The Reform Jewish Quarterly Fall 2024

CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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This special issue of the CCAR Journal honors Rabbi David Ellenson, z”l. The essays focus on Rabbi Ellenson’s scholarly and practical work, including on halachah, liturgy, Zionism, feminism, modern Jewish thought, and his impact on our lived Judaism. General articles, book reviews, and poetry are also included.

Fall 2024

From the Editor

In Memory of Rabbi David Ellenson, z”l

  • Soaring on Two Wings: Solomon Schechter, Kaufmann Kohler, and Rabbinic Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century — Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow, DPhil
  • Exploring Tradition and Modernity: Ellenson on Holdheim — Rabbi Michael Marmur, PhD
  • David Ellenson: The Passionate and Practical Zionist — Rabbi Naamah Kelman
  • The Halachah of Artichokes alla Giudia: Wrestling Tradition and Modernity, Israel and the Diaspora, in Tribute to David Ellenson — Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, PhD
  • Borowitz, Durkheim, and Ellenson: Covenantal Theology and Collective Effervescence in Conversation — Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch
  • Israeli, Reform, Halachic: Practical Meanings of Rabbi Ellenson’s Approach for Israeli Jews — Rabbi Benjamin Minich
  • Keeping His Dream Alive: The Loving Legacy of David Ellenson — Rabbi Robert N. Levine, DD
  • Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, z”l: A Kind Visionary and a Visionary of Kindness — Rabbi Asher Lopatin
  • Senior Sermon: Parashat Tzav — Hannah Ellenson

General Articles

  • A Contemporary Controversy: Pope Pius and World War II — Rabbi Daniel Polish
  • The Footnote—Reading Spinoza’s Ethics: The End of Medieval Thought — Rabbi Paul Golomb
  • The Truth Judge or the True Judge? — Daniel M. Berry and Rabbi Lori Cohen
  • Jacob Schiff, the RPB, and My Retirement — Rabbi Alan Henkin
  • CCAR RESPONSUM 5784.1 Photographic Images on Tombstones — CCAR Responsa Committee, Rabbi Joan S. Friedman, Chair
  • True Forgiveness: A Responsum and Two Case Studies — Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein
  • Responding to Moral Injury: The Healing Power of Jewish Texts, Teachings and Practices — Rabbi Kim S. Geringer and Rabbi Nancy H. Wiener
  • When Sons Disappoint: The Consequences of Filial Failure in the Tanach — Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz

Book Reviews

  • A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity by Dr. A.J. Berkovitz — Reviewed by Eden Glaser
  • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life by Rabbi Shai Held — Reviewed by Rabbi Sam Pollak
  • Books Like Sapphires: From the Library of Congress Judaica Collection by Ann Brener— Reviewed by Jordan Finkin
  • Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism and the Transformation of Judaism and Women’s Rights in Israel by Ronit Irshai and Tanya Zion-Waldoks — Reviewed by Rabbi Sara Zober
  • Reading Reform Responsa: Jewish Tradition, Reform Rabbis, and Today’s Issues by Rabbi Mark Washofsky, PhD — Reviewed by Rabbi A. Brian Stoller

Poetry

  • Wicked Problems — Miriam Flock
  • Jacob in Luz — Janet Ruth Heller
  • To See the Divine Face and Live—Or Not! — Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce
  • Springtime — Wayne Norman Cochran
  • 1 Tishrei — Jessica Greenbaum
  • A Poem for Purim — Rabbi Natalie Louise Shribman
  • The Synagogue of the Sea — Roger Nash
  • Elegy: Forest Wildfires 2023 — Roger Nash
  • Saving Eden — Roger Nash
  • Kfar Aza — Sharon Rogoff
  • The Diameter of the Massacres — Rabbi Karen Bender
  • Poor God — Paul Raboff
  • Englischer Garten, 1922 — Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
  • Savta — Rinat Harel
  • War and All — Rinat Harel
  • Love and Lice — Rabbi Dr. Israel Zoberman
  • Dead Sons — Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
  • What Happened at Mount Sinai — Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
  • Elegy in Reverse for Yom Kippur — Rabbi William (Bill) Cutter

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