CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

FALL 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

PAY EQUITY WITHIN THE REFORM MOVEMENT

• Introduction – Guest Editors: Marla J. Feldman and Mary L. Zamore
• Gender Pay Equity: A Textual Exploration for Justice – Mary L. Zamore
• Responsum on Equal Pay – Jonathan Cohen on behalf of the CCAR Responsa Committee
• Pay Equity in the Reform Movement: An Unfinished History of Policy and Action – Marla J. Feldman
• Women Cantors and Dollars in 1976 – Barbara J. Ostfeld
• What the Latest Reform Movement Rabbinic Salary Study Reveals about the Gender Wage Gap – Michael J. Gan and Natalie C. Moffett
• The Gender Wage Gap in the Reform Movement: A United Data Narrative – Elise Gould
• What Is Possible: Striving for Gender Pay Equity for Congregational Employees – Esther L. Lederman and Amy Asin
• Embedding Pay Equity into the Congregational Culture – Paul Kipnes
• Rewriting the Rules and Breaking the Wage Gap Silence – Shifra Bronznick and Emma Bronznick Goldberg
• Where Do We Go from Here? Achieving Pay Equity on Our Pulpits – Richard Jacobs

FROM THE SOURCES

• But is it Fair? Toward a Talmudic Theory of Value and Compensation – Paul Golomb

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• “The Meaning of History”: A 1946 Address by Leo Baeck on the British Broadcasting Company German Language Program Translation and Introduction – Gabriel E. Padawer and Benard H. Mehlman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Desertion, Deception, and Delusion: Synagogue Sociology in Detroit and in Other Cities? – A Review Essay Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit – by Lila Corwin Berman Squelched: The Suppression of Murder in the Synagogue – by T. V. LoCicero, Reviewed by Elliot B. Gertel
• The Mossad Messiah – by Leigh Lerner, Reviewed by Robert Orkand

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

SUMMER 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

FOR OUR TEACHERS

• Jeremiah 17:5-8 and the Teachings of the Trees – Andrea L. Weiss
• The Climatic End to N’ilah: The Making of Tradition – Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Forgetting What We Think We Know: One Approach to Sage Narrative – Cathy Schechter
• Borowitz’s B’rachot – Jill Cozen-Harel

FROM THE SOURCES

• Remembering Jochebed – David J. Zucker
• Revelation at Sinai: toward a Feminist Understanding – Chelsea Feuchs
• Yismach Moshe: What Is the Reason for V’shamru in the Shabbat Shacharit Amidah? – Ian Silverman
• Who Knows What? Maimonides on the Philosopher, the Prophet, and Moses – Michael Eli Nutkiewicz

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

• “For the Sake of Zion”? Debating a Post- Nationalist Zionism – David Barak-Goredetsky
• On Self-Images and Jewish Identity – Benjie Gruber
• Renewing Abram’s and Sarai’s Unconditional Covenant or Why Be a Reform Jew? – Matthew A. Kraus
• Our Debt to Martin Luther – Daniel F. Polish

TO BE A RABBI

• TIn Praise of Preaching – David A. Whiman
• The Myth of Monogamy: Opening the Conversation about Polyamory and Judaism – Eliana Fischel

POETRY

• Sarah and Jacob–A Midrash – Henry Jacobson

BOOK REVIEWS

• A Democratic Mind and Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind – by Israel W. Charny, Reviewed by Samuel E. Kraff

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

SPRING 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates
• Foreword – Neal Gold and Josh Weinberg

ARTICLES

FOUNDATIONS: ZIONISM AND ISRAEL

• The Radical Theology of A. D. Gordon – Yari Bar Zuri
• “Twice a Stranger”: The Religion and Politics of Judah Leib Magnes – David Barak-Gorodetsky
• The Land of Israel in Medieval Torah Commentaries: The Case of B’rit Bein HaBetarim – Edward Elkin
• Reishit Tz’michat G’ulateinu: Theological Challenges of the Prayer for Isreal in Liberal Prayer Books – Neal Gold
• A Greater Zionism: What Can Contemporary Zionism Learn From Mordecai M. Kaplan? – Bar Guzi
• The Inordinate Cup – Michael Marmur
• Who Owns the Promised Land> Reflections on the Future of the National Institutions – Lea A Mühlstein
• Connection and Disconnection: The Paradox of Israel Education in the Digital Age – Sivan Zakai

MY ISRAEL: THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS

• Turning Seventy: How Do We Create and Teach a More Realistic Image of Israel? – Leora Ezrachi-Vered
• A Zionism of “And Nevertheless” – Michael A. Meyer
• The History of Chalutzim, a Pioneer of Zionist Education in Reform Jewish Camping – Jerry Kaye
• Reform Jews and Israel: Ayekah? Ayeinu? – Jeffrey K. Salkin
• How to Engage Secular Israeli Jews to Explore Their Religious Identity and Step Into the Synagogue – Kinneret Shiryon

ISRAEL IN MIDRASH AND POETRY

• A New Woman’s Torah, Coming from Zion – Tamar Biala
• Journey: The Poetry of Admiel Kosman – Translation and Introduction by Lisa Katz

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Third – by Yishai Sarid, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

WINTER 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

• I Saw My God at the Café: “Secular” Israeli Women Poets Meet God – Dalia Marx
• Birds Finding Home: Three Women Poets Reconsidered – Sonja Keren Pilz
• Images of Jerusalem in Hebrew Bible – Jacqueline Romm Satlow

FROM THE SOURCES

• On “Blessing” and “Salvation” in the Tanach – Elliot B. Gertel
• On Reading Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination – Elizabeth Bahar
• From Aggadah to Halachah – Gilbert S. Rosenthal
• Purim and Her Sisters – Daniel F. Polish
• The Qur’an on Jews and Judaism – Reuven Firestone

POETRY

• You Dressed Yourself in Glory and Beauty – Adam Fisher
• Under My Zayde’s Tallit – Israel Zoberman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Forevermore & Other Stories – by S.Y. Agnon, Edited and Annotated by Jeffrey Saks, Reviewed by Laurence L. Edwards
• Guidance Not Governance: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa – by Joan S. Friedman, Reviewed by Dvora Weisberg
• The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, a View from Israel – By Ronald Kronish, Reviewed by Eric Yoffie

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