CCAR Journal - Summer 2022

Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate

Guest Editors: Rabbi Dr. Kari Tuling and Rabbi Mary L. Zamore

• At the Gates

• The Legacy We Leave Behind – Rabbi Sally J. Priesand
• Let my people go that they may serve You – Merle Feld
• Wives to the Rescue: The CCAR’s Epic Decision to Ordain Female Rabbis in 1922 – Rabbi Carole B. Balin, PhD
• Helen Levinthal: An Opportunity for T’shuvah and Justice at HUC-JIR – Rabbi Shirley Idelson, PhD
• Engaging in T’shuvah for Profanation of the Name: Responding to Reports of Systemic Bias and Abuse against Susceptible Groups in the Reform Rabbinate – Rabbi Dr. Kari Tuling
• The Reckoning – Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar
• The Task Force on the Experience of Women in the Rabbinate – Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, Rabbi Amy Schwartzman, and Rabbi Hara Person
• #MeToo, Rabbis, and the Ethics of Truth-Telling in Public – Rabbi Mira Beth Wasserman, PhD
• Shiru: Miriam’s Model for Leadership – Rabbi Sarah Berman
• B’not Dinah, The Daughters of Dinah: A Look at Our First Years – Rabbah Gila Caine and Rabbi Ayala Miron Translation by Rabbi Efrat Rotem
• For All Women Rabbis at Fifty Years – Rabbi Karen Bender
• Between the Blessings – Rabbi Barbara AB Symons, D. Min.
• Dance of the Zygote – Rabbi Zoe Klein Miles
• Answering Zusya’s Question: Becoming a Rabbi in Latin America – Andrea Kulikovsky
• Being a Lesbian Rabbi Pioneer in Britain – Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah
• The Reluctant Rabbi – Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun, D. Min.
• “It Is Time to Go Inside the Mishkan”: Liturgical Change in the Era of Women Rabbis – Rabbi April Davis
• Women Rabbis’ Understandings of Success: A Study – Rabbi Zari M. Weiss
• A Woman of Valor – Rabbi Séverine Sokol
• A Woman of Clergy – Rabbi Tzvia Jasper

• Dabri Torah: A Women’s Commentary to the Torah – Edited by Alona Lisitsa – Reviewed by Rabbi Bill Cutter
• Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question: Extending the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik – Benji Levy – Reviewed by Rabbi David Ellenson, PhD
• The Memory Monster – Yishai Sarid – Translated from the Hebrew by Yardene Greenspan – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood – Mark Oppenheimer – Reviewed by Rabbi Charles P. Sherman

• Poem for Willy Silber – Paul Hostovsky
• Pitching for the Apostates – Paul Hostovsky
• The Steps – Jane Seitel
• Friday Night Maccabees – Jane Seitel
• As it turns out, a great deal happens in Worms – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Licorice Fern – Carol V. Davis
• Shmita – Carol V. Davis
• Out Early with the Angels – Carol V. Davis
• Diaspora – Judith Skillman
• My Grandmother Rises – Judith Skillman
• The Pinchers – Judith Skillman
• The Alef – Mark Elber
• Moses on Mt. Nebo – Mark Elber
• Noah – Mark Elber
• Goliath – Mark Elber
• Draw Close – Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Ukrainian Sister – Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Viktor Frankl’s Cloak – Kate Powers, PhD

• Wounded and Wounding Healer: More Diagnoses – Rabbi Dr. Scott B. Saulson