The Reconstructionist Journal
Volumes 59 - 72 / 1996 - 2007
| 2007 | Spring
[Volume 71, Number 2] Denominationalism |
Fall [Volume 72, Number 1] Judaism and Islam: Dialogues & Trends |
| 2006 |
Spring
[Volume 70, Number 2] Pairs of Perspectives |
Fall [Volume 71, Number 1] Liturgy |
| 2005 |
Spring
[Volume 69, Number 2] Jewish Ethics: Theory & Practice |
Fall [Volume 70, Number 1] The Reconstructionist at Seventy |
| 2004 |
Spring
[Volume 68, Number 2] Challenges and Responses |
Fall [Volume 69, Number 1] Sacred Space |
| 2003 |
Spring [Volume 67, Number 2] Reconstructing the Jewish Community |
Fall [Volume 68, Number 1] |
| 2002 |
Spring [Volume 66, Number 2] Texts & Contexts |
Fall [Volume 67, Number 1] In Dialogue with World Religions |
| 2001 |
Spring [Volume 65, Number 2] Decision Making |
Fall [Volume 66, Number 1] Jewish Identity |
| 2000 |
Spring [Volume 64, Number 2] Parenting and Partnering |
Fall [Volume 65, Number 1] Jews and Judaism in the Public Square |
| 1999 |
Spring [Volume 63, Number 2] Caring and Healing |
Fall [Volume 64, Number 1] The Role of the Rabbi |
| 1998 |
Spring [Volume 62, Number 2] Israel at 50 |
Fall [Volume 63, Number 1] New Midrash and New Ritual |
| 1997 | Spring - Fall [Volume 62, Number 1] The Arts in Jewish Life | |
| 1996 |
Spring [Volume 61, Number 1] Toward Healing and Justice |
Fall [Volume 61, Number 2] New Intellectual Currents |
| 1995 |
Spring [Volume 60, Number 1] Building Community |
Fall [Volume 60, Number 2] Kaplan and Us |
| 1994 |
Spring [Volume 59, Number 1] A Journal of Contemporary Jewish Thought & Practice |
Fall [Volume 59, Number 2] Negotiating Boundaries |
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| Alpert, Rebecca | Facing Infertility and Pregnancy Loss A review of Tears of Sorrow, Seeds of Hope: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Infertility and Pregnancy Loss by Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin. |
64, 2, pg. 63/Spring 2000 |
| Alpert Rebecca | Jewish Roots of the American Soul A review of Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Centuryby Andrew R. Heinze |
70, 1, pg. 124/Fall 2005 |
| Alpert Rebecca | Symposium on The Book of Blessings by Marcia Falk (Note, scroll down to middle of page.) |
62, 1, pg. 77/Spring-Fall 1997 |
| Amswych, Neil | Pluralism Limited A review of Dignity of Difference by Jonathan Sacks. |
67, 2, pg. 87/Spring 2003 |
| Berner, Leila Gal | Judaism in Feminist Hands
A review of Women Remaking American Judaism edited by Riv-Ellen Prell. |
72, 1, pg. 63/Fall 2007 |
| Black, Bruce | Translating Texts to Children
A review-essay of the Books of Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. |
66, 2, pg. 74/Spring 2002 |
| Blumenthal, Rena | The Returning Pintele Yid
A review of Journeys to a Jewish Life: Inspiring Stories from the Spiritual Journeys of American Jews by Paula Amann. |
72, 1, pg. 73/Fall 2007 |
| Bush, Lawrence | Going for Broke A review of The Jewish 1960s, An American Sourcebook edited by Michael E. Staub |
70, 1, pg. 114/Fall 2005 |
| Bush, Lawrence | Thinking About Male Jewish Identity A review of Searching for My Brothers: Jewish Men in a Gentile World by Jeffrey K. Salin and From Your Father's House ... Reflections for Modern Jewish Men by Kerry M. Olitzky. |
66, 1, pg. 67/Fall 2001 |
| Carmel, Reba | Mitzvah and Autonomy A review of Duties of the Soul: The Role of Commandments in Liberal Judaism, edited by Niles E. Goldstein and
Peter S. Knobel. |
68, 1, pg. 82/Fall 2003 |
| Cohen, Howard |
The Inner Life of the Spirit A review of The Language of Truth: The Torah Commentary of the Sefat Emet, Rabbi Yehudah Leib Alter of Ger Arthur Green, translator. (Note, scroll down to middle of page.) |
65, 2, pg. 86/Spring 2001 |
| Cohen, Michael | A Vocabulary of Spirituality A review of These Are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life by Arthur Green. | 65, 2, pg. 84/Spring 2001 |
| Dobb, Fred | Branching Out: The Growth of Jewish Environmental Literature A review of Trees, Earth, and Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology, edited by Ari Elon, Naomi Mara Hyman and Arthur Waskow; and Ecology & the Jewish Spirit, Where Nature & the Sacred Meet, edited by Ellen Bernstein. |
64, 2, pg. 79/Spring 2000 |
| Driesen, George | The Art of the Sermon A review of Witness From the Pulpit: Topical Sermons 1933-1980 by Harold I. Saperstein. | 66, 1, pg. 83/Fall 2001 |
| Driesen, George |
Time for a Paradigm Shift
in Jewish Thought A review of Judaism, Physics and God: Searching for Sacred Metaphors in a Post-Einstein World by Rabbi David W. Nelson |
70, 1, pg. 120/Fall 2005 |
| Eisenstein, Ira | Symposium on The Book of Blessings by Marcia Falk (Note, scroll down to bottom of page.) |
62, 1, pg. 80/Spring-Fall 1997 |
| Falk, Marcia | Symposium on The Book of Blessings by Marcia Falk (Response by Marcia Falk.) | 62, 1, pg. 83/Spring-Fall 1997 |
| Fenner, Natan | A Guide for the End of Life A review of Behoref Hayamim/In the Winter of Life: A Values-Based Jewish Guide for Decision Making at the End of Life, edited by David Teutsch and Deborah Waxman | 69, 2, pg 76/Spring 2005 |
| Fischlowitz-Roberts, Bernie | To Guard the Earth A review of “Torah of the Earth”: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought byArthur Waskow, editor. | 65, 2, pg. 80/Spring 2001 |
| Friedman, Dayle A | Facing Death and Grieving A review of Samuel A. Heilman’s When a Jew Dies . | 66, 1, pg. 88/Fall 2001 |
| Friedman, Reena Sigman |
350 Years of American Judaism A review of American Judaism: A History, by Jonathan D. Sarna. | 69, 1, pg. 72/Fall 2004 |
| Friedman, Reena Sigman | Emancipation and Modernity A review of After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity by David Ellenson | 70, 2, pg. 80/Spring 2006 |
| Friedman, Reena Sigman | Living Politically in Two Civilizations A review of The Politics and Political Culture of American Jews by Arthur A. Goren | 65,1, pg. 60/Fall 2000 |
| Fuchs-Kreimer, Nancy | Reviving American Families A review of three books by Mary Pipher. | 64, 2, pg. 57/Spring 2000 |
| Gillman, Neil |
Musings of the Master A review of Communings of ther Spirit, The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume I, 1913-1914 edited by Mel Scult. |
67, 2, pg. 76/Spring 2003 |
| Glicksman, Allen |
The New Rabbi and the New Rabbinate A review of The New Rabbi: A Congregation Searches for Its Leader by Stephen Fried. |
67, 2, pg. 61/Spring 2003 |
| Gluskin, Shai | Seeking a New Way for Jewish Education A review of Visions of Jewish Education, edited by Seymour Fox, Israel Scheffler and Daniel Marom. | 68, 2, pg. 87/Spring 2004 |
| Goldenberg, Roberg | Torah As Template for Midrash A review essay of Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment aand Community in America; The Five Books of Miriam: A Women’s Commentary on the Torah; and Lifecycles, Volume 2: Jewish Women on Biblical Themes in Contemporary Life. | 63, 1, pg.44/Fall 1998 |
| Goldstein, Seth | Membership, Identity and Status A review of The Jewish Political Tradition, Volume 2, “Membership,” eidited by Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, and Noam J. Zohar; co-editor, Ari Ackerman. | 68, 2, pg. 82/Spring 2004 |
| Goldstein, Seth | The Politics of Judaism A review of The ewish Political Tradition, Vol. 1, edited by Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorderbaum, and Noam J. Zohar, and co-edited by Yair Lorderbaum. | 65,1, pg. 54/Fall 2000 |
| Hecker, Joel | Gateways to Hasidism A review of The Hasidic Parable: An Anthology with Commentary, edited and translate by Aryeh Wineman. | 67, 1, pg. 58/Fall 2002 |
| Hecker, Joel | Laboring to Make Judaism Rational A review of Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism by Menahem Kellner. | 71, 2, pg. 96/Spring 2007 |
| Hirsh, Barbara | New Studies of Jewish Identity A review of Jewish Baby Boomers: A communal Perspective by Chaim I. Waxman and The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America by Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen. | 66, 1, pg. 60/Fall 2001 |
| Hirsh, Richard | New God or No God? A review of Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist by Lawrence Bush, and A Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology by Mitchell Silver. | 71, 2, pg. 101/Spring 2007 |
| Hoffman, Lawrence A. | Madrikh Larabbanim A review of the Rabbi’s Manual of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. | 63, 1, pg. 92/Fall 1998 |
| Holub, Margaret | Healing, Health and Holiness A review of Illness and Healing in the Jewish Tradition; Writings from the Bible Today edited by David L. Freeman, M.D. and Judith Z. Abrams. | 65, 2, pg. 73/Spring 2001 |
| Kamionkowski, S. Tamar | The Rise of the Jewish Bible A review of The Jewish Study Bible, edited by Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler and Michael Fishbane. | 69, 1, pg. 64/Fall 2004 |
| Kessner, Carole S. | Text and Canon A review of The Modern Jewish Canon by Ruth Wisse and Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture by Robert Alter. | 66. 2. Pg. 89/Spring 2002 |
| Klein, Leslie M. | Creating Sacred Spaces A review of Synagogue Architecture in America : Faith, Spirit and Identity by Henry and Daniel Stolzman. | 69, 1, pg. 60/Fall 2004 |
| Knobel, Peter S. | Perspectives on Prayer A review of Major Philosophers of Jewish Prayer in the Twentieth Century by Jack J. Cohen. | 67, 2, pg. 82/Spring 2003 |
| Leas, Speed B. | From Self to Community A review of Spiritual Community: The Power to Restore Hope, Commitment and Joy by David Teutsch. | 70, 2, pg. 89/Spring 2006 |
| Lefkovitz, Lori Hope | Reading Torah Through the Lens of Gender A review of The Women’s Torah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions, edited by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, and The Women’s Haftarah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot and Special Shabbatot, edited by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein. | 69, 1, pg. 83/Fall 2004 |
| Libowitz, Richard | Heschel in Tumultuous Times A review of Heschel in America by Edward R. Kaplan. | 72, 1, pg. 77/Fall 2007 |
| Magid, Shaul |
Rainbow Hasidism in America – The Maturation of Jewish Renewal A review essay of Wrapped in a Holy Flame: The teachings and Tales of the Hasidic Masters by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. |
68, 2, pg. 34/Spring 2004 |
| Mandel, Nina |
Responding to Intermarriage A review of Introducing My Faith and My Community: The Jewish Outreach Guide for the Christian in a Jewish Interfaith Relationship, by Kerry M. Olitzky and Interfaith Families: Personal Stories of Jewish-Christian Intermarriage, by Jane Kaplan |
69, 2, pg 86/Spring 2005 |
| Ochs, Vanessa | A Healing Methodology for Here and Now A review of Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex and the Rest of Life by Arthur Waskow. | 61, 1, pg. 92/Spring 1996 |
| Pik-Nathan, Marsha | Mapping the Spiritual Journey A review of The Journey Home: Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of the Jewish Tradition by Lawrence A. Hoffman. | 67, 2, pg. 91/Spring 2003 |
| Potok, Rena |
Writing the Jewish Self A review of Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American, edited by Derek Rubin. |
71, 1, pg. 70/Fall 2006 |
| Prell, Riv-Ellen | Appearance, Aging and Identity A review of Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture. | 64, 1, pg. 74/Fall 1999 |
| Prell, Riv-Ellen | Reading the Covenant A review of Covenant of Blood: Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism. | 63, 1, pg. 88/Fall 1998 |
| Ridberg, Yael | Journeys in Judaism A review of The Way Into...series from Jewish Lights Publishing. | 67, 1, pg. 69/Fall 2002 |
| Rieber, Moti | Jews and the Struggle for Civil Rights A review of Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. And the Jewish Community by Marc Schneier. | 65, 1, pg. 66/Fall 2000 |
| Sasso, Dennis, C. | Touchstones for Jewish Living A review of Finding Each Other in Judaism: Meditations on the Rites of Passage from Birth to Immortality by Harold M. Schulweis. | 66, 1, pg. 80/Fall 2001 |
| Scult, Mel | Reconstructionist Liturgy: A Window Into an Evolving Ideology A review of From Ideology to Liturgy – Reconstructionist Worship and American Liberal Judaism by Eric Caplan. | 67, 2, pg. 69/Spring 2003 |
| Segal, Sheila | Paradigms of Pastoral Presence A review of Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Resources, edited by Dayle A. Friedman. | 68, 1, pg. 86/Fall 2003 |
| Siegel, Burt | Play Ball! A review of What is Jewish about America's Favorite Pastime? Essays and Sermons on Jews, Judaism and Baseball, edited by Marc Lee Raphael and Judith Z. Abrams. | 71, 1, pg. 75/Fall 2006 |
| Siegel, Burt | Religion, Rights and Social Justice A review of Voices of the Religious Left by Rebecca Alpert. | 65, 2, pg. 90/Spring 2001 |
| Silow-Carroll, Andrew | Transforming the American Synagogue A review of Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Generation of Jews Can Transform the American Synagogue by Sidney Schwarz | 65, 1, pg. 92/Fall 2000 |
| Starr, Larry M. | Organizational Leadership as a Covenant A review of Leading with Meaning: Using Covenantal Leadership to Build a Better Organizatio , by Moses Pava . | 69, 1, pg. 88/Fall 2004 |
| Stein, Margot |
Women of the Bible A review of The Women Who Danced by the Sea, by Marsha Mirkin and Praise Her Works by Penina Adelman. |
70, 2, pg. 91/Spring 2006 |
| Stern, Elsie | Accessible Biblical Scholarship A review of The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn. | 72, 1, pg. 68/Fall 2007 |
| Teutsch, David | Symposium on The Book of Blessings by Marcia Falk | 62, 1, pg. 73/Spring-Fall 1997 |
| Weinberg, Sheila Peltz |
Eternal Questions, Prayerful Responsest A review of Filling Words with Light: Hasidic and Mystical Reflections on Jewish Prayer, by Lawrence Kushner and Nehemiah Polen |
69, 2, pg 91/Spring 2005 |