On Being a Rabbi, From the Sources, Poetry, and Book Reviews
FROM THE EDITOR
At the Gates
ARTICLES
ON BEING A RABBI
Audacious Education: Why Educating to the Boy Brain Educates All, Jon Hanish and Becky Hoffman
Addiction in Body, Mind and Jewish Spirituality, Paul Steinberg
Becoming Jewish in a Taxi: Borders and Behaviours on the Journey towards Judaism, Barbara Borts
To Wait for the Law to Change or Not to Wait, That Is the Question: A Guide for Same-Sex Couples and Rabbis on the Necessity of Using Private Law to Protect the Rights of Same-Sex Relationships, Sona Gala and Arthur Gross-Schaefer
FROM THE SOURCES
Philo on Moses, Joshua David Garroway
Secular(?) Versions of the Kaddish in the Kibbutz Movement, Dalia Marx
Was Rashi Wrong?: A Minor Mystery, Stephen M. Passamaneck
God Language: A Medieval Perspective, Leonard Kravitz
The Sh’ma as D’varim, Elliot B. Gertel
POETRY
Beyond, Rowena Silver
Passover’s Peace Partners, Israel Zoberman
Zayde Reeven, One, Two, Three, Reeve Robert Brenner
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Response to the RJQ Winter 2015, Israel Zoberman
BOOK REVIEWS
Our Religious Brains: What Cognitive Science Reveals about Belief, Morality, Community, and Our Relationship with God, Ralph Mecklenburger, Reviewed by Geoffrey A. Mitelman
Outside the Bible: Ancient Writings Related to Scripture, Edited by Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reviewed by David J. Zucker
The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season, Marcia Falk, Reviewed by Suzanne Singer
The Veterans of History: A Young Person’s History of the Jew, Mitchell Silver, Reviewed by John Friedman
The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors, Reeve Robert Brenner, Reviewed by Arnold S. Task