Gender and Judaism in Conversation
FROM THE EDITOR
At the Gates
ARTICLES
Introduction to this Issue from the Guest Editor
Elyse Goldstein
SECTION ONE: FEMINISM STARTS THE CONVERSATION
Emerging Rabbis: It’s Too Soon to Proclaim “Mission Accomplished”
Jodie Gordon
Shechinah: The Divine Feminine
Geela Rayzel Raphael
Bat Mitzvah’s Delayed Coming-of-Age in Reform Judaism
Carole B. Balin
SECTION TWO: THE CONVERSATION WITH TEXT AND RITUAL
Learning Talmud Together: Reclaiming the Text through Feminist Chevruta
Audrey Pollack and Marcia Beck
Deconstructing Feminist Midrash: The Next Step in the Revolution of Revelation
Laurie Green
B’rit Milah: A Feminist Dialogue
Elyse Goldstein
Response to Rabbi Elyse Goldstein on B’rit Milah
Leah R. Berkowitz
The Hospital Poems of Zelda: A Spirituality for Ailing and Aging
Rachel Adler
SECTION THREE: THE CONVERSATION INCLUDES MEN
Brotherhood, In Memoriam? 1923–?
Doug Barden
Gender and the Soul of Men
Shawn Israel Zevit
Making the Minyan
Peter B. Schaktman
SECTION FOUR: BROADENING THE CONVERSATION BEYOND BINARY
Male and Female, God Created Them? The Intersex, Transgender, and Transsexual in Jewish Tradition
and in Our Lives
Margaret Moers Wenig
In God’s Image (B’tzelem Elohim)
Kate Levy
Rainbow Children Grown Up: Conversations on Jewish/Queer Identity and Communal Culture
Jane Rachel Litman
Two Women Marrying in the Tradition of Moses and Israel
Jaimee Shalhevet and Helayne Shalhevet
SECTION FIVE: THE CONVERSATION IN ISRAEL
On Gender Segregation in Israel
Anat Hoffman
Women Rabbis in Israel
Dalia Marx
RESPONSES TO PRIOR ARTICLES AND ISSUES
Reeve Brenner
Israel Zoberman
Allen Mahler
Scott Saulson
POETRY
Not An Amaryllis
James B. Rosenberg
Sense of Humor
Mindy Kronenberg
The King and Queen of Newbridge
Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan
Six to Six
Gayl Teller
BOOK REVEWS
The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival
Hirsh Goodman
Reviewed by Ron Kronish
For the Sake of Zion: Reform Zionism—A Personal Mission
Richard G. Hirsch
Reviewed by Henry (Hank) Skirball
All Is One? Current Theories—A Review Essay
Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition
Arthur Green
Everything Is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism
Jay Michaelson
Jewish Theology in Our Time
Edited by Elliot J. Cosgrove
Reviewed by Eric Caplan
Two Views of American Judaism—A Review Essay
Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal
Dana Evan Kaplan
Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics and the ArtScroll Revolution
Jeremy Stolow
Reviewed by Jeffrey I. Roth
