Contents
Special High Holiday Section
U-Netaneh Tokef:
Days of Judgment
Laura Duhan Kaplan
Ha-Yom Harat Olam:
Celebrating the World’s Birthday
Sara R. Horowitz
The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective Peace Makers
Debra R. Kolodny
The Picture of Prayer:
Kol Nidre, c. 1320 and 2010
David Stern
The Woman Rabbi
Diana Sher
Closing, Opening, Closing:
A Neilah Reflection
Susan P. Fendrick
Healing Meditations
Ariel Neshama Lee
Articles, Text Study & Divrei Torah
The Seven-Year Itch
Darcy Fryer
The Evolution of an American Rabbi:
A Conversation with Marc Gopin
Gilah Langner
The Dream of Exile:
A Rereading of Honi the Circle-Drawer
Hyim Shafner
Rachel and Leah:
A Jewish Model of Sisterhood
Nora Gold
Coercion or Covenant?
Jonathan L. Richler
Rahav Visited and Revisited
Andrew Vogel Ettin
Poetry, Midrash, & Fiction
The Promise
Tamar Stern
The Teterev River— As My
Mother Might Have Told It
Barbara M.White
These Are the Travels
Herb Levine
How It Got Into the Talmud
Irving F.Miller
The Transformation of Jacob
Ellen Jane Powers
Va-Yikra: God Called,
This Is the Blessing
Miriam Flock
Prayer Against Lust
Yehoshua November
From Water and Wilderness
Steven Weiner
…In a Strange Land
John J. Clayton
To You, Miriam
Malka Heifetz Tussman
Translated by Kathryn Hellerstein
Bitter Herbs
Steven Tarlow
We Once Were Slaves
Marsha Koretzky
The Song of Miriam’s Well
Rachel Adelman
Photographs
Hand to Hand
Zeva Oelbaum