The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2013

CCAR JOURNAL: THE REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

CONTENTS

Symposium Issue on Inspiration and Opportunity: The Arts in Jewish Life

FROM THE EDITOR

ARTICLES

GENESIS/B’REISHIT: A NEW VIEW

  • A Gift to the Community: The Los Angeles Temple Isaiah’s Festival of Jewish Artisans, Marcia Reines Josephy and Meira Josephy
  • Becoming a Modern Judaica Artist: A Stranger in a Strange Land No More, Gary Rosenthal
  • Painting by Numbers: Reporting on the Emergence of Modern Jewish Art, Tal Gozani
  • Visual Art as a Spiritual Practice, Miriam Terlinchamp

EXODUS/SH’MOT: ART AS A GUIDE TO WHERE WE ARE GOING

  • A Nu Way Forward: Reaching Jewish Young Adults in Creative Ways, Anne Hromadka
  • The New Authentics: Artists of a Post-Jewish Generation, Yael Rooks-Rapport
  • Towards a Taxonomy of the “Cultural Jew”, Richard A. Siegel
  • Choosing Art for the Jewish Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Joel Schwartzman

LEVITICUS/VAYIKRA: ARTISTS’ VOICES

  • Art and Prayer, Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik
  • Engaging Community, Mark Hurvitz
  • Collaboration and Participation, Flora Rosefsky
  • Transformative Experience, Peretz Wolf-Prusan, Lisa Sloane
  • Spiritual Journey, Yehudis Barmatz-Harris
  • The Passion of a Rabbi and Artist, Josh Plaut
  • An Artists’ Beit Midrash
    • Words of Introduction, Leon A Morris
    • The Artists’ Words
      • Barbara Freedman
      • Susan Kaplow
      • Larry Frankel
      • Rachel Kanter
  • Bezalel’s Legacy, Richard McBee

NUMBERS/B’MIDBAR: CHALLENGE AND PERSPECTIVE

  • Text and Commentary: Contemporary Jewish Art, Ori Z. Soltes
  • Jew as (German) Product: Rubber Ducks and Other Commodifi cations of Jewish Identity, Michal S. Friedlander
  • The Presence of What Is Absent: Art as Inquiry into Jewish Text, Adina Allen and Pat Allen
  • Visual Midrash: The Role of Art and Artists in Our Seminaries, Jean Abarbanel and Anne Hromadka
  • Jewish Art and Artists in the Seminary Setting, Jean Bloch Rosensaft and Laura Kruger
  • Faith in Irony: Judaica Today, Daniel Belasco

DEUTERONOMY/D’VARIM: MOVING FORWARD CREATIVELY

  • On the Path to Jewish Universalism: Art and Literature in Modern Hebrew Culture, William Cutter
  • Mishkan and Sukkah: Toward Jewish Sacred Space, Amy Reichert
  • Daring to Alter a Perfect Twentieth-Century Sanctuary to Meet the Needs of the Twenty-First Century, Roy A. Walter and Garey F. Marks
  • Transforming a Congregation through the Arts, Cheri Ellowitz
  • Faith in Art: Visual Culture and the Future of Judaism, Lance J. Sussman

 

POETRY

  • I Was at Sinai, Rick Lupert
  • Exercises in Uncertainty that Resolve in Embrace, James Stone Goodman
  • The Story of a Ring, Navah-Tehila

 

BOOK REVEWS

  • Blood, Resurrection, and New Paradigms in Dialogue—A Review Essay
  • Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews, Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson
  • Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians, David Biale. Reviewed by Daniel F. Polish
  • I Have a Story to Tell You. Edited by Seemah C. Benson. Reviewed by Susan Jacobson

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