CCAR Journal - Fall 2022

The Family Issue

Editorial Team: Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman; Rabbi Lisa Sari Bellows; Rabbi Stacey Blank; Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, PhD; Rabbi Laura Lieber, PhD; Rabbi Beth Lieberman; Rabbi Daniel Reiser; and Rabbi Zachary Shapiro

• At the Gates

• Parenting in a Brave New World – Kristine Henriksen Garroway, PhD
• Family/Fragments – Michael Satlow, Phd
• “Reclaiming My Time”: The Orphan in Judaism Today – Rabbi Audrey R. Korotkin, PhD
• Why Are Jewish Families Complicated? Ask Jacob – Rabbi Leigh Lerner
• Family Systems and Stress for the Rabbi: Navigating Role Relationships – Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL
• Toward a New Framework for Reform Jewish Views on Polyamory – Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, PhD
• The Trope of Divorce – Rabbi Michele E. Lenke, DMin
• Family Estrangement—Yes, in the Jewish Community – Rabbi Judith Beiner
• From Rabbi to Client: Seeking Support in the Shadow of Pregnancy Loss – Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun, DMin
• When the Unthinkable Happens: Clergy Grieving a Child – Rabbi Ariel Milan-Polisar
• Celebrating Yom HaMishpacha in Israel – Rabbi Stacey Blank

• On Hannah and Hope: One Rabbi’s Fertility Journey – Rabbi Amy E. Goodman
• “For Me, It’s Just My Life”: Clergy Kids – Gabriella Bellows
• The Joys of Asperger’s: Raising a Jewish Child to Be a Mensch – Rabbi Jordan Parr
• Take My Hand, and We’ll Build Our Tomorrow – Rabbi Zach Shapiro
• The Rabbinate and Family Life – Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz
• Serving a New Community During Loss – Rabbi Maya Y. Glasser
• M’dor L’dor and Around Again – Rabbi Mimi Weisel and Rabbi Michael Shefrin

• Poetry by Almog Behar, Asher Reich, Esther Ettinger, Maayan Szternfeld, and Gilad Meiri – translated by Rabbi Stacey Blank

• Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy – Noam Sachs Zion – Reviewed by Rabbi Dvora Weisberg, PhD
• The Netanyahus – Joshua Cohen – Reviewed by Rabbi Barry Block
• HaBat HaYechidah (The Only Daughter) – A. B. Yehoshua – Reviewed by Rabbi Gili Tzidkiyahu, Review translated from Hebrew by Rabbi Stacey Blank
• The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects – Laura Arnold Liebman – Reviewed by Rabbi Melanie Aron
• Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century – Sarah Abrevaya Stein – Reviewed by Rabbi David J. Zucker, PhD
• The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed – Wendy Lower – Reviewed by Rabbi Beth L. Schwartz
• When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains – Ariana Neumann – Reviewed by Rabbi Lisa Delson
• From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family – June Cummins with Alexandra Dunietz – Reviewed by Rabbi Wendy Pein
• Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love – Dani Shapiro, Reviewed by Rabbi Suzanne Singer

• Mothering in the Belly of the Whale – Deborah Bacharach
• For my son, on the occasion of your graduation from elementary school – Deborah Bacharach
• Empty Prayer – Judith Skillman
• Internal Family Systems – Judith Skillman
• Not Spoken Here – Jane Seitel
• Walking Backwards – Dan Alter
• What I Learned – Carol V. Davis
• In Every Generation – Carol V. Davis
• Where I’m from – Diana Rosen
• Day of the Dead for a Non-Mexican – Diana Rosen
• Goldie, Aleha HaShalom – Roger Nash
• An Antique Chuppah – Roger Nash
• Homage – Roger Nash
• Of a Harmonica and Kippah – Roger Nash
• Tools – Roger Nash
• My Dad Playing Ping Pong in the RCAF Rec Centre with Howard Nemerov, 1942 – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Or After That – Patty Seyburn, PhD
• Dear Mom – Paul Hostovsky
• Shaving My Father – Rabbi Mark Elber
• Forgive Me – Rabbi Mark Elber
• Prophylactic Contralateral Mastectomy – Josette Akresh-Gonzales
• You Are Now Sharing Your Location – Matthue Roth
• I forgot to buy apples today – Ronda Piszk Broatch
• 9 May 1942—Łódź Ghetto, Poland – Ronda Piszk Broatch
• Self-Portrait with Olga in Łódź – Ronda Piszk Broatch
• my grandfather once threw a gestapo man over a desk – Lonnie Monka
• My Mistake – Lonnie Monka
• What Shall I Say to My Children? – Rabbi Edward Zerin, PhD