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This edition of CCAR Journal considers various scholarly issues, including a study of Bava M'tzia 59b, a discussion of Jacob Neusner and Reform Judaism, and an analysis of Joseph and Aseneth's marriage. Another article addresses equity riders in rabbinic employment contracts. The issue also contains new book reviews and poems.
- At the Gates
- Genesis 2 and B’nei Mitzvah at Eighty-Three – Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, PhD, and Rabbi Stanley M. Davids
- Jacob Neusner on Academic and Religious Authority, and Reform Judaism – Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel
- Further Thoughts on a Broken Oven: A Return to Bava M’tzia 59b – Rabbi Paul Golomb
- Love, Conversion, and Marriage: The Missing Story of Joseph’s Wife, Aseneth – Anthony Sheppard
- It’s Time to Include Equity Riders in Rabbinic Employment Contracts – Jamie Eisner, Esq., Rabbi Paul Kipnes, Michael Gan, Esq., Rabbi David Spinrad, and Rabbi Susan N. Shankman
- Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague – Susan Einbinder – Reviewed by Rabbi Nicole Roberts
- The Founding Father (Chaim Weizmann, Biography 1922-1952) – Motti Golani and Jehuda Reinhartz – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
- Dirshuni: Contemporary Women’s Midrash – Edited by Tamar Biala – Reviewed by Rabbi Sari Laufer
- Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge – Richard Ovenden – Reviewed by Rabbi Adam Rosenthal
- Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World – Brian Ogren – Reviewed by Rabbi Bailey Romano
- Longing: Poems of a Life – Merle Feld – Reviewed by Jack Riemer
- The Messiah Confrontation: Pharisees Versus Sadducees and the Death of Jesus – Israel Knohl – Reviewed by Rabbi Joshua Garroway, PhD
- A Brief History of the Alef – Howard Schwartz
- The Organ Recital – Rabbi Dr. Stephen S. Pearce
- Found in Psalm 23 – Jacqueline Jules
- The Average Israelite – Jacqueline Jules
- Vidui: Preface to an Unwritten Book – John H. Planer
- Moses in Midian – Stephen Bertman, PhD
- Walking the Labyrinth – Rabbi Pamela Wax
- All the Torah – Rabbi Pamela Wax
- Creation Questions 5783 – Mike Abram
- Saturday Morning Service – Robert Manaster
- The Blueness of Chagall’s Stained-Glass Windows – Robert Nash
- Chagall’s “Solitude,” 1933/34. – Robert Nash
- Noah – Bruce Zuckerman
- Jacob was Left Alone – Rabbi Dan Ornstein
Rabbi Edwin Goldberg currently serves as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Shalom of The Woodlands, in the Houston area. He received rabbinic ordination and a doctorate in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (in 1989 and 1994, respectively). He has authored several books, including: Midrash for Beginners, Heads and Tales: Stories of the Sages to Enlighten Our Minds, Swords and Plowshares: Jewish Views of War and Peace, Love Tales from the Talmud, Saying No and Letting Go: Jewish Wisdom on Making Room for What Matters Most. He served as the Coordinating Editor of the new Reform Jewish machzor, Mishkan HaNefesh. He also edited a companion commentary, Divrei Mishkan HaNefesh and has published many articles and sermons. Rabbi Goldberg has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami in the department of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies. He is also a graduate of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality.
