CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

CONTENTS

Symposium Issue on New Visions of Jewish Community

ARTICLES

From the Editor: At the Gates – בשערים

Introduction to This Issue from the Guest Editors
Alan Henkin and Paul Kipnes

A Demographer Considers the Twenty-First Century
Bruce A. Phillips

Keeping the Glass Half Full: Reinvigorating American Reform Judaism
Lance J. Sussman

Future of the Denominations: Analysis and Possibilities
Amy L. Sales

Shifting Landscapes: The Response of Modernity to Faith, Social Advocacy, and Demographic Change
Stephen S. Pearce

In this Time, In This Place: Establishing Your Voice and Defi ning Your Message
Steven Windmueller

Building and Enhancing Religious Community Online
Laura A. Baum

Moving Beyond the Limited Reach of Current “Social Media” Approaches: Why Jewish Digital Communities Require Rich and Remixable Narrative Content
Owen Gottlieb

Just Beyond the Horizon
Richard F. Address

Judaism 2111
Avi Schulman

POETRY

Biographic Bridge
Navah-Tehila

Sending My First Chumash to Sheimos
Norman Lipson

God’s Toolbox
James B. Rosenberg

BOOK REVIEWS

The Architecture of Louis Kahn and Percival Goodman— A Review Essay
Louis I. Kahn’s Trenton Jewish Community Center
Susan G. Solomon
Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikveh Israel and the
Midcentury American Synagogue
Susan G. Solomon
Reviewed by Elliot B. Gertel

Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Elie Kaunfer Reviewed by Cathy L. Felix

Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation
Naomi Seidman Reviewed by Laurence Edwards

When I Sleep and When I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn
Dalia Marx Reviewed by David Ariel-Joel

The Man Who Knew God: Decoding Jeremiah
Mordecai Schreiber Reviewed by David J. Zucker

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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CONTENTS

Symposium Issue on Judaism, Health, and Healing

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gate – בשער

ARTICLES

Introduction to this Issue from the Guest Editors
Michele Prince and Nancy H. Wiener

Spirituality and Religion in Health Care: A Rabbi’s Personal Journey
Samuel E. Karff

My Daughter or Son the Nurse: Jews in Nursing and the Healing Role of Nurses
Ellen Olshansky

The Kalsman Institute Research Roundtable: Building a Field of Judaism and Health
Michele Prince

Of Teachers and Angels: Jewish Insights on Transforming the Relationship between Patient and Health Professional
Carol Levy and Richard N. Levy

Standing in the Doorway: Pastoral Perspectives on In-Home Chaplaincy
Jo Hirschmann

Beyond Membership to True Belonging: Jewish Responses to an Unchanging Need for Deep Attachment and Meaning in an Ever-Changing World
Edythe Held Mencher

The Torah of Despair
Elliot Kukla

The Stigma of Infertility
Eleanor Steinman

Ruth, Naomi and Levina’s Other: Asymmetrical Pastoral Care
Ruth Gais

On Illness
Douglas Kohn

P’tach Libi B’Toratecha (Open My Heart to Your Torah): Jewish Pastoral Theology in Process
Barbara E. Breitman, Mychal B. Springer, and Nancy H. Wiener

Rabbi’s Support of Older Couples’ Second Marriages
Harriet Rosen and Marlene Levenson

A New Ritual for Healing and Well-Being
Geri Newburge

The Intermediate Blessings of the Amidah as the Model for a Personal Twelve-Step Program
Jeffrey Ableser

A Very Personal Reflection: Debbie Friedman’s Setting of Mi Shebeirach as a Sonata
Evan Kent

Standing in Life before God: Report and Reflection on One Congregation’s First Steps for Creating a Congregation-Based Program on Health and Wellness
Richard F. Address

Sacred Communities: The Potential for Synagogues to be Communities of Caring and Meaning in the Older Population
Marion Lev-Cohen

Experiencing Judaism through Thematic Temple Programming
Richard Steinberg

The Rabbi Does Handstands: An Exploration of the Emerging Field of Jewish Yoga in North American Synagogues and Beyond
Marcus J. Freed

Verbatim with God
Robert Tabak

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

The Origins of the Reform Concept of Prayer: An Eighteenth Century Essay by Isaac Euchel
Translation and Introduction
Michael A. Meyer

POETRY

I Met a Man Today
Daniel S. Alexander

Between Earthquake and Hurricane
Daniel S. Alexander

After Psalm 16
Daniel S. Alexander

A Meditation: Healing the Broken-ness
Paulette Rochelle-Levy

Not Knowing
Abby Caplin

MRI
Linda Hepner

Words of Wisdom from Four Poets
Dawn Gross, Paulette Rochelle-Levy, Allen S. Maller, Patti Tana

BOOK REVIEWS

Midrash and Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition
Edited by Rabbi William Cutter, Ph.D., Reviewed by Rabbi Rochelle Robins

No Offense, Self-Defense, and On the Fence: Rabbis in Search of American Jewish Identity-A Review Essay

What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth Century American Rabbis
Naomi W. Cohen

Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Lila Corwin Berman

Jewish Preaching in Times of War 1800-2001
Marc Saperstein

Reviewed by Rabbi Richard Hirsh

 

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CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

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CONTENTS

Symposium Issue on Gender and Judaism in Conversation

FROM THE EDITOR

At the Gates

ARTICLES

Introduction to this Issue from the Guest Editor

Elyse Goldstein

SECTION ONE: FEMINISM STARTS THE CONVERSATION

Emerging Rabbis: It’s Too Soon to Proclaim “Mission Accomplished”

Jodie Gordon

Shechinah: The Divine Feminine

Geela Rayzel Raphael

Bat Mitzvah’s Delayed Coming-of-Age in Reform Judaism

Carole B. Balin

SECTION TWO: THE CONVERSATION WITH TEXT AND RITUAL

Learning Talmud Together: Reclaiming the Text through Feminish Chevruta

Audrey Pollack and Marcia Beck

Deconstructing Feminist Midrash: The Next Step in the Revolution of Revelation

Laurie Green

B’rit Milah: A Feminist Dialogue

Elyse Goldstein

Response to Rabbi Elyse Goldstein on B’rit Milah

Leah R. Berkowitz

The Hospital Poems of Zelda: A Spirituality for Ailing and Aging

Rachel Adler

SECTION THREE: THE CONVERSATION INCLUDES MEN

Brotherhood, In Memoriam? 1923–?

Doug Barden

Gender and the Soul of Men

Shawn Israel Zevit

Making the Minyan

Peter B. Schaktman

SECTION FOUR: BROADENING THE CONVERSATION BEYOND BINARY

Male and Female, God Created Them? The Intersex, Transgender, and Transsexual in Jewish Tradition and in Our Lives

Margaret Moers Wenig

In God’s Image (B’tzelem Elohim)

Kate Levy

Rainbow Children Grown Up: Conversations on Jewish/Queer Identity and Communal Culture

Jane Rachel Litman

Two Women Marrying in the Tradition of Moses and Israel

Jaimee Shalhevet and Helayne Shalhevet

SECTION FIVE: THE CONVERSATION IN ISRAEL

On Gender Segregation in Israel

Anat Hoffman

Women Rabbis in Israel

Dalia Marx

RESPONSES TO PRIOR ARTICLES AND ISSUES

Reeve Brenner

Israel Zoberman

Allen Mahler

Scott Saulson

POETRY

Not An Amaryllis

James B. Rosenberg

Sense of Humor

Mindy Kronenberg

The King and Queen of Newbridge

Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan

Six to Six

Gayl Teller

BOOK REVEWS

The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival

Hirsh Goodman

Reviewed by Ron Kronish

For the Sake of Zion: Reform Zionism—A Personal Mission

Richard G. Hirsch

Reviewed by Henry (Hank) Skirball

All Is One? Current Theories—A Review Essay

Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition

Arthur Green

Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism

Jay Michaelson

Jewish Theology in Our Time

Edited by Elliot J. Cosgrove

Reviewed by Eric Caplan

Two Views of American Judaism—A Review Essay

Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal

Dana Evan Kaplan

Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics and the ArtScroll Revolution

Jeremy Stolow

Reviewed by Jeffrey I. Roth

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