GUIDE TO SOURCES

Each source is identified by page number(s) only, by volume number, or by a leading symbol.

Page number(s) only - e.g.,

Artificial insemination 218-222

Such references are to "Responsa of the Central Conference of American Rabbis," Rabbi Jacob D. Schwartz, ed., New York, UAHC, 1954. (Note: All such citations are taken from the yearbooks of the CCAR and are also included in ARR - see below.)

Volume number (in Roman numerals, followed by year and page number(s) - e.g.,

Mixed marriage

Three generations of XCIV (1984) 173-174

Such references are to "Yearbook of the Central Conference of American Rabbis," (or CCAR Yearbook)

Symbols - e.g. the appearance of "ARR" in,

Cemetery,

building a chapel on a ARR 75-76

Circumcision,

of infant XCII (1982) 218-219 (ARR 141-143)

Such references are to one of the following sources, many of which can be found in the professional and scholarly section of the CCAR Press Catalog:

ARR - American Reform Responsa, Walter Jacob, ed, 1983.

A compendium of the responsa of the CCAR Responsa Committee as printed in the yearbooks of the CCAR, 1890-1982, including several "private" responsa written by Rabbi Jacob.

CARR - Contemporary American Reform Responsa, Walter Jacob, ed., 1987

A follow-up to ARR.

CCARJ - CCAR Journal (publication of the CCAR since 1953

Was titled Journal of Reform Judaism [or JRJ] from Spring 1978 to Spring 1991.

CoRR - Contemporary Reform Responsa, Solomon Freehof, 1974.

CuRR - Current Reform Responsa, Solomon Freehof, 1969.

HAL - Halakhah, Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah

JRJ - Journal of Reform Judaism (see CCARJ)

MRR - Modern Reform Responsa, Solomon Freehof, 1971.

NARR - New American Reform Responsa, Walter Jacob, 1992

NRR - New Reform Responsa, Solomon Freehof, 1980.

NYP - Not Yet Printed, responsa published by the Responsa Committee,

but not yet in bound collections.

RR - Reform Responsa, Solomon Freehof, 1960.

RRR - Recent Reform Responsa, Solomon Freehof, 1963.

RRT - Reform Responsa for our Time, Solomon Freehof, 1977.

TFN - Teshuvot for the 1990's, W. Gunther Plaut and Mark Washofsky, 1997.

TRR - Today's Reform Responsa, Solomon Freehof, 1990.