Journal 2015

The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2015

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Winter 2015

Symposim: Poetry After Auschwitz

FROM THE EDITOR

ARTICLES

SYMPOSIUM: POETRY AFTER AUSCHWITZ

  • Introduction to Poetry After Auschwitz, Bruce Kadden
  • Adorno, Celan, and the Dictum against Poetry after Auschwitz, Nicolaas P. Barr Clingan
  • Silence and Words after Auschwitz, Bruce Kadden
  • “The Holocaust without Smoke”: Irena Klepfisz’s “Bashert,” Lisa Marcus
  • The Moral Responsibility of Survival? Victims, Poetry, and Conflict after Auschwitz, Beth Kraig

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

  • Selections from Arnold B. Erhlich’s Die Psalmen (The Psalms), Bernard H. Mehlman and Gabriel E. Padawer

FROM THE SOURCES

  • The Human God and the Divine Human: “And” or “Or,” Amy Scheinerman
  • Of Mice and Men, “Idiots First,” and Genesis 22, David J. Zucker
  • (Re-)Naming the Tradition: Jo Sinclair’s Wasteland as a Lesbian Jewish Novel, Wendy Zierler

ON BEING A RABBI

  • “For I Have Given You Good Counselors, You Shall Not Forsake Them,” Daniel Utley
  • Making the Undiscussable Discussable, David A. Whiman
  • The Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel, Stanley A. Ringler
  • It’s Time to End Our Silence on Syria, Nicole Roberts

POETRY

  • Of Course, I do not know, Benjamin Z. Rudavsky
  • The Divine Tragedy, Norman Gordon
  • The West Bank, Norman Gordon
  • Not Ready Yet, Norman Gordon

POETRY AFTER AUSCHWITZ

  • In Response to Visiting Auschwitz, Bruce Kadden
    • Poetry Before Visiting Auschwitz
    • Poetry While Visiting Auschwitz
    • Poetry After Visiting Auschwitz
  • I Did Not Lose My Father at Auschwitz, Lisa Marcus

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Behind Heschel’s Theology – A Review Essay, Elliot B. Gertel
    • Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence, Shai Held
    • Theodicy of Culture and the Jewish Ethos: David Keigen’s Contribution to the Sociology of Religion, Martina Urban
    • Abraham Heschel and the Phenomenon of Piety, Joseph Harp Britton

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The Reform Jewish Quarterly Summer 2015

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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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The Reform Jewish Quarterly Fall 2015

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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Fall 2015

FROM THE EDITOR

ARTICLES

SYMPOSIUM: YOUTH ENGAGEMENT

  • Guest Editors’ Introduction, Michael White and Karen Thomashow
  • Kids Today: A Brief Psycho-Social Overview, Samuel K. Joseph and Betsy Stone
  • Revolutionizing Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Isa Aron
  • Spark! Spiritual Engagement of Jewish Adolescents, Michael Shire
  • Not Just Pitching a Tent in the School: What Jewish Specialty Camps Teach Us About Engaging Teens, Michael Shapiro Abraham
  • Jewish Youth Engagement and Social Justice, Jonah Pesner
  • “Don’t Talk At Us, Walk With Us”: BBYO’s Growing Teen Movement, David M. Kessel and Ira J. Dounn
  • Professionalizing the Field, Melissa Frey
  • An Overview of the Union for Reform Judaism’s Youth Strategy, Bradley Solmsen

FROM THE SOURCES

  • Postbiblical R&B: Reuben’s Rhythms and Bilhah’s Blues, Daniel J. Zucker and Moshe Reiss
  • Giving Voice to the Unspeakable: Rabbinic Responses to Disaster, Amy Scheinerman
  • How the Son of the Kingfish Became an Advocate for Societ Jewry, David Goldstein

POETRY

  • Welcoming Arms Well Armed, Reeve Robert Brenner
  • D-G Spelled Backwards? An Ode, Daniel Polish

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Israel Mattuck: The Inspirational Voice of Liberal Judaism, Danny Rich, Reviewed by David J. Zucker
  • The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Mel Scult, Reviewed by Robert M. Seltzer

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The Reform Jewish Quarterly Spring 2015

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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Excerpts from the Spring 2015 Issue

Spring 2015

Loss…And Found

FROM THE EDITOR

ARTICLES

Section One: Loss, It’s Complicated

  • When Loss = Gain, Amy Scheinerman

Section Two: The Persistence of Absence

  • Finding the Right Words in Ministering to the Dying and Bereaved, Barry Block
  • Balancing Personal and Professional Loss in Our Rabbinate: A Personal Essay, Brad Bloom
  • On Love and Loss: One Rabbi’s Perspective, Sheldon Harr
  • They Did Not “Pass,” They Died, David J. Zucker

Section Three: Filling the Void

  • “Remember, the Entrance to the Sanctuary is Inside You…,” Karen Soria
  • A Temporary Life Among the Disabled, Stephen S. Pearce
  • A Theology of Loss: An E-mail Conversation, Sharon Burniston with Ruth Gais
  • My Daughter, Liz Rolle
  • There Is a God and She Doesn’t Care Whether or Not You Sacrifice Goats to Her, William Blank

Section Four: Reflection in a Distant Mirror

  • Lessons on Loss from the Ancient Life of Adam and Eve, Joel M. Hoffman

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

  • Tur Hoshen Mishpat/Beit Yosef, Hilchot Poalim 331 and 333, Suzanne Singer

FROM THE SOURCES

  • A Figure Dimly Seen, Stephen M. Passamaneck
  • The Sword Outstretched over Jerusalem: A Puzzling Allusion in the Passover Haggadah, David Arnow
  • Kosher, Kashrut, and Little Piggy, Reeve Robert Brenner

ON BEING A RABBI

  • “In the Process of Becoming”: A Verse from Scripture Framed by Memories, Everett Gendler

POETRY

  • If you believe, Brad Bloom
  • Isaacides, Sam Rothberg

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