CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Sacred Teaching and Spiritual Learning

From the Editor

• At the Gates

Articles

• Introduction to This Issue by the Guest Editors, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Michael Shire

Section One: The State of Jewish Spiritual Education

• Beyond Romanticism: Having Something Spiritual to Say, Lawrence A. Hoffman
• The Middle Realm, the Creative Process, and the Creator in Religious Education, Jerome W. Berryman
• A Transformational Model for Jewish Education, Rami Shapiro

Section Two: Children’s Jewish Spiritual Education

• Avirah Ruchanit—Creating a “Spiritual Atmosphere” for Jewish Teens, Moshe Ben-Lev
• Good Grief: Helping Jewish Children Live with Death, Jennifer Gubitz
• Choose Life: Identifying and Addressing the Spiritual Needs of B’nei Mitzvah Students and Families, Goldie Milgram
• An Experiment in Spiritual Education: Teacher as Researcher, Student as Theologian, Joel Mosbacher and Wendy Grinberg
• Practices that Nurture Young Jewish Children’s Spiritual Development, Deborah Schein
• “I Knew That Within Me There Was God”—Teaching Spiritual Awareness to Children, Amy Scheinerman

Section Three: Jewish Spiritual Guidance and Formation

• The Quest for Meaning: Insights on Nurturing Adult Spiritual Development, Roberta Louis Goodman
• Jewish Spiritual Direction: Developing a Vocabulary for the Experiences of Our Inner Lives, Jacob J. Staub
• The Practice of Teaching Jewish Spirituality: Some Lessions I Have Learned, Sheila Peltz Weinberg

Section Four: The Arts and Jewish Spirituality

• (Re)Learning L’Hitpaleil: The Performance of Prayer as Spiritual Education, Tamar Heather Havilio
• Jewish Early Adolescent Spirituality, Micah Lapidus
• Storytelling and Spirituality: Sacred and Shared between Generations, Peninnah Schram

Poetry on the Theme of the Symposium

• She Said Yes, Barbara AB Symons
• Akiva, Joseph Black
• Hide and Seek, Brad L. Bloom
• Morning Prayer, Tamara Cohen
• Astronauts, Judy Katz

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Sacred Teaching and Spiritual Learning

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

• A Brief Introduction to this Section
• Personal Theology, Arthur Green
• Teaching Judaism as a Spiritual Religion: Every Bush is Burning, Seymour Rossel
• Changing Seats, Changing Perspectives: Thoughts on Worship and Spirituality in Congregations, Rex D. Perlmeter
• A Spiritual Dynamics Approach to Spiritual Education, Mike Comins
• Discovering Ourselves in the Text: Reclaiming the Sacred in Congregational Torah Study Groups, Jeffrey W. Goldwasser
• Making Prayer Meaningful: Empowering Sophisticated Prayer Communities through School Worship, Saul Kaiserman, Daniel Reiser, Lisa Kingston, and Hannah Goldstein
• Muscar as Spiritual Education, Marcia R. Plumb

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• Midrash Al Yithallel (Do Not Boast): Introduction, Translation, and Expostion, Bernard H. Mehlman

FROM THE SOURCES

• Separation – Individuation and Oedipal Motifs in the Abraham Narrative, Steven Lebow
• Rabbis Undermining Rabbis: Subversive Midrashic Narratives, Amy Scheinerman

ON BEING A RABBI

• Spirituality and Appreciative Inquiry in the Jewish Chaplaincy and Elsewhere, Reeve Robert Brenner
• Sources from Talmud and Midrash on Dilemmas with End-of-Life Care, Peter Joel Hurwitz
• A Prisoner Cannot Free Himself: Helping Very Smart Rabbis Learn, David A. Whitman
• A Laboratory of Living Judiasm, Mark S. Shapiro
• “With Vision and Boldness”: Opening HUC-JIR to Applicants and Students with Non-Jewish Partners, Daniel Kirzane

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

• Memories of 1948, Miriam B. Elkins

RESPONSES TO THE SUMMER 2013 ISSUE

• Preparing for the New Machzor: A Plea Regarding the New Machzor, Seymour Prystowsky
• Not Dead Yet: A Response to Leon Morris on the End of Liturgical Reform, Dan Fink

POETRY

• Far from the Tree, Madeline Kirsch
• Living Between Dad’s Life and Death, Michele E. Lenke
• A Babel Rabble, Judy Neri

BOOK REVIEWS

• Open Heart, Elie Wiesel, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Neuland, Eshkol Nevo, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• On God: An Uncommon Conversation, Norman Mailer, with Michael Lennon, Reviewed by Allen Howard Podet
• Rabbi Gabrielle’s Scandal and A Kiss for Rabbi Gabrielle, Roger Herst, Reviewed by Thomas P. Liebschutz

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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Renewing Our Relationship with the Talmud

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

• Guest Editors’ Introduction: Introduction to Finding and Re-Finding the Talmud in Reform Judaism, Daniel Bronstein and Debra Landsberg Summer 2014 At the Gates

Section One: Reform Judaism and the Case for Talmud

• A Talmudist Manifesto: Why Reform Judaism Needs the Talmud, and Why the Talmud Needs Reform Judaism, Aaron D. Panken
• It’s Our Book: A Talmudic Reading for Reform Jews, Mark Washofsky
• Talmud beyond Halachah, Alyssa M. Gray
• Pragmatism versus the Talmudic Process in Reform Judaism: The Minyan as Case Study?, Leon A. Morris

Section Two: Reflections from the Field

• Talmud and Reform Judaism Renewing Each Other, Amy Scheinerman
• Reform Jews Study the Talmud, Hillel Gamoran
• Living Talmud, Adrienne P. Scott
• A Twelve-Step Guide to Become Addicted…to Talmud Study, Judith Z. Abrams

Section Three: Reform Reflections on the Siyum

• Hadran Alach: One Rabbi’s Reflections on the 2012 Daf Yomi Siyum, Marc Katz
• Reflections of a Mesayem, Gershon Zylberman

Section Four: A View from Israel

• Neither Chareidi Nor Trembling: Theory and Practice in the World of the Babylonian Talmudic Sages, Ruchama Weiss and Yona Arzi

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• Ruchama Weiss: Hebrew Poetry and Its Burdens of the Present, William Cutter

RESPONSE TO THE FALL 2013 ISSUE, Israel Zoberman

POETRY

• The Asenath Cycle: Poems of Identity and Heritage
• A Jerusalem Quintet, Daniel F. Polish
• With My Daughter, At the Mikveh, Gila Ruskin
• Behind the Window, Jeffrey A. Summit
• Fathers and Sons, Israel Zoberman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Go to the Nineveh: Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Book of Jonah, Translated and Explained, Steve Bob: Reviewed by Norman M. Cohen
• My Father and Mother, Aharon Appelfeld: Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• The Jewish Annotated Bible—New Revised Standard Version, Edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler: Reviewed by David J. Zucker
• On the Edge, Amy Carb Sussman Reviewed by Adam Sol

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

• A Positive Perspective on the Three Embarrassing Wife-Sister Stories in Genesis, Henry A. Zoob
• Three Biblical Bases of Rabbinic Repentance, Scott Hoffman
• Legal Authority and Verbal Harm in a Talmudic Narrative, Karl A. Plank
• Chesed Shel Emet: Reconsidering the Future of Jewish Burial, Yoni Regev

A TRIBUTE TO DAVID ELLENSON

• Tradition in Transition: The Incredible Journey of President David Ellenson, Robert Levine
• For These I Weep: A Theology of Lament, Rachel Adler
• At the Turning: Reflections on My Life, David Ellenson

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

• The Unholy Scramble for Pulpits: A History of Reform Rabbinic Placement (Part 1): 1893–1961, Alan Henkin
• Kaskel’s Chutzpah, Gary Stein
• The Sigd: From Ethiopia to Israel, Shai Afsai

POETRY

• To a Grandson Yet to Be Born, Reeve Robert Brenner
• Rising Higher, Israel Zoberman

• Women’s Bible Commentary, 3rd edition, edited by Carol A Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley
• The New Reform Judaism: Challenges and Reflections, Dana Evan Kaplan

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