CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Summer 2019
FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
- Judaism and the Political World – Seth M. Limmer
- The Public Political Theology of Stephen S. Wise – Mark A. Raider
- Politics and the Rabbinate: A Medieval Perspective – Jennifer Grayson
- An Unsung Hero of Black-Jewish Relations: Lessons Learned from Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum in Deepening Understanding and Relationships Across the Divide – Judith Schindler
- What It Might Look Like to Be a Rabbi of the Radical Middle – Matthew D. Gewirtz
- The Fox News Chavurah: An Exploration of Congregational Audacious Hospitality – Ilana G. Baden
- Civil Discourse in a Reform Congregational Setting – Richard Kellner and Donald Sylvan
- Forty-Nine Reasons Why and Why Not: Learning to Disagree Constructively: A Review Essay -Daniel Reiser
- The Silent Ones Among You: How the Left’s Good-versus-Evil Approach to Politics Suppresses Dissent and Undermines Pluralism – A. Brian Stoller
- Leading Towards Justice – David Stern
- A Colleague’s Report from the Field: the Broken Shards That Drive Us – Andi Berlin
- Two Rabbis, One Partnership – Robert Nosanchuk and Josh Caruso
- Training Rabbis for Social Change and Transformation – Meir Lakein and Jeannie Appleman
- Engaging Literary Voices to See the Universal in the Particular – David H. Aaron
- The Changing Culture of Social Action – Al Vorspan z”l and Maral J. Feldman
POLITICS AND THE RABBINATE BOOK REVIEWS
- Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach – Leonora Tubbs Teasdale, Reviewed by Edwin Goldberg
- Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926 to 1963 – James L. Moses, Reviewed by Barry H. Block
- Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder, 1933-1945 – March Saperstein, Reviewed by David Ellenson
- A Precious Heritage: Rabbinical Reflections on God, Judaism, and the World in the Turbulent Twentieth Century, Rabbi Sidney Ballon, Selected Sermons 1936-1974 – Edited, Introductions, and Notes by Yeshaya Douglas Ballon, Foreword by Murray E. Simon, Reviewed by Marc Saperstein
- Zionism vs. Judaism (Can the Jewish State Survive the Jewish Religion?) – Arye Carmon – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
POLITICS AND THE RABBINATE POETRY
- What Rough Beast – Tony Barnstone
- The White Temple – Tony Barnstone
- The Ocean Diner – Tony Barnstone
BOOK REVIEWS
- The Day I Met Father Isaac at the Supermarket: Lessons in How to Live from the Jewish Tradition and Finding God in Unexpected Places: Wisdom for Everyone from the Jewish Tradition – Jack Riemer, Reviewed by Elliot B. Gertel
- The Commentators’ Bible: Genesis — The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot – Edited, Translation, and Annotation by Michael Carasik, Reviewed by David J. Zucker
- Judas – Amos Oz, Translated by Nicholas de Lange, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
- Jews and Words – Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
POETRY
- Vistula Theatre – Jonathan Garfinkel
- Seed Packet – Roger Nash
- The Bone Cave – Roger Nash
- A Full Moon Lights Up Rooms – Roger Nash
- MEANings – Lawrence Mark Lesser
- Hester Street, Lower East Side – Kim Roberts
- Yahrzeit – Charles van Heck
- Land of Israel – Brandon Marlon
- Annus Mirabilis – Brandon Marlon
Response to Victor Shepherd’s “Fackenheim” – Shelly Zimmerman
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