A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
Issue No. 215-216 / Volume 54 / Numbers 3-4 / Summer-Fall 2005

Symposium: Conservative Judaism Today

Judaism and the Future of Religion in America: The Situation of Conservative Judaism Today   Jack Wertheimer
Conservative Judaism in the Twenty-first Century   Pamela Barmash
A Conservative Cri de Coeur   Debra Reed Blank
Creating Passionate Conservative Communities   Jacob Blumenthal
Joy and Jeopardy   Sharon Brous
Transdenominationalism and the Future of the Conservative Movement   Pamela Jay Gottfried
Conservative Judaism and the Twenty-first Century   Susan Grossman
Hadesh Yamenu  

Shai Held

Faithful and Sane   Jeremy Kalmanofsky
In the Footsteps of Rabbi Akiva   David G. Lerner
Tzeidah la-Derekh: Textual Content for our Jewish Journeys   Eliot Malomet
Gadol Kvod HaBriot: Placing Human Dignity at the Center of Conservative Judaism   Daniel S. Nevins
The Sacred Center   Carl M. Perkins
Conservative Judaism at the Crossroads: Choosing the Path of Outreach   Tracee L. Rosen
Conservative Halakhah   Miriam T. Spitzer
Courageous Innovation   Mychal B. Springer
The Search for a Usable Future   David Starr
Responding to the Temperaments of Twenty-First Century Jews   Howard Stecker


Escape from Venice
Roberto Bassi

A Strange Death: Zichron Ya’akov, Then and Now
Hillel Halkin

The Christian Reclamation of Judaism
David Fox Sandmel

REVIEWS

The Chosen Image: Television’s Portrayal of Jewish Themes and
Characters
, by Jonathan Pearl & Judith Pearl; Something Ain’t
Kosher Here: The Rise of the “Jewish” Sitcom,
by Vincent
Brook; The Jews of Prime Time, by David Zurawik
Elliot B. Gertel

Magic in the Biblical World: From the Rod of Aaron
to the Ring of Solomon
, by Todd Klutz
Alex Jassen

The Jewish Century, by Yuri Slezkine
Peter Kenez

And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern
Hebrew Women’s Writing
, by Wendy I. Zierler
Nehama Aschkenasy

POETRY

Scene with Starlings in Jerusalem,
translated by from Hebrew by Bernhard Frank
Manfred Winkler

INDEX


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