Excerpts from the SPRING 2009 ISSUE
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
From the Editor: At the Gates - בשערים
Introduction: Getting to the Heart of the Discussion of a New Machzor
Elaine Zecher
Giving Meaning to Our Days: Reimagining Un?taneh Tokef?
A Survey of Selected Sermons
Daniel Plotkin
The Angels Proclaim It, But Can We?
"The Whole Earth Is Full of God’s Presence"
Nancy Flam
Wrestling with God’s Image in the High Holy Day Liturgy
Yoel H. Kahn
Searching for God in the 7th Grade
Joel Mosbacher
The Poetry and the Power of Paradox
Margaret Moers Wenig
POETRY
Thank You
Geri Rosenzsweig
O Lake You Are the Mouth of God
Dena Feingold
To Our Father
Arlene Weiner
The Fire and the Knife
Dan Logan
It Is Stillness: A Poetic Meditation
Richard Walden
Yom Kippur Fast in Taos
Judith Strasser
BOOK REVIEWS
Practice
Dan Bellm
Reviewed by Adam D. Fisher
The Making of Israel’s National Poet
Nili Scharf Gold
Reviewed by William Cutter
The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old Church
Diana Butler Bass
Reviewed by Matthew D. Gerwitz
