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Volume 1
Winter 1992/93
Articles, Divrei Torah
Who Was That Masked Man? Reflections on Moses, Batman and Agnon
Dan Shevitz
The Stories We Tell: Narratives in the Yom Kippur Liturgy
Sara R. Horowitz
Searching for Meaning, or, The Meaning of the Search
Ira F. Stone
Reversing the Garment: On Language and Translation in Jewish Prayer
Joel Rosenberg
The Role of the Shaliach Tsibur
Jeffrey Summit
Made According to His Desire: The Prayers of Woman and the Fears of Man
Lori Hope Lefkovitz
Dressing for Shabbat
Larry Magarik
Science, Religion and a Medieval Philosopher
Norbert Samuelson
When Law Cannot Bind: The Example of Niddah
Leonard Gordon
What Does God Know?
Yehudah Mirsky
The Making of an American Rabbi: An Interview with Richard Israel
William Novak
Poetry, Liturgy & Midrash
Jerusalem Diary (excerpts)
Kathryn Hellerstein
Two Liturgical Poems
Marge Piercy
Tefillat Ha-Geshem
Joel Rosenberg
Meditations on Sh'ma and the Amidah
Janet Berkenfield
Seven Wedding Blessings
Gilah Langner
Brit Banot: Covenant Ceremonies for Daughters
Debra Cantor & Rebecca Jacobs
King Solomon Asks for a Hearing Heart
Danny Siegel
Ten Midrashim
David Curzon
The Song of Solomon's Daughter...
Geoffrey Hartman
I Turned Into
Rivka Miriam
A Word Before the Last, About Loss
Linda Zisquit
Drawings
Alex Singer
Volume 2
5754
Winter 1994
Articles & Midrash
Rebekah and Isaac: A Marriage Made in Heaven
Norma Rosen
The Art of Halakhah
Yehudah Mirsky
Women and the Gulf War: A Personal Perspective
Karen Alkalay-Gut
Bris Milah
Dale Lieberman
Simhat Torah Intimations: The Bridegroom of Bereshit
Sara R. Horowitz
Starting Kol Nidre
Gilah Langner
Imagining Sarah
Chana Thompson
Standing for Michael
Jonathan Silin
Verse From Afar: Approaching Biblical Texts
David Curzon
Checking in with Moshe Waldoks
William Novak
At the Crossroads: Reflections on Ruth
Ruth Knafo Setton
Stories, Liturgy & Poetry
The Image and the Likeness
Ira F. Stone
The Gift-Wrapper
Wayne-Daniel Berard
Lilith, After the Settlement Conference
Naomi Zvirman
Flight
Marcia Lipson
Sketches of Immigrant Life: The Fence
Solomon Ary, translated by Sacvan Bercovitch and Rachael Ary-De Rozza
Ve-Ahavt
Nina Judith Katz
The Avodah Service: A Metric Translation of Amitz Koah
Joel Rosenberg
Prague Moon
Sara Putney Weisberger
Two Yizkor Prayers
Ira F. Stone
Yizkor
Ray Shankman
Parable
Aryeh Cohen
Volume 3
5755
Spring 1995
Articles, Divrei Torah
The Grandson of Laban Makes Everything Right
Fran R. Robins Liben
Lighting the Sabbath Candles: Women's Prayers and Poems
Kathryn Hellerstein
A Conversation with Arthur Green
William Novak
Learning Chesed: Community Service in a Kindergarten Classroom
Ilana M. Blumberg
Shabbat in Hamburg
Norbert Samuelson
Balaam's Secret
Dan Shevitz
Stories & Poetry
Sonya
Yehudah Mirsky
First Family
Robert Danberg
Passing Over
Norman Finkelstein
Memory Candle
Mark Mirsky
The Lives of Isaac
Jeff Friedman
Isaac in the Dark
Hilary Tham
Psalms
Debbie Perlman
Liturgy
Hallel: Songs of Human Joy: A New Translation and Annotated Commentary
Larry Magarik
Volume 4
5756
Winter 1995-96
Articles & Divrei Torah
Two Shuls
Yehudah Mirsky
Talking with Blu Greenberg
William Novak
A Wakeful Heart: Thoughts on Rosh Hashanah
Sara R. Horowitz
A Ceremony for Remembering, Mourning, and Healing After Miscarriage
Lois Dubin
And Abraham Said "No!"
Lewis John Eron
The Practice of Jewish Meditation
Spencer Adler
Some Contemporary Interpretations of Jacob's Ladder
David Curzon
Becoming Old, Becoming Wise: Toward a Torah of Evolving Expectations
Rebecca Jacobs
Stories & Poetry
The Eyes of Tashlich
Shel Krakofsky
To Conceive a World
Karen S. Mittelman
Folklaw
by Ira Gold
Golem
Larry Oakner
Forms of Blue
Harrison Tao
On Her First Yahrzeit
Barbara D. Holender
October
Wayne-Daniel Berard
Photography
Majdanek
Arnold Kramer
Faces and Facets
Shai Zakai
Volume 5
5757
Spring 1997
Articles, Liturgy, & Divrei Torah
The Plagues: A Developmental-Psychological Interpretation
Sheri Lindner
Creativity and Text: New Paths to Tsitsit and Tefillin
Judith Z. Abrams
Women, Tefillin, and the Stories of the Law
Yehudah Mirsky
Do Nice Girls Lay Tefillin?
Sara R. Horowitz and Gilah Langner
Hineni
Susan L. Oren
Psalm 121 and 121F: Two Translations
Barbara Ellison Rosenblit
Kiddushin and Kesharin: Toward an Egalitarian Wedding Ceremony
Cheryl Beckerman
Haftorah Blessings
Lori Lefkovitz
So Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
An Internet Inquiry
Stories, Poetry, & Photography
Coda
Jeffrey Gilden
Milcah
Jill Hammer
King David
Jeff Friedman
In the Spring These Small Deaths
Carol V. Davis
The Red Tent: Prologue
Anita Diamant
A Bintel Briv
Deborah Brody
Yiddish, Just After Dawn
Richard Fein
Bones
Roy Strassburg
My Mother and the Man Who Called the Ambulance
Karen Surman Paley
A Love Story
Kathryn Hellerstein
For The Leader, With String Music
Joseph M. Lipner
Volume 6
5759
1999
Interview
A Conversation with Lawrence Kushner
Do we need bingo nights and banquets in our shuls? Can we get past our third-grade theology? And how about those awful responsive readings? Noted rabbi and author Larry Kushner offers an original perspective on American Judaism and what we can be doing better. By William Novak
Feature Articles
Binding the Beast: Yetzer Hara and the Psychology of Evil
A Harvard professor of psychiatry revisits the ancient Jewish concept of the "evil inclination" to discover an integrative approach to dissociative identity disorder. By Dr. Ronald Pies
A Tribute to Ze'ev Falk
An extraordinary mind and heart were lost to the world in 1998. A moving tribute by Rabbi Marc Gopin, and a new English translation of an essay on "peace theology" from Ze'ev Falk.
Divrei Torah
Three Views of Sotah
The ordeal of bitter waters which the Sotah -- the adulterous woman -- undergoes stands as one of the most offensive passages in the Bible for egalitarian readers. Can a new reading calm the bitter waters? By Gilah Langner
Envisioning the Promised Land
Moses as unrequited lover? What did Moses see when he gazed from afar at the land he had for so long yearned for, the land he would never reach? By Sara R. Horowitz
Parents and Children
A Rosh Hodesh Ceremony for Bat Mitzvah Daughters
Forget the Modess brochures and the slap on the face! Sherry Rosen takes us through a recent ritual for three bat mitzvah girls developed by their mothers' Rosh Hodesh group.
On Fathers and Daughters
Aryeh Cohen explores the mystical element in teaching a precious child Torah -- a daughter, at that!
Parsha Terumah, My Father's 30th Yortsayt
A poetic tribute by Michael Steinlauf
Yizkor, Yom Kippur 1998
A grown man reflects on the first time he heard kaddish as a child of five, standing next to the father he now mourns. By John Spiegel
Stories
Little Pesach on the Prairie
Even for New Mexico, Levi ben Zalma is having a most unusal Passover. A story for adults and children too. By Richard Goldstein
The Ladies Anti-Beef Trust Association
A true shandah far di goyim. By Garth Wolkoff
Midrash
A new look at the nakedness of Adam and Eve, by Rabbi Anson Laytner, and Nachshon Rabbi Michael M. Cohen
Photography
First Wave
An acclaimed series of photographs taken of Russian immigrants arriving at formerly Lod Airport, Israel in the early 1970s.
By Sherry Suris
Dance
Seven Pits
A finger-dance in two acts and 12 minutes, based on a passage in the Talmud. Got that? By Solomon G. Jacobson and Robert Rovinsky
Poetry
Snowflakes, my mother called them
Marge Piercy
The Believers in Mercy
Sharon Dolin
Beduins Can Find Their Mothers
Doreen Stock
Yom Kippur
Sheila Freeman
Departure of the Sabbath Queen
Richard Chess
Rabbi Akiva in Jerusalem
Leo Haber
Leo
Jay Liveson
Volume 7
5761
2001
Contents
Interview
Talking with the Ticktins
From Vienna and the Jewish Theological Seminary, from the anti-war movement to the havurah, noted teachers and mentors Esther and Max Ticktin discuss the spiritual and personal transformations of two examined and intertwined Jewishly creative lives.
By Gilah Langner
Feature Articles
Architecture and Ecstasy: A Reading of the Song of Songs
Doreen Stock walks us through the physical spaces of the Song of Songs -- an unusal backdrop for the maturation of a young shepherd girl into grown woman.
The Broken Tablets and the Whole: A Shavuot Exploration
What does the Talmud mean when it says that both the whole tablets of the Law and the broken ones were placed in the ark? Ellen Frankel and Herb Levine share with us their Shavuot exploration of human frailty and loss.
A Tribute to Dick Israel
Teacher, rabbi, mentor, Hillel director, storyteller, beekeeper, and marathon runner, Rabbi Richard J. Israel z"l left large footsteps to fill. Here are two previously unpublished gems: excerpts from a Rosh Hashanah drash and "Rav Pappa and Family."
A Kavanah for a Widowhood Journey
A moving meditation at the conclusion of reciting kaddish, composed by Rabbi Karen Gluckstern-Reiss in memory of her beloved husband.
An Adult Coming of Age
How can women remain independent and still be in loving partnerships? Karen Kopciak describes the task of figuring out for ourselves what coming of age -- bat mitzvah -- means for adults.
Divrei Torah
Of Kings and Wives and Babes: Pursuing Tzedek
Pity the mighty King Solomon -- he loved 1,000 women, but did he like any of them? A new reading of Solomon's wisdom and judgment -- what the king might have learned from his wives, had he thought to ask.
By Sara R. Horowitz
Transforming a Text: Comments on Tzav
A novel way of transforming biblical passages about sacrifices and cult ritual into a modern spiritual message.
By David Curzon
On the Lighter Side
Internet Humor: Hilchot Aufruf
You want to throw candies in shul? You gotta know the rules. As always, if the real author owns up, we'll be happy to attribute this piece.
Getting Engaged in the Himalayan Mountains:
Lubavitcher Rabbis, Tuna Fish, and Thou
by Rabbi Dan Judson
A Prayer for Those Who Don't Talk in Shul
A 16th century prayer for a thoroughly modern vice. Translated, and with a commentary, noch, by Rabbi Kenneth L. Cohen.
Stories
Family Language
Israeli author Elisha Porat relives his grandfather's death in his dreams, years before he was born. A beautiful melding of mystery and memory.
The Song of the Heart: A Shabbat Children's Story
Can a grumpy farmer stay grumpy after the rebbe comes to visit on Shabbat?
By Rabbi Leila Gal Berner
Wailing with Grandma
Sirens, car chases, and the Old City. A teenager shleps his grandmother around Jerusalem on a memorable family visit.
By Henry Alan Paper
Midrash and Poetry
Lilith and the Letter Shin: A Midrash about Perfection and Wholeness
If a baby hadn't cried just as Lilith picked up the letter shin, would the shin still look the way it does?
By Nancy Gall-Clayton
The Poetry of Arno Nadel
Martin Wasserman introduces us to the work of German poet Arno Nadel, appearing for the first time ever in English translation.
Ten, Jonah
Seymour Mayne
Four Poems from The Face in the Window
Linda Zisquit
Bible Lessons
Lisa Katz
Minyan
Steven Sher
The Cave of the Holy Child
Steven Tarlow
Troyes
D.A. Feinfeld
Unfinished Poem
Shirley Kaufman
A Piece of Silk
Lynn E. Levin
For Esther (and women like her)
Sheila Freeman
Ironing
Daniel Green
Volume 8
5763
2002
Contents
Articles
Using Personal Prayer for Healing
Spiritual support groups give people who are suffering from pain or loss an opportunity to access the tools of Jewish healing.
By Carol Popky Hausman, Ph.D.
Divrei Torah
Magic and Ritual on Yom Kippur
The magical layer of the Yom Kippur ritual helps us connect to the power of the Day and the mercy of God.
By Perry Dane
Prayer
Oseh Shalom
By Barbara Holender
Meditation
By Avi Bloom
Sundry Blessings
By Lynn Levin
Interview
Conversations with Rabbi Ira Eisenstein z”l
Thoughts on theology, prayer, ethics and halakhah, and change within Judaism, from a noted teacher and thinker. The founder of the Reconstructionist movement reflects on the development of the movement, and on the influence of Mordecai Kaplan, his close collaborator and father-in-law.
By Gilah Langner
Fiction
Samson’s Honey
The riddle of the honey and the mystery of the long hair – and oh! those Philistine women!
By Mark Mirsky
Ritual
A New Take on Kiddushin: Halakhic, Egalitarian, Non-Heterosexist
Can a marriage ceremony be egalitarian and non-heterosexist, and – at the same time – halakhic? An innovative ritual, attentive to the principles of Jewish law and contemporary sensibilities, leads to a consideration of what halakhah means.
By Shalom Flank
A New Reading of Haftorah on Rosh Hashanah
A chantable English translation of the haftorah for the first day of Rosh Hashanah – the story of Hannah. Trop marks included!
By Clare Feinson
Midrash
Juxtapositions: Midrashic Images
Paintings that explore parallels in the lives of Biblical ancestors and events in contemporary life.
By Janet Shafner
Eve
After their exile from Eden, Life and Earth must begin anew. The magic of language and a helping angel point Earth to her journey of discovery.
By Amy Bitterman
Sarah Laughed
By Susan Thomas
Ha-Makom
By Barbara D. Holender
Wrestlers
By Pete Wolf Smith
Poetry
Withdrawal
By Robert Monaster
Sketches for an Oral Scripture
By Ira Stone
Photography
Ervah: Hidden Sensuality
A New York photographer dons the head coverings of different religious communities.
By Na’ama Batya Lewin
The Lighter Side
New York Gothic
A mystery of power, minyans, and gabai’m
By Cary L. Friedman
Volume 9
5764
2004
Contents
Articles
A Conversation with Anita Diamant
What converts bring to Judaism, what Jews should stop doing toward converts, why you might want to go to the new Boston mikveh and never get wet, and lots more ... from the acclaimed author of The Red Tent, in a sparkling interview with noted writer William Novak.
Honey from the Rock: A Brit Bat for Our Daughter
Making a brit bat both physical and covenantal.
By Ketura Persellin
Holiday-Related
When Do We Eat?
Eating is not a sideshow at the Passover Seder: It used to be the main event. How do we bring back a merger of holy telling and sacred eating?
By Larry Magarik
Fathers and Sons
A reflection on the four sons of the Haggadah and the sons of Samuel and David in the Bible: Not every father gets the son he wants.
By Sara R. Horowitz
The Four Generations
By Sybil Wolin
Do I Have to Be Happy?
How is Sukkot like surviving cancer? Reflections from the front lines, by Rachel Braun.
Holidays
Misha Angrist takes a light look at going home for the holidays.
Divrei Torah
Of Goats and Scapegoats
From cleaning out hametz to Kol Nidre, from Azazel to Had Gadya - the links between Yom Kippur and Passover are instructive.
By Jody Myers
Whose Responsibility? A Dvar Torah on Boundaries
A conflict in Torah laws leads to an understanding of the limits of human responsibilities.
By Jonathan Richler
The Second Tent
There were two tents in the wilderness, each with a very different modality of connecting to God, explains Rabbi Edward Elkin.
Prayer and Text
Leyning is a Passion
An expert Torah reader reflects on his lifelong passion.
By Bernard Horowitz
Morning Blessings
Put down the siddur, open up your soul: The 15 morning blessings in the daily service are a simple, profound spiritual practice.
By Gilah Langner
Justice, Integrity, Friendship, and Suffering; A Reading of Job
It’s not what you think: Job is a critique of a naive sense of justice in which people get what they deserve.
By Norbert Hornstein
An Amidah Moment
A boy, tzitzit, and Rosh Hashanah.
By Sheri Lindner
Fiction and Midrash
The Fifth Question
A powerful story of a mother and son, and an unforgettable Seder.
By Robin Martin
Morning Minyan
Morning services will never quite be the same after this fast and furious look at the daily minyan.
By Lior Klirs
Midrash on the Eve of a Huppah
By Shai Cherry
Poetry
The Ninth Plague
By Yakov Azriel
Poem for Jonah’s Bar Mitzvah
Kathryn Hellerstein
Babysitter
By Yosefa Raz
Cain
By Eve Grubin
Yosehv B’Sukkah
By Tamar Stern
Remains
By Janet R. Kirchheimer
A Little Bit of Family History
By Hamutal Bar-Yosef
Hattusas
By Daniel A. Harris
Azazel
By Lynn Levin
Reading Yiddish
By Richard Fein
Art
Kaddish and Other Work
Letters and words form the basis of this New York striking visual language.
By Jane Logemann
Linocuts
By Judybeth Greene
Volume 10
5766
2005-2006
High Holidays
The Memory of High Holidays
From grandmother to mother to daughter, the Unetaneh Tokef prayer echoes our desires and fears, life’s wholeness and losses.
By Sara R. Horowitz
Prayer for Yom Kippur
By Ann Metlay
The Witness of the Ram (poem)
By Daniel A. Harris
Avodah (poem)
By Barbara D. Holender
City of Man
A retelling of the story of Jonah, traditionally read on Yom Kippur afternoon.
By Scott Mintzer
Memories
The Floating Law (a story from my grandmother)
By Joshua Cohen
Against Building Walls: A Visit to the Family Cemetery
Sometimes, well-meaning efforts to preserve the past get in the way of the future.
By Shamu Fenyvesi
Entering the House of Israel
Inside one woman’s journey to becoming the newest Jew on the planet.
By Lori Holder-Webb
A Conversation with Yehuda Elberg, z”l
The noted Yiddish writer, textile engineer, partisan fighter, collector of Judaica, and much more, reflected on his full life in a series of interviews with Gilah Langner before his death in 2003.
The Hasid Who Discovered Oil in the Carpathian Mountains
A true story.
By Leon Thorne, z”l
Truck Turner’s Shul
From midtown Memphis, East Memphis seemed like the promised land.
By Hillel Grossman
Text Study
The Biblical Question
A learned discourse on a surprisingly common but relatively unstudied element of the Bible: the question.
By Joel Rosenberg
Poetry, Midrash, & Liturgy
Lech Lecha
From a series of poems on each of the parshiot of the Torah
By Laurie L. Patton
Elisheva’s Lament
By Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz
Jacob’s Betrayal: A Midrash
By Rachel Atwood
Wedding Poem
By Joan Gelfand
Brit Bat & Brit Milah
Naming poems to be recited at the covenant ceremonies of a girl or boy
By Davi Walders
The World Can Be Changed, We Can Be Healed
A poem for Passover and other times of the year
By Corie Feiner
Why I Left a Plum...
By Ben-David Seligman
Knowledge Of
By Ruth Berman
Different
Why was this Seder night different from all others?
By Wayne-Daniel Berard
Volume 11
5768 / 2007-2008
Contents
Holidays
The ABCs of Confession
David Stern
A High Holiday Memoir
Raymond P. Scheindlin
Sukkot
Jehanne Dubrow
Shelter Me in a Leaf
Kathryn Hellerstein
Lifecycles
Mystery of the Covenant:
A New Ceremony of Simchat Brit
Debra Ruth Kolodny
Ritual of Release
Paula Marcus, Eli Cohen, and Lori Klein
A Kaddish Journal
Ruby Newman
Divrei Torah
The Mystery of the Unknown
and the Unknowable: A Dvar Torah on Shabbat Parah
Jonathan Richler
Three Easy (Torah) Pieces
Jonathan Kremer
Articles
Back to the River
Shalom Eilati
Haggadah l’Yom Zechuyot Shel Adam: A Human Rights Haggadah
Sheila Peltz Weinberg & Margaret Holub
Inviting the Demons In:
A Hasidic Approach to Suffering, Failing, and Conflict
James Jacobson-Maisels
Sweet Speech – Lashon Ha-arev
Shai Cherry
Great Rabbi Stories
Gilah Langner with Robert Saks, Allan M. Langner, Michael Swarttz,
Leila Gal Berner, Michael Feshbach, Ethan Seidel, and Carol Glass
Poetry, Midrash, Fiction, Art, Music
Psalm for Wednesday
Shari Goldman Gottlieb
Circles Within Circles
Lloyd Wolf (photo essay)
Shir Hadash: To Us All
Mark Novak
Ploni Almoni
Ethan Seidel
Yocheved’s Story
Hilene Flanzbaum
Middle Gate
Ira Stone
The Adventurer
Joseph Lipner
The Tempting
Sue Swartz
Deluge
Jacob J. Staub
A Woman Asks to Be Named
Yiskah Rosenfeld
Kaddish for My Father
Elaine Starkman
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