Symposium: Gendered Judaism— Gender-Based Programs in Jewish Life
FROM THE EDITOR
INTRODUCTION
- Gendered Judaism: It’s Complicated – Marla J. Feldman
WHAT IS GENDER?
- The Future is Nonbinary? It’s Complicated: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Genders, Geographies, and Generations – Dr. Madelaine Adelman
- Gender and Jewish Collectivism: Learning from Women’s Business and Professional Networks – Dr. Nan S. Langowitz
SHE, HE, THEY: FINDING OUR PLACE WITHIN THE SPECTRUM
- A Group of Her Own: The Creation of Jewish Women’s Organizations – Carole B. Balin, PhD
- Sisterhood, Spirituality, and Social Good: The Power of Women – Marla J. Feldman
- WRN Is (Still) Needed – Mary L. Zamore
- Making Space for Jewish Boys and Men – Daniel S. Brenner
- Men of Reform Judaism: Why It Exists and What It Accomplishes – Larry Krasnoff
- Making Room for “They”: A Yes, And Approach to Nonbinary Inclusion and Single-Gender Spaces – Nikki DeBlosi, PhD, and Bonz Swencionis
GENDER-BASED PROGRAMMING IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
- Just Men, Just Women: The Benefits and Tensions of Single-Gender Small Groups in Congregations – Lydia Medwin
- Sacred Encounter: Women’s Rituals and Retreats – Jessica Kessler Marshall
- “Zebulun on Your Journeys and Issachar in Your Tents”: Thoughts on the Role of Temple-Based Brotherhoods Today – Jeremy Barras
- Women’s Seders: Still Rising – Emily E. Segal
- The Men’s Seder – Dan Moskovitz
A NEW GENERATION: GENDER AND YOUTH
- A New Holy Land: Educating Ourselves On and Celebrating Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Jewish Youth – Michelle Shapiro Abraham and Eliana Rubin
- Giving Jewish Girls the Space to Thrive, Push Back, and Push Us All Forward – Tamara R. Cohen
- Kol Koleinu: Lifting Up Teen Voices – Sophie Coker
- Jacob and Esau: Modes of Masculinity for Teenage Boys – Barry H. Block
ARTICLES
- Lessons of Eish Zarah: The Ritual Use of Kaneh-Bosm – Peter Margolis
- From the Slaves of Pharaoh to the Servants of God – Stephen Bertman, PhD
- The “Sin” Of Zelafchad – Ivan Silverman
- The Polemics of Leaven at Passover and Shavuot – Deborah Prinz
- Paul and the Heart of Christian Antisemitism – Dr. Mark Verman
MAAYANOT (PRIMARY SOURCES)
- A Tribute to My Teacher Rabbi Simon Krinsky: His Poetry Until 1936 – Edward Zerin
BOOK REVIEWS
- What Was—and Is—Hebrew Literature? A Review Essay: The Lady of Hebrew and Her Lovers of Zion – by Hillel Halkin – Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making Edited by Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff – Reviewed by Neal Gold
- Israel: Voices from Within – Edited by Barry Chazan, Shai Chazan, and Yehudit Werchow – Reviewed by Stacey Blank
- Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law – Edited by Simon Rabinovitch – Reviewed by Paul Golomb
- Catch-67 (The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War) – Catch-67 (In Hebrew) – Micah Goodman, – Translated by Eylon Levy, – Reviewed by Israel Zoberman
- A Thorough History, Yes; A Complete Story, Perhaps Not: A Review Essay: Mavericks Inside the Tent: The Progressive Jewish Movement in South Africa and Its Impact on the Wider Community – Irwin Manoim – Reviewed by Glynis Conyer and Emma Gottlieb, Input and reflections by Julia Margolis
- Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Life in Troubled Times – Michael A. Meyer – Reviewed by Joseph A. Skloot, PhD
- Thinking about God: Jewish Views – Kari H. Tuling – Reviewed by Rebecca Einstein Schorr
- Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History – Jane S. Gerber – Reviewed by Rifat Sonsino, PhD
- Never Alone – Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy – Reviewed by Wendy Pein
- The Vegan Revolution – Richard Schwartz – Reviewed by Elyse Goldstein
- The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets, Then and Now – Nahum Ward-Lev – Reviewed by Lisa Goldstein
- Death, Illness, and Aging: The Inheritance of Our Flesh: A Review Essay: Getting Good at Getting Older – Richard Siegel and Laura Geller – Reviewed by Bill Cutter
POETRY
- And Now, They Hold – Jeffrey A. Summit, PhD
- Origin Story, Revision – Patty Seyburn, PhD
- Early and Often – Patty Seyburn, PhD
- The “Lion’s” Grave (Kever HaAri) – Mark Elber
- Isaac – Mark Elber
- II Nehemiah and Primal Yiddish – Richard J. Fein
- Tashlich – Roger Nash
- Candle Lighting for Shabbat – Roger Nash
- Shuckling – Robert Nash
- Haifa Harbor – Michael Linder
- Hagbahah – Israel Zoberman
RESPONSE TO THE SUMMER 2020 SYMPOSIUM ON CONVERSION
- The Toshav Tzedek: Identity, Weddings, and Co-Officiation: Halachic Structural Connectives – Reeve Robert Brenner
