CCAR Journal - Spring 2016

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

Toward a Vision of a Democratic Jewish State – Marc J. Rosenstein  

AGAINST THE TEXT

• Preaching against the Text: When the “Good Book” Isn’t – Erica L. Martin
• Difficult Texts – Suzanne Singer
• When God Repents – Joe Klein
• An Un-Fallen Woman – Paul Golomb
• “May Your Sould Be Bound Up in the Bond of Life”: Toward a New Liturgy for Taharah – Jeremy Weisblatt

MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)

• Two Sermons: Text Commentary – Marc Saperstein

FROM THE SOURCES

• Elijah: The peripatetic Prophet – Mark Verman

ON BEING A RABBI

• Theists and Non-Theists – Rifat Sonsino

POETRY

• An Accounting on the Day of Atonement – Daniel E. Bridge
• Nomenclature – Reeve Robert Brenner

BOOK REVIEWS

• For This You Were Created: Memoir of an American Rabbi – Samuel Karff, Review by Evan Moffic
• Worthwhile Books by Worthy Disciples of Mordecai M. Kaplan—A Review Essay – Elliot B. Gertel
  • A Jewish Philosophical Response to the New Atheists— Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens – William E. Kaufman
  • Democratizing Judaism – Jack J. Cohen