From the Editor
At the Gates
Short Fiction
All the World’s Wealth.
Jonathan Wilson
First They Came for the Torahs .
Elizabeth Edelglass
Alone in the Garden (A Post-Lapsarian Lament).
Ruth Gais
People of the Stories.
Howard Schwartz
The Metamorphosis of Arye Leib
Simeon J. Maslin
Fridays After Sunset in Manhattan.
Matthue Roth
The Journey to Shabbat.
Stacey Blank
The Golem of Glendale
Oren J. Hayon
One Chimney, Two Cats
Roger Nash
Family Witness
Nancy Lefenfeld
Temple Ahavath Achim, the Congregation of Brotherly Love
Stephen S. Pearce
T’reif
Elaine Terranova
Sexagenarian Means Sixty Years Old Or Aspaclaria Means Mirror Sometimes Cloudy Sometimes
Clear Vision.
Dark Moss
James Stone Goodman
Articles
She Said, Catch and Kill, and #MeToo: Lessons for the Jewish Community: A Review Essay
Reviewed by Mary L. Zamore
The Asterisk Proposal
Elaine Rose Glickman
Viktor Frankl Gazes Out at the World from a Concentration Camp and Teaches Us How to Utilize That Gaze in Our Own Spiritual Lives
Admiel Kosman
Mima-amakim: The Adoption and Expansion of Imagery from Psalm 130 in Modern Hebrew Poetry and Culture
Sarah Grabiner
Being That God Is Being: Concerns about a Trend in Jewish Thought
Elliot B. Gertel
Ritual and Liturgy as Art Forms
Adam D. Fisher
Discovering the Tel Zayit Abecedary: A Review Essay
Reviewed by Edward Zerin
Maayanot (Primary Sources)
The SeMaK, A Handbook of Holiness.
Translation and Analysis by Steven Lebow
Avraham Sutzkever: A Jewish Poet’s Poem in 1943.
Translation and Commentary by Israel Zoberman
Book Reviews
Married to the Rabbi: Sixty Spouses of Retired Reform Rabbis in Their Own Words
Edited by Naomi Patz and Judith Maslin
Reviewed by David J. Zucker
A Life of Meaning: Embracing Reform Judaism’s Sacred Path
Edited by Dana Evan Kaplan
Reviewed by David J. Zucker
Radiance: Creative Mitzvah Living
Danny Siegel
Edited by Neal Gold
Reviewed by Joel Soffin
The Tragedy Test: Making Sense of Life-Changing Loss: A Rabbi’s Journey
Richard Agler
The Mystery of Suffering and the Meaning of God: Autobiographical and Theological Reflections
Anson Hugh Laytner
Reviewed by Daniel S Alexander
The Evolution of Kaplan’s Leadership and Radical Religious Hope: Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Edited by Mel Scult
Reviewed by Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia.
Stephanie Butnick, Leil Leibovitz, and Mark Oppenheimer
Reviewed by Wendy Pein
The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God
Mark Sameth
Reviewed by Elaine Rose Glickman
Poetry
On Rising
First Fruit
What We Can’t Give Back
Elegy: A Refusal
Dina Elenbogen
Moses and His Ultimatum
Philip Terman
Unpainted Pictures
Gutturals
Judith Skillman
My Mother Makes Challah
L’Chayim
In Praise of Blurs
Roger Nash
Oh, Worrisome Night
When I Am Down and Low
Edward Zerin
Ruach, Wind, Spirit.
Herbert Bronstein
Response to the Summer 2020 Symposium on Conversion
The Toshav Tzedek: Identity, Weddings, and Co-Officiation: Halachic Structural Connectives
Reeve Robert Brenner
