CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

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Fall 2022

The Family Issue

Editorial Team: Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman; Rabbi Lisa Sari Bellows; Rabbi Stacey Blank; Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, PhD; Rabbi Laura Lieber, PhD; Rabbi Beth Lieberman; Rabbi Daniel Reiser; and Rabbi Zachary Shapiro

From the Editor

• At the Gates

Articles and Poetry

• Parenting in a Brave New World – Kristine Henriksen Garroway, PhD
• Family/Fragments – Michael Satlow, Phd
• “Reclaiming My Time”: The Orphan in Judaism Today – Rabbi Audrey R. Korotkin, PhD
• Why Are Jewish Families Complicated? Ask Jacob – Rabbi Leigh Lerner
• Family Systems and Stress for the Rabbi: Navigating Role Relationships – Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL
• Toward a New Framework for Reform Jewish Views on Polyamory – Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, PhD
• The Trope of Divorce – Rabbi Michele E. Lenke, DMin
• Family Estrangement—Yes, in the Jewish Community – Rabbi Judith Beiner
• From Rabbi to Client: Seeking Support in the Shadow of Pregnancy Loss – Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun, DMin
• When the Unthinkable Happens: Clergy Grieving a Child – Rabbi Ariel Milan-Polisar
• Celebrating Yom HaMishpacha in Israel – Rabbi Stacey Blank

Essays

• On Hannah and Hope: One Rabbi’s Fertility Journey – Rabbi Amy E. Goodman
• “For Me, It’s Just My Life”: Clergy Kids – Gabriella Bellows
• The Joys of Asperger’s: Raising a Jewish Child to Be a Mensch – Rabbi Jordan Parr
• Take My Hand, and We’ll Build Our Tomorrow – Rabbi Zach Shapiro
• The Rabbinate and Family Life – Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz
• Serving a New Community During Loss – Rabbi Maya Y. Glasser
• M’dor L’dor and Around Again – Rabbi Mimi Weisel and Rabbi Michael Shefrin

Maayanot (Primary Sources)

• Poetry by Almog Behar, Asher Reich, Esther Ettinger, Maayan Szternfeld, and Gilad Meiri – translated by Rabbi Stacey Blank

Book Reviews

• Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy – Noam Sachs Zion – Reviewed by Rabbi Dvora Weisberg, PhD
• The Netanyahus – Joshua Cohen – Reviewed by Rabbi Barry Block
• HaBat HaYechidah (The Only Daughter) – A. B. Yehoshua – Reviewed by Rabbi Gili Tzidkiyahu, Review translated from Hebrew by Rabbi Stacey Blank
• The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects – Laura Arnold Liebman – Reviewed by Rabbi Melanie Aron
• Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century – Sarah Abrevaya Stein – Reviewed by Rabbi David J. Zucker, PhD
• The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed – Wendy Lower – Reviewed by Rabbi Beth L. Schwartz
• When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains – Ariana Neumann – Reviewed by Rabbi Lisa Delson
• From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family – June Cummins with Alexandra Dunietz – Reviewed by Rabbi Wendy Pein
• Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love – Dani Shapiro, Reviewed by Rabbi Suzanne Singer

Poetry

• Mothering in the Belly of the Whale – Deborah Bacharach
• For my son, on the occasion of your graduation from elementary school – Deborah Bacharach
• Empty Prayer – Judith Skillman
• Internal Family Systems – Judith Skillman
• Not Spoken Here – Jane Seitel
• Walking Backwards – Dan Alter
• What I Learned – Carol V. Davis
• In Every Generation – Carol V. Davis
• Where I’m from – Diana Rosen
• Day of the Dead for a Non-Mexican – Diana Rosen
• Goldie, Aleha HaShalom – Roger Nash
• An Antique Chuppah – Roger Nash
• Homage – Roger Nash
• Of a Harmonica and Kippah – Roger Nash
• Tools – Roger Nash
• My Dad Playing Ping Pong in the RCAF Rec Centre with Howard Nemerov, 1942 – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Or After That – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Dear Mom – Paul Hostovsky
• Shaving My Father – Rabbi Mark Elber
• Forgive Me – Rabbi Mark Elber
• Prophylactic Contralateral Mastectomy – Josette Akresh-Gonzales
• You Are Now Sharing Your Location – Matthue Roth
• I forgot to buy apples today – Ronda Piszk Broatch
• 9 May 1942—Łódź Ghetto, Poland – Ronda Piszk Broatch
• Self-Portrait with Olga in Łódź – Ronda Piszk Broatch
• my grandfather once threw a gestapo man over a desk – Lonnie Monka
• My Mistake – Lonnie Monka
• What Shall I Say to My Children? – Rabbi Edward Zerin, PhD

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Summer 2022

Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate

Guest Editors: Rabbi Dr. Kari Tuling and Rabbi Mary L. Zamore

From the Guest Co-Editor

• At the Gates

Articles and Poetry

• The Legacy We Leave Behind – Rabbi Sally J. Priesand
• Let my people go that they may serve You – Merle Feld
• Wives to the Rescue: The CCAR’s Epic Decision to Ordain Female Rabbis in 1922 – Rabbi Carole B. Balin, PhD
• Helen Levinthal: An Opportunity for T’shuvah and Justice at HUC-JIR – Rabbi Shirley Idelson, PhD
• Engaging in T’shuvah for Profanation of the Name: Responding to Reports of Systemic Bias and Abuse against Susceptible Groups in the Reform Rabbinate – Rabbi Dr. Kari Tuling
• The Reckoning – Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar
• The Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate – Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, Rabbi Amy Schwartzman, and Rabbi Hara Person
• #MeToo, Rabbis, and the Ethics of Truth-Telling in Public – Rabbi Mira Beth Wasserman, PhD
• Shiru: Miriam’s Model for Leadership – Rabbi Sarah Berman
• B’not Dinah, The Daughters of Dinah: A Look at Our First Years – Rabbah Gila Caine and Rabbi Ayala Miron Translation by Rabbi Efrat Rotem
• For All Women Rabbis at Fifty Years – Rabbi Karen Bender
• Between the Blessings – Rabbi Barbara AB Symons, D. Min.
• Dance of the Zygote – Rabbi Zoe Klein Miles
• Answering Zusya’s Question: Becoming a Rabbi in Latin America – Andrea Kulikovsky
• Being a Lesbian Rabbi Pioneer in Britain – Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah
• The Reluctant Rabbi – Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun, D. Min.
• “It Is Time to Go Inside the Mishkan”: Liturgical Change in the Era of Women Rabbis – Rabbi April Davis
• Women Rabbis’ Understandings of Success: A Study – Rabbi Zari M. Weiss
• A Woman of Valor – Rabbi Séverine Sokol
• A Woman of Clergy – Rabbi Tzvia Jasper

Book Reviews

• Dabri Torah: A Women’s Commentary to the Torah – Edited by Alona Lisitsa – Reviewed by Rabbi Bill Cutter
• Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question: Extending the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik – Benji Levy – Reviewed by Rabbi David Ellenson, PhD
• The Memory Monster – Yishai Sarid – Translated from the Hebrew by Yardene Greenspan – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood – Mark Oppenheimer – Reviewed by Rabbi Charles P. Sherman

Poetry

• Poem for Willy Silber – Paul Hostovsky
• Pitching for the Apostates – Paul Hostovsky
• The Steps – Jane Seitel
• Friday Night Maccabees – Jane Seitel
• As it turns out, a great deal happens in Worms – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Licorice Fern – Carol V. Davis
• Shmita – Carol V. Davis
• Out Early with the Angels – Carol V. Davis
• Diaspora – Judith Skillman
• My Grandmother Rises – Judith Skillman
• The Pinchers – Judith Skillman
• The Alef – Mark Elber
• Moses on Mt. Nebo – Mark Elber
• Noah – Mark Elber
• Goliath – Mark Elber
• Draw Close – Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Ukrainian Sister – Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Viktor Frankl’s Cloak – Kate Powers, PhD

Response to the Spring 2022 Issue

• Wounded and Wounding Healer: More Diagnoses – Rabbi Dr. Scott B. Saulson

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CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Spring 2022

From the Editor

• At the Gates

Short Ficton

• The White City – Jonathan Wilson
• Plea Bargain – Rabbi Stacey Blank
• Eve, Alive – Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman
• A Sacred Marriage – Mara Fein, PhD
• Eyewitness to the Exodus: Serah bat Asher – Howard Schwartz and Rabbi Lane Steinger
• Job’s Shard – Rabbi Robert J. Ratner, PhD
• Eddi, Of Long Ago – Nancy Lefenfeld
• The Ones Who Survived the Lower East Side – Matthue Roth
• Mrs. Brooks – Enid Shomer

Articles

• Liturgical Responses to Catastrophe: A Preliminary Outline – Rabbi Dalia Marx
• Of Pigs, Pandemics, and Public Relations – Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, PhD
• Rabbi Yochanan: Wounded and Wounding Healer – Rabbi Dan Ornstein
• A Religious Approach to Sexual Behavior for Our Liberal Communities from a Dialogical Jewish Perspective: Mitzvah, R’shut, Isur—A Proposal -Admiel Kosman
• Isaac in the Triumvirate of the Patriarchs – Rabbi Edward S. Treister, EdD
• A Theology of the Personal – Mel Scult

Book Reviews

• Being Jewish Today: Confronting the Real Issues -Tony Bayfield – Reviewed by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Because My Soul Longs for You: Integrating Theology into Our Lives – Edited by Rabbi Edwin C. Goldberg and Rabbi Elaine S. Zecher – Reviewed by Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall
• Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah – Dr. Marcia Falk – Reviewed by Rabbi Suzanne Singer
• Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law – Edited by Simon Rabinovitch – Reviewed by Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis
• Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought – Aaron Koller – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Zoberman

Poetry

• Trigger Warning – S. J. Pearce
• The God of Be Here Now – Deborah Bacharach
• Eve Speaks to Adam about His First Wife – Deborah Bacharach
• Judith in the Red Tent – Deborah Bacharach
• Rosenthal China – Steven Riel
• Time – Rabbi Daniel Polish
• B’rit Olam (Eternal Covenant) – Rabbi Dr. Israel Zoberman
• Herring – Roger Nash
• Matzot – Roger Nash
• Poetry for Mark: I’ve Tried a Few Times Now – Rabbi Scott Fox
• A Prayer for My Soul on My 88th Birthday – Rabbi Norman Hirsh

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Winter 2022

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

• Notes from the Narrow Place: A Theological Reflection on Confinement – Philip Graubart
• Sperm Donation and Surrogacy in the Time When the Judges Judged – David J. Zucker, PhD
• Cancel Culture, Billy Graham, and the Jews: Weighing Nearly Forty-Five Years of a Historical Record – Judith Schindler
• On Accountability and T’shuvah: Two Talmudic Stories of Ostracism – Neil Hirsch
• The Gender Wage Gap in the Reform Movement: An Updated United Data Narrative -Savannah Noray
• T’filat HaAdam and the Maturation of Israeli Reform – Michael Rosen and David Ellenson, PhD
• Experiencing God’s Care – Adam D. Fisher
• Can Spinoza’s Pantheism and Kaplan’s Naturalism Be Compatible with Buber’s Existentialism? – Paul Menitoff
• Isaac and Iphigenia – Elaine Rose Glickman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure – Menachem Kaiser – Reviewed by Wendy Pein
• A Rooster for Asklepios and A Bull for Pluto – Christopher D. Stanley – Reviewed by Joshua Garroway, PhD
• The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust – Rafael Medoff – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Bait Shlishi—Meam Lishvatin Leam (The Third Commonwealth—From a Nation to Tribes to a Nation) – Ari Shavit* – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Shake and Tremor – Deborah Bacharach – Reviewed by Beth Schwartz
• Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley – Yaakov Beasley – Reviewed by Jeffrey Glickman

POETRY

• Have a Nice Trip, See You Next Fall – Matthue Roth
• Samson’s Mother – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Today’s Flutter of Questions – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• I would like a new tree – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Living with It – Judith Skillman
• The Silver Lining – Judith Skillman
• Still – Paul Hostovsky
• The Story of the World – Paul Hostovsky
• Adam . . . and Eve – Diana Rosen
• Tirza Reveals the Miraculous – Julie R. Enszer, PhD
• First Light -Elaine Terranova
• The Road to Gravure – Elaine Terranova
• It Rained All Sukkot – Roger Nash
• Mexican Border, Detention Center – Roger Nash
• Tikkun Olam – Roger Nash
• All the Broken Letters – Sharon Dolin
• Listen to the quiet voice – Sharon Dolin
• We Love the Red Bird Best – Sharon Dolin
• Sestina for a Body Art – Mary Ellen Talley
• In Greensboro – Enid Shomer
• Ascents – Jay Yair Brodbar
• Shechinah – Jay Yair Brodbar
• The Revolution of the Empty Sanctuary in Three Fictional Ancient Letters – Robert J. Ratner, PhD
• Ascension – Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
• Havdalah – Amy Bitterman
• The Whiteness of the Whale – James B. Rosenberg

 

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