CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Spring 2020
FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
HALACHIC THEORY
- What Do We Mean When We Say, “We Are Not Halachic”? – Leon A. Morris
- Halachah in Reform Theology from Leo Baeck to Eugene B. Borowitz: Authority, Autonomy, and Covenantal Commandments – Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
- The CCAR Responsa Committee: A History – Joan S. Friedman
- Reform Halachah and the Claim of Authority: From Theory to Practice and Back Again – Mark Washofsky
- Is a Reform Shulchan Aruch Possible? – Alona Lisitsa
- An Evolving Israeli Reform Judaism: The Roles of Halachah and Civil Religion as Seen in the Writings of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism – David Ellenson and Micahel Rosen
- Aggadic Judaism – Edwin Goldberg
- Talmudic Aggadah: Illustrations, Warnings, and Counterarguments to Halachah – Amy Scheinerman
- Halachah for Hedgehogs: Legal Interpretivism and Reform Philosophy of Halachah – Benjamin C. M. Gurin
- The Halachic Canon as Literature: Reading for Jewish Ideas and Values – Alyssa M. Gray
APPLIED HALACHAH
- Communal Halachic Decision-Making – Erica Asch
- Growing More Than Vegetables: A Case Study in the Use of CCAR Responsa in Planting the Tri-Faith Community Garden – Deana Sussman Berezin
- Yoga as a Jewish Worship Practice: Chukat Hagoyim or Spiritual Innovation? – Liz P. G. Hirsch and Yael Rapport
- Nursing in Shul: A Halachically Informed Perspective – Michal Loving
- Can We Say Mourner’s Kaddish in Cases of Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Nefel? – Jeremy R. Weisblatt
- When Halachah Seems Silent: A Male Survivor in the Mikveh – Paul Jacobson
BOOK REVIEWS
- The Story of Dinah: Rape and Rape Myth in Jewish Tradition. – Gavi S. Ruit, Reviewed by Rachel Bearman
- A State at Any Cost (The Life of David Ben-Gurion) – Tom Segev; translated by Haim Watzman, A State at All Costs (David Ben-Gurion’s Life), Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
- Doing Business in America – Edited by Hasia R. Diner, Reviewed by Jeffrey Glickman
- To Dwell in Your House: Vignettes and Spiritual Reflections on Caregiving at Home – Susan Freeman, Reviewed by Rochelle Robins
- Opening Your Heart with Psalm 27: A Spiritual Practice for the Jewish New Year – Debra J. Robbins, Reviewed by Barry H. Block
POETRY
- Shalom Bayit – Roger Nash
- Playing the Saw – Roger Nash
- Sitting Shivah – Diana Rosen
- Haiku for the Fashion Minded – Diana Rosen
- To You – Sharon Dolin
- A dream that has not been interpreted is like a letter that has not been read – Sharon Dolin
- Ruth 1:17 – Julie R. Enszer
- Cake – Julie R. Enszer
- Not the End of the World – Paul Hostovsky
- Yahrzeit – Paul Hostovsky
- After Psalm 23 – Charles Bernstein
- A Mourner’s Kaddish – Charles Bernstein
- Stars Bolt the Sky in Place – Patty Seyburn
- No, I’m the Boy’s Mother – Patty Seyburn
- Haiku/Senryu – Bruce J. Pfeffer
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