Contents
Special Shavuot Section
Sinai
Michael S. Glaser
Manna
Howard Schwartz
Manna
Tamar Stern
Parashah Meditations
Dale Lupu and Richard Gladstein
The Night Before My Mother’s Bat Mitzvah
Kathryn Hellerstein
Moses, Ruth and David
Allan M. Langner
Articles and Divrei Torah
Yearning to Pray
Laura Duhan Kaplan
The Healing Power of Saying Kaddish for a Suicide
Chaya Gusfield
Expanding Faith
Emily Goldberg
Potiphar’s Wife
Brenda Seabrooke
Balaam’s View
Amy E. Schwartz
Discovering EcoJudaism
Hersh Mendyl Shatzka
Poetry, Midrash, & Fiction
Eve and Lilith Back at the Garden
Lynn Levin
Imagining the Rebbe: Two Works in Progress
— Der Geyer
Menachem Boraisha, trans. by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
— Closure
Daniel Y. Harris
The Sixth Maccabee
Richard Jay Goldstein
Why Rabbi Hiyya Bar Abba Complained of Rabbi Abbahu
James Toupin
Making Amends
Fiction by Tom Walker
A Look Ahead at High Holy Days
The Brutality of Repentance
David Stern
Neilah #1 and #2
Ken Seide
The Gorilla and My U-Netaneh Tokef Problem
Susan P. Fendrick
Art
Layers of Light Tik
Beaded Mezuzot
Temma Gentles
The River, Islands
Abraham Dream Catcher, Hands of God
Mindy Rose Schwartz