CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Fall 2021
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Symposium: Disruption in Twenty-First- Century Rabbinical Life

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

• Introduction: Learning How to Canoe the Mountains – Edwin Goldberg, DHL
• The Future of Work: Lessons for Clergy from the COVID-19 Pandemic – Liz P. G. Hirsch
• Disruptive Leadership, Disruptive Partnership – Allison Berry and Laura Abrasley
• Disruptive Technology in Jewish Life and Practice – Daniel B. Medwin, MAJE
• Trends in the Formation and Experience of Community – Yoshi Zweiback
• Creative Disruption: A New Judaism Emerges – Stanley M. Davids
• Sorry, We Don’t Have a Mikveh for You: Adapting Ritual for Gender Inclusion Beyond the Binary – Nikki DeBlosi, PhD, and Bonz Swencionis
• Managing Change in Synagogue Life – Steven Gross
• Disruption: Lifespan – Beth Lieberman
• Paula Ollendorff: Feminist and Liberal Jew – Michael A. Meyer
• Embracing Synagogue Disruption of the “New Now” and Beyond – Paul Kipnes and Julia Weisz
• The Beautiful Pearls of Disruption – Stacy Rigler, MAJE

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek – Reviewed by Stephanie Kramer
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Marshall Goldsmith – Reviewed by Debbie Kaiz Bravo
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown – Reviewed by A. Brian Stoller
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts – Brené Brown – Reviewed by Andi Berlin

POETRY

• Karpas 2021 – Susan Laemmle
• Exegesis – Shai Afsai
• Jerusalem  – Roger Nash

GENERAL ARTICLES

• Art for Our Sake—A Review Essay – Michael Marmur, PhD
• The Biblical K-R-H: Providence, Chance, Synchronicity? – Elliot B. Gertel
• When a B’rachah Is Not a Blessing – Edward S. Treister, EdD
• Masorti and Reform Judaism in an Israeli Legal Cadence: An Analysis and Comparison of Selected Halachic Writings of Rabbis David Golinkin and Moshe Zemer – David Ellenson, PhD, and Michael Rosen

BOOK REVIEWS

• American Jewish Thought Since 1934 – Edited by Michael Marmur and David Ellenson -Reviewed by Joseph A. Skloot, PhD
• Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil – Susan Neiman – Reviewed by Raphael Asher
• The invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel -Alexander Kaye – Reviewed by Geoffrey Dennis
• A New Hasidism: Roots and A New Hasidism: Branches – Edited by Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse – Reviewed by Laura Geller
• Kol Koleinu: Lifting Up Teen Voices – Sophie CokerWhen Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill – Howard Mortman – Reviewed by Dr. Israel Zoberman

POETRY

• Dark Matter – Stephanie Friedman
• The Ram Is Caught – Stephanie Friedman
• Perspective – Elisa Subin
• I Witness – Lonnie Monka
• When the Full Moon – Lonnie Monka
• Chanukah in the North – Roger Nash
• Laissez-Faire (Afghanistan) – Roger Nash
• Poem for Tu BiSh’vat – Steven M. Critelli
• Ben Azai Explains – Daniel Polish
• Ethical Will – Pamela Wax

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Spring/Summer 2021

Symposium: Gendered Judaism— Gender-Based Programs in Jewish Life

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

INTRODUCTION

• Gendered Judaism: It’s Complicated – Marla J. Feldman

WHAT IS GENDER? 

• The Future is Nonbinary? It’s Complicated: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Genders, Geographies, and Generations – Dr. Madelaine Adelman
• Gender and Jewish Collectivism: Learning from Women’s Business and Professional Networks – Dr. Nan S. Langowitz

SHE, HE, THEY: FINDING OUR PLACE WITHIN THE SPECTRUM 

• A Group of Her Own: The Creation of Jewish Women’s Organizations – Carole B. Balin, PhD
• Sisterhood, Spirituality, and Social Good: The Power of Women – Marla J. Feldman
• WRN Is (Still) Needed – Mary L. Zamore
• Making Space for Jewish Boys and Men – Daniel S. Brenner
• Men of Reform Judaism: Why It Exists and What It Accomplishes – Larry Krasnoff
• Making Room for “They”: A Yes, And Approach to Nonbinary Inclusion and Single-Gender Spaces – Nikki DeBlosi, PhD, and Bonz Swencionis

GENDER-BASED PROGRAMMING IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY 

• Just Men, Just Women: The Benefits and Tensions of Single-Gender Small Groups in Congregations – Lydia Medwin
• Sacred Encounter: Women’s Rituals and Retreats – Jessica Kessler Marshall
• “Zebulun on Your Journeys and Issachar in Your Tents”: Thoughts on the Role of Temple-Based Brotherhoods Today – Jeremy Barras
• Women’s Seders: Still Rising – Emily E. Segal
• The Men’s Seder – Dan Moskovitz

A NEW GENERATION: GENDER AND YOUTH

• A New Holy Land: Educating Ourselves On and Celebrating Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Jewish Youth – Michelle Shapiro Abraham and Eliana Rubin
• Giving Jewish Girls the Space to Thrive, Push Back, and Push Us All Forward – Tamara R. Cohen
• Kol Koleinu: Lifting Up Teen Voices – Sophie Coker
• Jacob and Esau: Modes of Masculinity for Teenage Boys – Barry H. Block

ARTICLES

• Lessons of Eish Zarah: The Ritual Use of Kaneh-Bosm – Peter Margolis
• From the Slaves of Pharaoh to the Servants of God – Stephen Bertman, PhD
• The “Sin” Of Zelafchad – Ivan Silverman
• The Polemics of Leaven at Passover and Shavuot – Deborah Prinz
• Paul and the Heart of Christian Antisemitism – Dr. Mark Verman

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• A Tribute to My Teacher Rabbi Simon Krinsky: His Poetry Until 1936 – Edward Zerin

BOOK REVIEWS

• What Was—and Is—Hebrew Literature? A Review Essay: The Lady of Hebrew and Her Lovers of Zion – by Hillel Halkin – Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making Edited by Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff – Reviewed by Neal Gold
• Israel: Voices from Within – Edited by Barry Chazan, Shai Chazan, and Yehudit Werchow – Reviewed by Stacey Blank
• Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law – Edited by Simon Rabinovitch – Reviewed by Paul Golomb
• Catch-67 (The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War) – Catch-67 (In Hebrew) – Micah Goodman, – Translated by Eylon Levy, – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• A Thorough History, Yes; A Complete Story, Perhaps Not: A Review Essay: Mavericks Inside the Tent: The Progressive Jewish Movement in South Africa and Its Impact on the Wider Community – Irwin Manoim – Reviewed by Glynis Conyer and Emma Gottlieb, Input and reflections by Julia Margolis
• Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Life in Troubled Times – Michael A. Meyer – Reviewed by Joseph A. Skloot, PhD
• Thinking about God: Jewish Views – Kari H. Tuling – Reviewed by Rebecca Einstein Schorr
• Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History – Jane S. Gerber – Reviewed by Rifat Sonsino, PhD
• Never Alone – Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy – Reviewed by Wendy Pein
• The Vegan Revolution – Richard Schwartz – Reviewed by Elyse Goldstein
• The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets, Then and Now – Nahum Ward-Lev – Reviewed by Lisa Goldstein
• Death, Illness, and Aging: The Inheritance of Our Flesh: A Review Essay: Getting Good at Getting Older – Richard Siegel and Laura Geller – Reviewed by Bill Cutter

POETRY

• And Now, They Hold – Jeffrey A. Summit, PhD
• Origin Story, Revision – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Early and Often – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• The “Lion’s” Grave (Kever HaAri) – Mark Elber
• Isaac – Mark Elber
• II Nehemiah and Primal Yiddish – Richard J. Fein
• Tashlich – Roger Nash
• Candle Lighting for Shabbat – Roger Nash
• Shuckling – Robert Nash
• Haifa Harbor – Michael Linder
• Hagbahah – Israel Zoberman

RESPONSE TO THE SUMMER 2020 SYMPOSIUM ON CONVERSION 

• The Toshav Tzedek: Identity, Weddings, and Co-Officiation: Halachic Structural Connectives – Reeve Robert Brenner

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Fall 2020/Winter 2021

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

SHORT FICTION

• All the World’s Wealth – Jonathan Wilson
• First They Came for the Torahs – Elizabeth Edelglass
• Alone in the Garden (A Post-Lapsarian Lament) – Ruth Gais
• People of the Stories – Howard Schwartz
• The Metamorphosis of Arye Leib – Simeon J. Maslin
• Fridays After Sunset in Manhattan – Matthue Roth
• The Journey to Shabbat – Stacey Blank
• The Golem of Glendale – Oren J. Hayon
• One Chimney, Two Cats – Roger Nash
• Family Witness – Nancy Lefenfeld
• Temple Ahavath Achim, the Congregation of Brotherly Love – Stephen S. Pearce
• T’reif – Elaine Terranova
• Sexagenarian Means Sixty Years Old Or Aspaclaria Means Mirror Sometimes Cloudy Sometimes Clear – James Stone Goodman
• Vision – James Stone Goodman
• Dark Moss – James Stone Goodman

ARTICLES

• She Said, Catch and Kill, and #MeToo: Lessons for the Jewish Community: A Review Essay – Reviewed by Mary L. Zamore
• The Asterisk Proposal – Elaine Rose Glickman
• Viktor Frankl Gazes Out at the World from a Concentration Camp and Teaches Us How to Utilize That Gaze in Our Own Spiritual Lives – Admiel Kosman
• Mima-amakim: The Adoption and Expansion of Imagery from Psalm 130 in Modern Hebrew Poetry and Culture – Sarah Grabiner
• Being That God Is Being: Concerns about a Trend in Jewish Thought – Elliot B. Gertel
• Ritual and Liturgy as Art Forms – Adam D. Fisher
• Discovering the Tel Zayit Abecedary: A Review Essay – Reviewed by Edward Zerin

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• The SeMaK, A Handbook of Holiness – Translation and Analysis by Steven Lebow
• Avraham Sutzkever: A Jewish Poet’s Poem in 1943 – Translation and Commentary by Israel Zoberman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Married to the Rabbi: Sixty Spouses of Retired Reform Rabbis in Their Own Words – Edited by Naomi Patz and Judith Maslin – Reviewed by David J. Zucker
• A Life of Meaning: Embracing Reform Judaism’s Sacred Path – Edited by Dana Evan Kaplan Reviewed – by David J. Zucker
• Radiance: Creative Mitzvah Living – Danny Siegel – Edited by Neal Gold – Reviewed by Joel Soffin
• The Tragedy Test: Making Sense of Life-Changing Loss: A Rabbi’s Journey – Richard Agler
• The Mystery of Suffering and the Meaning of God: Autobiographical and Theological Reflections – Anson Hugh Laytner Reviewed – by Daniel S Alexander
• The Evolution of Kaplan’s Leadership and Radical Religious Hope: Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan – Edited by Mel Scult – Reviewed by Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
• The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia – Stephanie Butnick, Leil Leibovitz, and Mark Oppenheimer – Reviewed by Wendy Pein
• The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God –Mark Sameth – Reviewed by Elaine Rose Glickman

POETRY

• On Rising – Dina Elenbogen
• First Fruit – Dina Elenbogen
• What We Can’t Give Back – Dina Elenbogen
• Elegy: A Refusal – Dina Elenbogen
• Moses and His Ultimatum – Philip Terman
• Unpainted Pictures – Judith Skillman
• Gutturals – Judith Skillman
• My Mother Makes Challah – Roger Nash
• L’Chayim – Roger Nash
• In Praise of Blurs – Roger Nash
• Oh, Worrisome Night – Edward Zerin
• When I Am Down and Low – Edward Zerin
• Ruach, Wind, Spirit – Herbert Bronstein

RESPONSE TO THE SUMMER 2020 SYMPOSIUM ON CONVERSION 

• The Toshav Tzedek: Identity, Weddings, and Co-Officiation: Halachic Structural Connectives – Reeve Robert Brenner

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Subscription and Ordering 

Back issues are available at $35 per issue plus shipping.

To order copies of CCAR Journal, contact CCAR Press at info@ccarpress.org or call 212-972-3636 x244.