CCAR
JOURNAL

A REFORM JEWISH QUARTERLY

SUMMER, 1997


WISDOM YOU ARE MY SISTER
25 YEARS OF WOMEN IN THE RABBINATE


Published by the Central Conference of America Rabbis

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CONTENTS

Dedication: To Rabbi Sally J. Priesand

Introduction Rifat Sonsino, Editor

Introduction Donna Berman, Guest Editor

ENGENDERING CHANGE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

From Periphery to Center: A History of the Women's Rabbinic Network
Carole B. Balin

Luncheon Address, CCAR Convention, 1991
Ellen Lewis

Lost and Found: The Presence of Women in the Observance of Rosh Hashanah
Lisa A. Edwards

Transitions and Transformations: Creating Judaism for the Twenty-first Century
Sue Levi Elwell

Toward Sharing in the Dream
Stacy Offner

Sexual Harassment and Discrimination in the Rabbinate
Janet B. Liss

Lilith: Lust and Lore
Deborah R. Prinz

The Feminist Theological Enterprise
Lenore Bohm

The Unclosed Circle: Reflections on the Life of Martha Neumark
Bonnie Ann Steinberg

Saying Kaddish
Hanna Yerushalmi

VARITIES OF RABBINIC EXPERIENCE

Pirkei Savim: Wisdom of the Bubbes and Zaydes
Dayle A. Friedman

Windows onto My Journey
Karen A. Soria

A New Kind of Rabbinate: Reaching Out to Unaffiliated Jews
Laurie Rutenberg

Jewish Healing and the Ordination of Women as Rabbis
Nancy Flam

Three Woman Rabbis in Search of Nourishment
Ellen Lippmann, Sue Oren, Nancy Wiener Ritual and Liturgy

Jewish Feminism and "New" Jewish Rituals: Imitative or Inventive?
Elyse Goldstein

Weaving the Wisdom of Our Lives: A Bat Mitzvah Ritual
Zari M. Weiss

Tekes Ishur V'shleimut: A Ritual of Affirmation and Wholeness after Divorce
Lisa S. Greene and Laura Milsk

Tanat L'vat Yiftach: A Ritual Commemorating Jephthah's Daughter
Donna Berman

Creative, Artistic Responses to Jewish Tradition
Susan Freeman

The Sheva Brachot Reconsidered
Renni S. Altman

Liturgical Literacy and Meaningful Worship=D0=D0How Do We Get There?
Angela Graboys Rudner and Faith Steinsnyder Gurney

Prayer
Gaylia R. Rooks

MODERN MIDRASH

Eulogy for our Mother Miryam
Laura Metzger

Jephthah's Daughter
Marla J. Feldman

Dvorah: Beneath the Palm of Judgment
Judy Shanks

Sarah's Fire
B. Elka Abrahamson

A Page from Dinah's Diary: A Midrash on Women and Mentoring
Wendy Spears

TOSEFTA: ADDITIONAL VOICE

Roundtable Discussion, San Diego, March 1997

An Offering Made in Honor of Those Who Have No Time to Make an Offering
Karen Bender

IN MEMORIAM


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