The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2018

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

WINTER 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

ARTICLES

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

  • I Saw My God at the Café: “Secular” Israeli Women Poets Meet God – Dalia Marx
  • Birds Finding Home: Three Women Poets Reconsidered – Sonja Keren Pilz
  • Images of Jerusalem in Hebrew Bible – Jacqueline Romm Satlow

FROM THE SOURCES

  • On “Blessing” and “Salvation” in the Tanach – Elliot B. Gertel
  • On Reading Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination – Elizabeth Bahar
  • From Aggadah to Halachah – Gilbert S. Rosenthal
  • Purim and Her Sisters – Daniel F. Polish
  • The Qur’an on Jews and Judaism – Reuven Firestone

POETRY

  • You Dressed Yourself in Glory and Beauty – Adam Fisher
  • Under My Zayde’s Tallit – Israel Zoberman

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Forevermore & Other Stories – by S.Y. Agnon, Edited and Annotated by Jeffrey Saks, Reviewed by Laurence L. Edwards
  • Guidance Not Governance: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa – by Joan S. Friedman, Reviewed by Dvora Weisberg
  • The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, a View from Israel – By Ronald Kronish, Reviewed by Eric Yoffie

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