CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
WINTER 2019
FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
THEOLOGIES FOR OUR TIMES
- Why God Created Miracles in the Past but Not Now – Rifat Sonsino
- Why God Created Miracles in the Past but Not Now: A Response – Clifford E. Librach
- Between Naturalism and Supernaturalism: Arthur A. Cohen’s Critique of Mordecai M. Kaplan’s Theology – William E. Kaufman
- Evil in the Thought of Israel Salanter and Rachel Adler – David Benjamin Bloom
- Emil L. Fackenheim: Gratitude for the Gift He Was – Victor Shepherd
- Reading between the Lines: The Unwritten Story of the Babylonian Exile – Richard Damashek
- This Dor Swings Both Ways: Judah’s Bisexuality – Mark Sameth
- Rabbi as Symbolic Moral Exemplar – Karen L. Fox
- The Present and Future of Reform Aesthetics and Identity: Performadoxy and Emergent Custom – Andy Kahn
- How the Status of Reform Judaism in Israel Has Affected Reform Jewish Perceptions of Zionism and Israel – Dana Evan Kaplan
- Seeking the Comforts of Hope – Anthony D. Holz
MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)
- Sacred Pearls: The Rabbi and People Business From the Anthology From Our Old Treasure – B. Yeushson (Third in Series) Introduction and Translation by Edward Zerin
BOOK REVIEWS
- Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom – Ariel Burger Reviewed by Joseph Meszler
- Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary – Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Reviewed by David Ellenson
POETRY
- On First Waking – Adam Sol
- Ducts and Conduits – Adam Sol
- Autobiography of a Puddle – Roger Nash
- The Distance Between Us – Roger Nash
- Pilgrimage to the SIte of a Killing Field, Cambodia – Roger Nash
- Elul – Y. Adler Translated from the Yiddish by Jessica Kirzane
- Bontsha the Silent in the Afterlife Kaddish in Monessen – Leah Rachel Berkowitz
- Mercy Has Thirteen Faces Tashlich – Susie Petersiel Berg
- On a Cantor’s Breath – Charles van Heck
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