The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2019

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

WINTER 2019

FROM THE EDITOR

ARTICLES

THEOLOGIES FOR OUR TIMES

  • Why God Created Miracles in the Past but Not Now – Rifat Sonsino
  • Why God Created Miracles in the Past but Not Now: A Response – Clifford E. Librach
  • Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism: Arthur A. Cohen’s Critique of Mordecai M. Kaplan’s Theology – William E. Kaufman
  • Evil in the Thought of Israel Salanter and Rachel Adler – David Benjamin Bloom
  • Emil L. Fackenheim: Gratitude for the Gift He Was – Victor Shepherd
  • Reading between the Lines: The Unwritten Story of the Babylonian Exile – Richard Damashek
  • This Dor Swings Both Ways: Judah’s Bisexuality – Mark Sameth
  • Rabbi as Symbolic Moral Exemplar – Karen L. Fox
  • The Present and Future of Reform Aesthetics and Identity: Performadoxy and Emergent Custom – Andy Kahn
  • How the Status of Reform Judaism in Israel Has Affected Reform Jewish Perceptions of Zionism and Israel – Dana Evan Kaplan
  • Seeking the Comforts of Hope – Anthony D. Holz

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

  • Sacred Pearls: The Rabbi and People Business From the Anthology From Our Old Treasure – B. Yeushson (Third in Series) Introduction and Translation by Edward Zerin

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom – Ariel Burger Reviewed by Joseph Meszler
  • Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary – Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Reviewed by David Ellenson

POETRY

  • On First Waking – Adam Sol
  • Ducts and Conduits – Adam Sol
  • Autobiography of a Puddle – Roger Nash
  • The Distance Between Us – Roger Nash
  • Pilgrimage to the SIte of a Killing Field, Cambodia – Roger Nash
  • Elul – Y. Adler Translated from the Yiddish by Jessica Kirzane
  • Bontsha the Silent in the Afterlife Kaddish in Monessen – Leah Rachel Berkowitz
  • Mercy Has Thirteen Faces Tashlich – Susie Petersiel Berg
  • On a Cantor’s Breath – Charles van Heck

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