The Reform Jewish Quarterly Fall 2019

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Fall 2019

Spiritual and Mental Wellness 

FROM THE GUEST EDITORS

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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