CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Summer 2020
FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
CONVERSION
- Introduction – Kari Tuling
- The Sacred Journey of Gerut: Conversion as a Ritual Process – Ruth Adar
- Conversion in Tanach, Talmud, and Codes: Inventing Our Process – Marci N. Bellows
- Making Souls – Edward Elkin
- Fifty Years of Remeeting Sinai Partners – Stephen J. Einstein
- Reform Rabbis Should Follow Hillel, Not Shammai – Allen S. Maller
- Tomorrow: A Conversion Prayer – Israel Zoberman
- Becoming a Jew—The Long Journey Home – Vickie CarrollKeeping the Gates: A Reflection on Being a Convert and a Rabbi -Nikki Lyn DeBlosi
- Converting to What? A Jewish Afrolatina Story – Ellen Lippmann and Imani Chapman
- “We Endorse the Attitude of ‘Joy and Encouragement’”: Challenges to Conversion Policy in Jamaica in the Early Twenty-First Century -Dana Evan Kaplan
- T’vilah – Gaylia R. Rooks
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- “Am I a Man or a Jerk?” Reflections on the Art and Life of Saul Bellow -Samuel E. Karff
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Loincloth: Joseph, the First Modern? – Leigh Lerner
- The Rabbinic Spouse in Contemporary American Fiction: The Rabbi’s Wife Plays at Murder and Other Tales Told Out of Shul – David J. Zucker
- “Guzzlers and Gluttons Will Be Impoverished”: The Rhetoric of Wealth, Poverty, and Their Causes in the Book of Proverbs – Neal Gold
- Yom Kippur as Sacred Drama – Mark H. Levin
- Contemplating Sleep at 85 – David L. Kline
BOOK REVIEWS
- Inscribed: Encounters with the Ten Commandments – Collected and Edited by Oren Hayon, Reviewed by Bill Cutter
- Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates – Edited by Aaron J. Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov, Reviewed by David Ellenson
- Remix Judaism: Preserving Tradition in a Diverse World – Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Reviewed by Andrea Steinberger
- Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas – Yaacob Dweck, Reviewed by Laurence Edwards
- Haminhara (The Tunnel) – Abraham B. Yehoshua, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
- Tiemaon (Astonishment) – Aharon Appelfeld, Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
POETRY
- oh Franky—if only you could be here to see this – Lonnie Monka
- Sodom and Gomorrah, the Night Before – Deborah Bacharach
- sodom and gomorrah, the day after – Deborah Bacharach
- On Display – Enid Shomer
- The Wedding – Enid Shomer
- Chuppah – Miriam Flock
- Psalm 6:6: Times When the Kitel Is Worn – Daniel Polish
- A Wartime Baker – Roger Nash
- For a Man Whose Lifetime Was Spring – Roger Nash
- Bookmarks – Roger Nash
- The Gravity of a Table – Baruch November
RESPONSE TO THE SPRING 2020 ISSUE
- A Meditation on Psalm 27 – A. Brian Stoller
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