CCAR Journal - Spring 2020

FROM THE EDITOR

• At the Gates

ARTICLES

HALACHIC THEORY

• What Do We Mean When We Say, “We Are Not Halachic”? – Leon A. Morris
• Halachah in Reform Theology from Leo Baeck to Eugene B. Borowitz: Authority, Autonomy, and Covenantal Commandments – Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
• The CCAR Responsa Committee: A History – Joan S. Friedman
• Reform Halachah and the Claim of Authority: From Theory to Practice and Back Again – Mark Washofsky
• Is a Reform Shulchan Aruch Possible? – Alona Lisitsa
• An Evolving Israeli Reform Judaism: The Roles of Halachah and Civil Religion as Seen in the Writings of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism – David Ellenson and Micahel Rosen
• Aggadic Judaism – Edwin Goldberg
• Talmudic Aggadah: Illustrations, Warnings, and Counterarguments to Halachah – Amy Scheinerman
• Halachah for Hedgehogs: Legal Interpretivism and Reform Philosophy of Halachah – Benjamin C. M. Gurin
• The Halachic Canon as Literature: Reading for Jewish Ideas and Values – Alyssa M. Gray

APPLIED HALACHAH

• Communal Halachic Decision-Making – Erica Asch
• Growing More Than Vegetables: A Case Study in the Use of CCAR Responsa in Planting the Tri-Faith Community Garden – Deana Sussman Berezin
• Yoga as a Jewish Worship Practice: Chukat Hagoyim or Spiritual Innovation? – Liz P. G. Hirsch and Yael Rapport
• Nursing in Shul: A Halachically Informed Perspective – Michal Loving
• Can We Say Mourner’s Kaddish in Cases of Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Nefel? – Jeremy R. Weisblatt
• When Halachah Seems Silent: A Male Survivor in the Mikveh – Paul Jacobson

BOOK REVIEWS

• The Story of Dinah: Rape and Rape Myth in Jewish Tradition. – Gavi S. Ruit, Reviewed by Rachel Bearman
• A State at Any Cost (The Life of David Ben-Gurion) – Tom Segev; translated by Haim Watzman, A State at All Costs (David Ben-Gurion’s Life), Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
• Doing Business in America – Edited by Hasia R. Diner, Reviewed by Jeffrey Glickman
• To Dwell in Your House: Vignettes and Spiritual Reflections on Caregiving at Home – Susan Freeman, Reviewed by Rochelle Robins
• Opening Your Heart with Psalm 27: A Spiritual Practice for the Jewish New Year – Debra J. Robbins, Reviewed by Barry H. Block

POETRY

• Shalom Bayit – Roger Nash
• Playing the Saw – Roger Nash
• Sitting Shivah – Diana Rosen
• Haiku for the Fashion Minded – Diana Rosen
• To You – Sharon Dolin
• A dream that has not been interpreted is like a letter that has not been read – Sharon Dolin
• Ruth 1:17 – Julie R. Enszer
• Cake – Julie R. Enszer
• Not the End of the World – Paul Hostovsky
• Yahrzeit – Paul Hostovsky
• After Psalm 23 – Charles Bernstein
• A Mourner’s Kaddish – Charles Bernstein
• Stars Bolt the Sky in Place – Patty Seyburn
• No, I’m the Boy’s Mother – Patty Seyburn
• Haiku/Senryu – Bruce J. Pfeffer