WELCOME! In our final issue, Kerem is pleased to present a fine collection of new and former contributors’ writings on Jewish matters.
Volume 14: 2014-5775
Contents
The Student Who Met a She-Demon in the Study Hall
Gail Labovitz
A Dialogue of Lovers: Refashioning the Ketubah and Ring Ceremony
Gilah Langner
Genealogy; The Spice of the Sabbath
Howard Schwartz
Snake Mind, Conscious Mind: Revisiting Torah’s Serpents
Laura Duhan Kaplan
English Leyning: Bringing New Meaning to the Torah Service
Jack Kessler
Electricity: A Memoir (1995)
Yehudah Mirsky
Tachanun for a Modern Jew
Elyssa Joy Auster
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Holy Days: Special Section
The Gospel of Rabbi Amnon of Mainz
David Stern
Soften the Harshness of the Decree: Meditation Before U-Netaneh Tokef
Zahara Heckscher
Be Happy. Yom Kippur.
Julie Hilton Danan
Yom Kippur in Brooklyn (late 1930s)
Richard J. Fein
Confessions
Sara R. Horowitz
Hamulah Celebrates Sukkot
Richard Jay Goldstein
Elijah the Prophet — Fanatic or Healer?
Jonathan L. Richler
Let all who are hungry; Tzedakah
Marge Piercy
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Mikveh: A Tradition of Purity
Margalit Slovin
The Prophetess as Priestess: Women, Revelation, and the Sacred
Jill Hammer
She Who Receives Visions: The Practice of Dreamwork
Taya Shere
A Forgotten Poet of the Bible
Kathryn Hellerstein
Shulames
Roza Yakubovitsh
“Bright Moon Rises Over Heavenly Mountain:” Love and Torah Scrolls in Kaifeng
Irene Eber
Displaced Persons
Marc Kaminsky
Shloshim Journal
Susan P. Fendrick
Shiva
Akiva J. Savett
Words of Parting
Leon Wiener Dow
Saved
Sheri Lindner
A Spiritual Autobiography: How I Found Religion
Simcha Rachmiel
One Day Before…
Jonathan Kremer