CCAR
JOURNAL

A REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

WINTER, 1997

Published by the Central Conference of America Rabbis

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CONTENTS

From the Editor "At the Gate - Ba-sha'ar"

THE REFORM RABBI

Private Ordination--Need We Be Concerned?
Walter Jacob

Funding Rabbinic Education: Retrospect and Prospect
Gary Phillip Zola

Some Personal Memories of Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman
Leo Trepp

What I Learned from My Heart Attack
Stephen A. Karol

REFORM JEWISH THOUGHT

RESPONSUM: The Dual Religion Family and Patrilineal Descent
CCAR Responsa Committee

Is God Stronger than Death? Tehiyyat Hametim Reconsidered
Daniel S. Alexander

Whatever Happened to Reform Judaism?
Benno M. Wallach

INTERFAITH

Why Jews Should Be Interested in Biblical Theology
Marvin A. Sweeney

HEBREW

Are Qodesh
Me-et: William Cutter

POETRY

You!
Final Journey
Family Lies

James B. Rosenberg

God of Change
Mementoes

Israel Zoberman

Special passover seder
Adam Fisher

BOOK REVIEWS

A History of Bible Translation and the North American Connection
By Harry M. Orlinsky and Robert G. Bratcher;
Reviewed by S. David Sperling

The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity:
Essays in Postcritical Scriptural Interpretation

Edited by Peter Ochs;
Reviewed by Alan Cooper

Reform Jewish Ethics and The Halakhah:
An Experiment in Decision Making

Edited by Eugene B. Borowitz;
Reviewed by Walter Jacob

Between Tradition and Culture:
The Dialectics of Modern Jewish Religion and Identity

By David Ellenson;
Reviewed by Michael A. Meyer

Doctrine: Systematic Theology, Vol. II.
By James Wm. McClendon, Jr.;
Reviewed by Michael Goldberg

Riders Toward the Dawn:
From Holocaust to Hope

By Albert H. Friedlander;
Reviewed by Barry M. Altman

Abe's Story:
A Holocaust Memoir

By Abram Korn;
Reviewed by Joseph Korn

Kol Haneshamah:
Shabbat Vehagim

Reviewed by Ruth Langer

Invisible Lines of Connection:
Sacred stories of the Ordinary

By Lawrence Kushner;
Reviewed by Pamela A. Chaiet

Being God's Partner:
How to Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work

By Jeffrey K. Salkin;
Reviewed by Eliot J. Baskin

BREIFLY NOTED

BOOKS RECEIVED


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