CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Winter 2016
FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
FROM THE CCAR CONVENTION
- Marking the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Acceptance of Openly Gay and Lesbian Rabbis in the Reform Movement: An Address at the 2015 CCAR Convention (Philadelphia, March 16, 2015) – Yoel H. Kahn
- How God Changes Your Brain: An Introduction to Jewish Neurotheology – Andrew Newberg
- Growing Older, Growing Better: The Impact of the Longevity Revolution – Richard F. Address
ON BEING A RABBI
- Authority and Religion: The Jewish Philosophy of Alvin J. Reines – Anthony D. Holz
- Saying “Yes” to Mixed-Marriage Officiation: A Socio-Halachic Approach – A. Brian Stoller
- Davar Acher: Rabbis Should Stand for Jewish Marriage – Arnold S. Gluck
FROM THE SOURCES
- Rabbinic Criminal Justice – Stephen Passamaneck
THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL
- When Efforts at Synagogue Transformation Fail – David A. Whiman
- A Need for a New Ritual: Remembering the Birthday for a Loved One Who Has Died – Arthur Gross-Schaefer and Ilana Schachter
- My Son – Eric Wisnia
MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)
- S. Y. Agnon, “The Great Synagogue” – Laurence L. Edwards
POETRY
From The Songs of the Garden, Haim O. Rechnitzer
- Between Me and You
- A Day in the Garden
- The Jackal Moment
BOOK REVIEWS
- The Bible’s Prophets: An Introduction for Christians and Jews, David J. Zucker – Reviewed by Mordechai Schreiber
- The Myth of the Cultural Jew, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall – Reviewed by Laurence L. Edwards
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