Symposium Issue on Judaism, Health, and Healing
FROM THE EDITOR
At the Gate
ARTICLES
Introduction to this Issue from the Guest Editors
Michele Prince and Nancy H. Wiener
Spirituality and Religion in Health Care: A Rabbi’s Personal Journey
Samuel E. Karff
My Daughter or Son the Nurse: Jews in Nursing and the Healing Role of Nurses
Ellen Olshansky
The Kalsman Institute Research Roundtable: Building a Field of Judaism and Health
Michele Prince
Of Teachers and Angels: Jewish Insights on Transforming the Relationship between Patient and Health Professional
Carol Levy and Richard N. Levy
Standing in the Doorway: Pastoral Perspectives on In-Home Chaplaincy
Jo Hirschmann
Beyond Membership to True Belonging: Jewish Responses to an Unchanging Need for Deep Attachment and Meaning in an Ever-Changing World
Edythe Held Mencher
The Torah of Despair
Elliot Kukla
The Stigma of Infertility
Eleanor Steinman
Ruth, Naomi and Levina’s Other: Asymmetrical Pastoral Care
Ruth Gais
On Illness
Douglas Kohn
P’tach Libi B’Toratecha (Open My Heart to Your Torah): Jewish Pastoral Theology in Process
Barbara E. Breitman, Mychal B. Springer, and Nancy H. Wiener
Rabbi’s Support of Older Couples’ Second Marriages
Harriet Rosen and Marlene Levenson
A New Ritual for Healing and Well-Being
Geri Newburge
The Intermediate Blessings of the Amidah as the Model for a Personal Twelve-Step Program
Jeffrey Ableser
A Very Personal Reflection: Debbie Friedman’s Setting of Mi Shebeirach as a Sonata
Evan Kent
Standing in Life before God: Report and Reflection on One Congregation’s First Steps for Creating a Congregation-Based Program on Health and Wellness
Richard F. Address
Sacred Communities: The Potential for Synagogues to be Communities of Caring and Meaning in the Older Population
Marion Lev-Cohen
Experiencing Judaism through Thematic Temple Programming
Richard Steinberg
The Rabbi Does Handstands: An Exploration of the Emerging Field of Jewish Yoga in North American Synagogues and Beyond
Marcus J. Freed
Verbatim with God
Robert Tabak
MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)
The Origins of the Reform Concept of Prayer: An Eighteenth Century Essay by Isaac Euchel
Translation and Introduction
Michael A. Meyer
POETRY
I Met a Man Today
Daniel S. Alexander
Between Earthquake and Hurricane
Daniel S. Alexander
After Psalm 16
Daniel S. Alexander
A Meditation: Healing the Broken-ness
Paulette Rochelle-Levy
Not Knowing
Abby Caplin
MRI
Linda Hepner
Words of Wisdom from Four Poets
Dawn Gross, Paulette Rochelle-Levy, Allen S. Maller, Patti Tana
BOOK REVIEWS
Midrash and Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition
Edited by Rabbi William Cutter, Ph.D., Reviewed by Rabbi Rochelle Robins
No Offense, Self-Defense, and On the Fence: Rabbis in Search of American Jewish Identity-A Review Essay
What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth Century American Rabbis
Naomi W. Cohen
Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
Lila Corwin Berman
Jewish Preaching in Times of War 1800-2001
Marc Saperstein
Reviewed by Rabbi Richard Hirsh
