The Reform Jewish Quarterly Summer 2018

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

SUMMER 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

ARTICLES

FOR OUR TEACHERS

  • Jeremiah 17:5-8 and the Teachings of the Trees – Andrea L. Weiss
  • The Climatic End to N’ilah: The Making of Tradition – Lawrence A. Hoffman
  • Forgetting What We Think We Know: One Approach to Sage Narrative – Cathy Schechter
  • Borowitz’s B’rachot – Jill Cozen-Harel

FROM THE SOURCES

  • Remembering Jochebed – David J. Zucker
  • Revelation at Sinai: toward a Feminist Understanding – Chelsea Feuchs
  • Yismach Moshe: What Is the Reason for V’shamru in the Shabbat Shacharit Amidah? – Ian Silverman
  • Who Knows What? Maimonides on the Philosopher, the Prophet, and Moses – Michael Eli Nutkiewicz

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

  • “For the Sake of Zion”? Debating a Post- Nationalist Zionism – David Barak-Goredetsky
  • On Self-Images and Jewish Identity – Benjie Gruber
  • Renewing Abram’s and Sarai’s Unconditional Covenant or Why Be a Reform Jew? – Matthew A. Kraus
  • Our Debt to Martin Luther – Daniel F. Polish

TO BE A RABBI

  • TIn Praise of Preaching – David A. Whiman
  • The Myth of Monogamy: Opening the Conversation about Polyamory and Judaism – Eliana Fischel

POETRY

  • Sarah and Jacob–A Midrash – Henry Jacobson

BOOK REVIEWS

  • A Democratic Mind and Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind – by Israel W. Charny, Reviewed by Samuel E. Kraff

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