Benjamin J. Kaplan

The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought
Eric Nelson Reviewed by Marc Saperstein

Sacred Treasure—The Cairo Genizah: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic
Mark Glickman Reviewed by Charles H. Middleburgh

POETRY

Waking Yom HaDin
Daniel F. Polish

To Make Sacred Dance Lessons from My Sister
Reeve Robert Brenner

Yom Kippur
Kendrah Raye Whyte

I am that I am
I am that I will be
Alison Burchett

The Man in the Picture
Sinéad Mac Devitt

Naso and Nisuin
Nancy S. Abraham

Surcease
Michael A. Meyer

A Midrash on Deuteronomy 6:5
Norman Hirsh

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

CONTENTS

Symposium Issue on Judaism, Health, and Healing

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gate – בשער

ARTICLES

Introduction to this Issue from the Guest Editors
Michele Prince and Nancy H. Wiener

Spirituality and Religion in Health Care: A Rabbi’s Personal Journey
Samuel E. Karff

My Daughter or Son the Nurse: Jews in Nursing and the Healing Role of Nurses
Ellen Olshansky

The Kalsman Institute Research Roundtable: Building a Field of Judaism and Health
Michele Prince

Of Teachers and Angels: Jewish Insights on Transforming the Relationship between Patient and Health Professional
Carol Levy and Richard N. Levy

Standing in the Doorway: Pastoral Perspectives on In-Home Chaplaincy
Jo Hirschmann

Beyond Membership to True Belonging: Jewish Responses to an Unchanging Need for Deep Attachment and Meaning in an Ever-Changing World
Edythe Held Mencher

The Torah of Despair
Elliot Kukla

The Stigma of Infertility
Eleanor Steinman

Ruth, Naomi and Levina’s Other: Asymmetrical Pastoral Care
Ruth Gais

On Illness
Douglas Kohn

P’tach Libi B’Toratecha (Open My Heart to Your Torah): Jewish Pastoral Theology in Process
Barbara E. Breitman, Mychal B. Springer, and Nancy H. Wiener

Rabbi’s Support of Older Couples’ Second Marriages
Harriet Rosen and Marlene Levenson

A New Ritual for Healing and Well-Being
Geri Newburge

The Intermediate Blessings of the Amidah as the Model for a Personal Twelve-Step Program
Jeffrey Ableser

A Very Personal Reflection: Debbie Friedman’s Setting of Mi Shebeirach as a Sonata
Evan Kent

Standing in Life before God: Report and Reflection on One Congregation’s First Steps for Creating a Congregation-Based Program on Health and Wellness
Richard F. Address

Sacred Communities: The Potential for Synagogues to be Communities of Caring and Meaning in the Older Population
Marion Lev-Cohen

Experiencing Judaism through Thematic Temple Programming
Richard Steinberg

The Rabbi Does Handstands: An Exploration of the Emerging Field of Jewish Yoga in North American Synagogues and Beyond
Marcus J. Freed

Verbatim with God
Robert Tabak

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

The Origins of the Reform Concept of Prayer: An Eighteenth Century Essay by Isaac Euchel
Translation and Introduction
Michael A. Meyer

POETRY

I Met a Man Today
Daniel S. Alexander

Between Earthquake and Hurricane
Daniel S. Alexander

After Psalm 16
Daniel S. Alexander

A Meditation: Healing the Broken-ness
Paulette Rochelle-Levy

Not Knowing
Abby Caplin

MRI
Linda Hepner

Words of Wisdom from Four Poets
Dawn Gross, Paulette Rochelle-Levy, Allen S. Maller, Patti Tana

BOOK REVIEWS

Midrash and Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition
Edited by Rabbi William Cutter, Ph.D., Reviewed by Rabbi Rochelle Robins

No Offense, Self-Defense, and On the Fence: Rabbis in Search of American Jewish Identity-A Review Essay

What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth Century American Rabbis
Naomi W. Cohen

Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Lila Corwin Berman

Jewish Preaching in Times of War 1800-2001
Marc Saperstein

Reviewed by Rabbi Richard Hirsh

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