CCAR Journal - Winter 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

• I Saw My God at the Café: “Secular” Israeli Women Poets Meet God – Dalia Marx
• Birds Finding Home: Three Women Poets Reconsidered – Sonja Keren Pilz
• Images of Jerusalem in Hebrew Bible – Jacqueline Romm Satlow

FROM THE SOURCES

• On “Blessing” and “Salvation” in the Tanach – Elliot B. Gertel
• On Reading Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination – Elizabeth Bahar
• From Aggadah to Halachah – Gilbert S. Rosenthal
• Purim and Her Sisters – Daniel F. Polish
• The Qur’an on Jews and Judaism – Reuven Firestone

POETRY

• You Dressed Yourself in Glory and Beauty – Adam Fisher
• Under My Zayde’s Tallit – Israel Zoberman

BOOK REVIEWS

• Forevermore & Other Stories – by S.Y. Agnon, Edited and Annotated by Jeffrey Saks, Reviewed by Laurence L. Edwards
• Guidance Not Governance: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa – by Joan S. Friedman, Reviewed by Dvora Weisberg
• The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, a View from Israel – By Ronald Kronish, Reviewed by Eric Yoffie