CCAR Journal - Summer 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

FOR OUR TEACHERS

• Jeremiah 17:5-8 and the Teachings of the Trees – Andrea L. Weiss
• The Climatic End to N’ilah: The Making of Tradition – Lawrence A. Hoffman
• Forgetting What We Think We Know: One Approach to Sage Narrative – Cathy Schechter
• Borowitz’s B’rachot – Jill Cozen-Harel

FROM THE SOURCES

• Remembering Jochebed – David J. Zucker
• Revelation at Sinai: toward a Feminist Understanding – Chelsea Feuchs
• Yismach Moshe: What Is the Reason for V’shamru in the Shabbat Shacharit Amidah? – Ian Silverman
• Who Knows What? Maimonides on the Philosopher, the Prophet, and Moses – Michael Eli Nutkiewicz

THIS PEOPLE ISRAEL

• “For the Sake of Zion”? Debating a Post- Nationalist Zionism – David Barak-Goredetsky
• On Self-Images and Jewish Identity – Benjie Gruber
• Renewing Abram’s and Sarai’s Unconditional Covenant or Why Be a Reform Jew? – Matthew A. Kraus
• Our Debt to Martin Luther – Daniel F. Polish

TO BE A RABBI

• TIn Praise of Preaching – David A. Whiman
• The Myth of Monogamy: Opening the Conversation about Polyamory and Judaism – Eliana Fischel

POETRY

• Sarah and Jacob–A Midrash – Henry Jacobson

BOOK REVIEWS

• A Democratic Mind and Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind – by Israel W. Charny, Reviewed by Samuel E. Kraff