CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Fall 2019

Spiritual and Mental Wellness 

FROM THE GUEST EDITORS

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

SELF-CARE IN TIMES OF TRAUMA

• • When the Rabbi Feels Trauma – Paul Kipnes
  • Unconsumed: Emotional Resilience through Firey Times – Stephanie Kramer
  • Timeline of a Trigger: A Personal Journey Toward Healing Complex PTSD – Paul Jacobson
  • Healing from Pain – Stephen Robbins
  • Thoughts on a Living God – Richard Agler

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AND LIFELONG WELLNESS

• • Embodied Spiritual Practices: Cultivating Sense Perceptions as Gateways to Holiness – Myriam Koltz
  • Receiving and Giving Love: A Meditation on the Sh’ma and Its Blessings – Shelia Peltz Weinberg
  • A Jewish Cleric’s Meditation for Self-Care and A Jewish Cleric’s Meditation at a Moment of Challenge – Alden Solovy
  • Talmud Torah as Spiritual Practice – Jonathan P. Slater
  • Chevruta as Spiritual Practice – Beth Huppin
  • Slumbering at Sinai: Sleep as a Spiritual Practice – Jo Hirschmann
  • Divorce: A Different Story – Lisa J. Grushcow
  • Embracing Reality: Spiritual Preparation for Living with Dementia – Dayle A. Friedman
  • When the Rabbi Is Also the Caregiver – Eva Robbins

THE PROFESSIONAL PURSUIT OF SPIRITUAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

• • Minding Our Behavioral Health for the Sake of Spiritual Fulfillment – Laura Stein
  • Creating a Somatic Psychospiritual Practice – Karen Lee Erlichman
  • Watering the Earthly Garden with Sacred Flow: Tending to the Mental Health of Our Jewish Communities – Nancy E. Epstein and Elisa Goldberg

ADDICTION AND RECOVERY

• • Addiction Is a Spiritual Malady and Judaism Is a Spiritual Solution – Mark Borovitz
  • Addiction and Recovery in the Minds of the Rabbis – Annie Belford
  • Married to a Sex Addict – Anonymous
  • A Daily Reprieve: Addiction, Recovery, and Finding God – Michael Richker
  • Lost in TV Land – Monique Mayer
  • With the Blink of an Eye, I Finally Saw the Light – Edwin Goldberg

MAAYANOYT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• • T’filah Zakah:  A Yom Kippur Eve Self-Evaluation from Head to Toe

BOOK REVIEWS

• • And God Created Recovery: Jewish Wisdom to Help You Break Free from Your Addiction, Heal Your Wounds, and Unleash Your Inner Faith – Ilan Glazer, Reviewed by Laurie E. Green
  • Recovery, the 12 Steps and Jewish Spirituality: Reclaiming Hope, Courage and Wholeness – Paul Steinberg, Reviewed by Michael Shefrin
  • The Talmud of Relationships – Amy Scheinerman, Reviewed by Paul Golomb
  • Mourning and Mitzvah: A Guided Journey for Walking the Mourner’s Path through Grief to Healing, revised and expanded 25th anniversary edition – Anne Brener, Reviewed by William (Bill) Cutter

POETRY

• • Ben Zoma Asks, “Who Is a Hero?” – Daniel Polish
  • On Studying Sacred Texts – Judith Offer
  • Elon Musk, I Trusted You with My Bionic Heart– Matthue Roth
  • The Day God Destroys Sodom and Gomorrah – Deborah Bacharach
  • The Ox – Deborah Bacharach
  • Passed Out under His Daughter’s Hands, Lot Dreams of His Wife – Deborah Bacharach
  • Pregnant with the Dead – Susan Rich
  • First Graduate School Reception, September – Susan Rich
  • A Poem for Mr. Raphael Siv at the Irish Jewish Museum – Susan Rich
  • Variations on a Horizon (Autumn 2018) – Marc Nieson
  • Psalm 51: Variations – Ken Seide
  • Tzaddik – Jack M. Freedman

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Summer 2019

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

• Judaism and the Political World – Seth M. Limmer
• The Public Political Theology of Stephen S. Wise – Mark A. Raider
• Politics and the Rabbinate: A Medieval Perspective – Jennifer Grayson
• An Unsung Hero of Black-Jewish Relations: Lessons Learned from Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum in Deepening Understanding and Relationships Across the Divide – Judith Schindler
• What It Might Look Like to Be a Rabbi of the Radical Middle – Matthew D. Gewirtz
• The Fox News Chavurah: An Exploration of Congregational Audacious Hospitality – Illana G. Baden
• Civil Discourse in a Reform Congregational Setting – Richard Kellner and Donald Sylvan
• Forty-Nine Reasons Why and Why Not: Learning to Disagree Constructively: A Review Essay -Daniel Reiser
• The Silent Ones Among You: How the Left’s Good-versus-Evil Approach to Politics Suppresses Dissent and Undermines Pluralism – A. Brian Stoller
• Leading Towards Justice – David Stern
• A Colleague’s Report from the Field: the Broken Shards That Drive Us – Andi Berlin
• Two Rabbis, One Partnership – Robert Nosanchuk and Josh Caruso
• Training Rabbis for Social Change and Transformation – Meir Lakein and Jeannie Appleman
• Engaging Literary Voices to See the Universal in the Particular – David H. Aaron
• The Changing Culture of Social Action – Al Vorspan z”l and Maral J. Feldman

POLITICS AND THE RABBINATE BOOK REVIEWS

• Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach – Leonora Tubbs Teasdale, Reviewed by Edwin Goldberg
• Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926 to 1963 – James L. Moses, Reviewed by Barry H. Block
• Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder, 1933-1945 – March Saperstein, Reviewed by David Ellenson
• A Precious Heritage: Rabbinical Reflections on God, Judaism, and the World in the Turbulent Twentieth Century, Rabbi Sidney Ballon, Selected Sermons 1936-1974 – Edited, Introductions, and Notes by Yeshaya Douglas Ballon, Foreword by Murray E. Simon, Reviewed by Marc Saperstein
• Zionism vs. Judaism (Can the Jewish State Survive the Jewish Religion?) – Arye Carmon – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman

POLITICS AND THE RABBINATE POETRY

• What Rough Beast – Tony Barnstone
• The White Temple – Tony Barnstone
• The Ocean Diner – Tony Barnstone

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Day I Met Father Isaac at the Supermarket: Lessons in How to Live from the Jewish Tradition and Finding God in Unexpected Places: Wisdom for Everyone from the Jewish Tradition – Jack Riemer, Reviewed by Elliot B. Gertel
• The Commentators’ Bible: Genesis — The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot – Edited, Translation, and Annotation by Michael Carasik, Reviewed by David J. Zucker
• Judas – Amos Oz, Translated by Nicholas de Lange, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Jews and Words – Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman

POETRY

• Vistula Theatre – Jonathan Garfinkel
• Seed Packet – Roger Nash
• The Bone Cave – Roger Nash
• A Full Moon Lights Up Rooms – Roger Nash
• MEANings – Lawrence Mark Lesser
• Hester Street, Lower East Side – Kim Roberts
• Yahrzeit – Charles van Heck
• Land of Israel – Brandon Marlon
• Annus Mirabilis – Brandon Marlon

Response to Victor Shepherd’s “Fackenheim” – Shelly Zimmerman

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Spring 2019

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

• Introduction – B. Elka Abrahamson
• God in the Biblical Imagination: Syntactic Form and Theological Meaning – Andrea L. Weiss
• The Sin of Self-Slavery: The Role of the Egyptians in the Exodus Narrative – Daniel Kirzane
• Reform from the Outset: Innovation in Torah – Barry H. Block
• Jeroboam: A Sinner or a Social Leader and Religious Reformer? – Dalia Marx
• “‘Look what I’ve found,’ said Kohelette”: Texts that Talk Back to Kohelet 7 – Wendy Zierler
• A Chanukah Thesis – Matthew A. Kraus
• Is There a Jewish Version of the “Just War” Doctrine? Some Notes on the Nature of Halachic Interpretation  – Mark Washofsky
• The Talmud Bavli’s Intertextual Invention of Benjamin the Tzaddik – Alyssa M. Gray
• The Deposition of Rabban Gamliel: A Rabbinic Transition — Analysis of Babylonian Talmud B’rachot 27b–28a – Joshua Fixler
• Cold Comfort: A Feminist Reading of Moses in the Beit Midrash of Rabbi Akiba. – Dvora Weisberg
• The 1946 Exchange between Rav Tzair (Chaim Tchernowitz) and Rav Binyamin (Yehoshua Radler-Feldman) on Bi-Nationalism and the Creation of a Jewish State – David Ellenson
• How Liturgy Tells the Truth – Lawrence A. Hoffman
• States of Being, States of Being Jewish – Michael Marmur
• Rabbi Dr. Aaron D. Panken: Teaching and Modeling Leadership – Rick Jacobs
• Chavruta – Jan Katzew

BOOK REVIEW

• Kings III – Yochi Brandes Reviewed by Israel Zoberman

POETRY

• Jewish Cemetery, Wertheim – Roger Nash
• Beginning Again – Roger Nash
• Preemie – Roger Nash
• Remembering Her Father’s Birthday – Diana Rosen
• Everything Is Territory – Diana Rosen
• Autobiography, First Chapter – Diana Rosen
• Patagonian Pilgrimage – Daniel Fink
• Woods Walking – Adam Fisher

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

WINTER 2019

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

THEOLOGIES FOR OUR TIMES

• Why God Created Miracles in the Past but Not Now – Rifat Sonsino
• Why God Created Miracles in the Past but Not Now: A Response – Clifford E. Librach
• Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism: Arthur A. Cohen’s Critique of Mordecai M. Kaplan’s Theology – William E. Kaufman
• Evil in the Thought of Israel Salanter and Rachel Adler – David Benjamin Bloom
• Emil L. Fackenheim: Gratitude for the Gift He Was – Victor Shepherd
• Reading between the Lines: The Unwritten Story of the Babylonian Exile – Richard Damashek
• This Dor Swings Both Ways: Judah’s Bisexuality – Mark Sameth
• Rabbi as Symbolic Moral Exemplar – Karen L. Fox
• The Present and Future of Reform Aesthetics and Identity: Performadoxy and Emergent Custom – Andy Kahn
• How the Status of Reform Judaism in Israel Has Affected Reform Jewish Perceptions of Zionism and Israel – Dana Evan Kaplan
• Seeking the Comforts of Hope – Anthony D. Holz

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• Sacred Pearls: The Rabbi and People Business From the Anthology From Our Old Treasure – B. Yeushson (Third in Series) Introduction and Translation by Edward Zerin

BOOK REVIEWS

• Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom – Ariel Burger Reviewed by Joseph Meszler
• Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary – Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Reviewed by David Ellenson

POETRY

• On First Waking – Adam Sol
• Ducts and Conduits – Adam Sol
• Autobiography of a Puddle – Roger Nash
• The Distance Between Us – Roger Nash
• Pilgrimage to the SIte of a Killing Field, Cambodia – Roger Nash
• Elul – Y. Adler Translated from the Yiddish by Jessica Kirzane
• Bontsha the Silent in the Afterlife Kaddish in Monessen – Leah Rachel Berkowitz
• Mercy Has Thirteen Faces Tashlich – Susie Petersiel Berg
• On a Cantor’s Breath – Charles van Heck

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