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Special Issues

43:3 Spring 1991 - End-Stage Medical Care: A Halakhic Approach

Articles

A Jewish Approach to End-Stage Medical Care
Elliot N. Dorff
A Halakhic Ethic of Care for the Terminally Ill
Avram Israel Reisner
Mai Beinaihu?
Avram Israel Reisner
On Halakhic Approaches to Medical Care for the Terminally Ill: A Response
Amy Eilberg
On Halakhic Approaches to Medical Care for the Terminally Ill: A Response
Joel Roth


50:2/3 Winter/Spring 1998 - Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Tribute

Articles

From Der Shem Hameforash: Mensch
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Translated and introduced by Morton Leifman
Readiness Before God: Abraham Heschel in Europe
Edward K. Kaplan
Hasidic Sources in Heschel's Conception of Prayer
Alfredo Fabio Borodowski
Heschel's Torah min ha-shamayim: Ancient Theology and Contemporary Autobiography
Gordon Tucker
Heschel's Homage to the Rabbis: Torah min ha-shamayim as Historical Theology
Leonard Levin
The Torah, Revelation, and Scientific Critique in the Teachings of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Alexander Even–Chen
Epistemological Tensions in Heschel's Thought
Neil Gillman
Meaningfulness, the Ineffable, and the Commandments
James Hyman
Rabbi Heschel Through Christian Eyes
Gary Michael Banks
Abraham Joshua Heschel and Thomas Merton: Heretics of Modernity
Shaul Magid
Theological Affinities in the Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Susannah Heschel
"My Legs Were Praying": Theology and Politics in Abraham Joshua Heschel
Arthur Waskow
"Where Does God Dwell in America Today?"
William Sloane Coffin
Memories and Meanings of Being Heschel's Disciple
Byron L. Sherwin
Heschel's Hasidism: A Recollection
Samuel H. Dresner
Abraham Joshua Heschel Remembered: Reminiscences by Heschel's former students
Introduced by Peter A. Geffen and Or-Nistar Rose
Abraham Joshua Heschel and Wolfe Kelman
Photograph by John H. Popper
Pikuach Neshama: To Save a Soul
Abraham Joshua Heschel


51:2 Winter 1999 - Theology

Articles

Preface
David L. Lieber
Introduction
Elliot N. Dorff
Gordon Tucker
When Ideology Becomes Theology: Creating a Theological Language of and for
Conservative Jews
Ellen M. Umansky
Response by Barry Cytron
Seeking God in the Bible
Martin Samuel Cohen
Response by Howard A. Addison
Knowing God Through Prayer
Elliot N. Dorff
Response by Baruch Frydman-Kohl
On Knowing God
Neil Gillman
Response by Barry Cytron
Metaphors for God
Michael Gaetz
Response by William E. Kaufman
Metaphysical Realism: Theoretical and Practical Considerations
Gordon Tucker
Response by Baruch Frydman-Kohl
The Palpable Absence of God
Ira F. Stone
Response by Mychal B. Springer
The Commanding Nearness of God
Jonathan Wittenberg
Tesponse by Harlan Wechsler
Epilogue
Elliot N. Dorff
Gordon Tucker


51:4 Summer 1999 - Health Care: Right or Privelege?

Articles

Preface
David L. Lieber
Introduction
Elliot N. Dorff
Gordon Tucker
To Love the Stranger
Ismar Schorsch
Am I My Brother's Keeper?: A Jewish View on the Distribution of Health Care
Elliot N. Dorff
Health Care and Mrs. Job: The conflict of Personal Categories
Gerald I. Wolpe
Moral and Religious Values in Health Care Reform: A Roman Catholic Perspective
Charles J. Fahey
Who Should Have Access to What Mental Health Services?: The Journey from Oz to Ephesus
David B. McCurdy
Health Care Reform and Finitude
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Spencer Foreman
Health Care: Right or Privelege?
Philip R. Lee
The Changing Health Care Safety Net
James R. Tallon, Jr.
The Distribution of Health Care Benefits by American Governments: Rationales and Outcomes
Stanley Joel Reiser
Health Reform in America: The Mystery of the Missing Moral Momentum
Lawrence D. Brown


53:4 Summer 2001 - The Jewish Child

Articles

What Does Bar/Bat Mitzvah Really Signify?
David Kraemer
When Your Children Ask: A Jewish Theology of Childhood
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Rivalry in Genesis: A New Reading
Diane M. Sharon
Ishmael at Sixteen
Martin Samuel Cohen
Heroes, Scholars, and School Teachers: The Education of Jewish Babylonian Children
Shira Leibowitz
Judaic Enrichment as a Change Agent in Early Childhood Education
Lisa D. Grant and Frieda D. Robins
Children as Pariahs?: A Teshuvah on Mamzerut
Elie Spitz


54:1 Fall 2001 - The Boundaries of Commitment

Articles

From the Editor
Martin S. Cohen
Will the Center Hold? Conservative Judaism Re-examined
Michael A. Meyer
Responses by Pamela Barmash, Shamai Kanter, and Herbert Rosenblum
Walking Softly on/with the Law: Apologetic Thinking and the Orthodox/Conservative Debate
Shaul Magid
Permeable Boundaries: Zionism, the Diaspora, and the Conservative Movement
Aryeh Cohen
A Philosophic Basis for Halakhic Pluralism
Richard L. Claman
Conflicting Approaches to Conversion in the United States in the Twentieth Century
David Golinkin
The Logic of Numbers vs. The Logic of Souls: The Synagogue-Center and Jewish Communal Continuity
Ezra Kopelowitz
Letter from England
Jonathan Wittenberg


54:3 Spring 2002 - The Completion of the Human Genome

Articles

Some Genetics for Some Jews: A Jewish Look at the Human Genome
Robert Pollack
Response by Elliot N. Dorff
Bioethics, the Genome, and the Jewish Body
Paul Root Wolpe
The Name in the Nucleus
Aryeh Lev Stollman
Cross-Generational Retribution and Genetic Engineering: Reflections on Chance and Free Will
Lawrence Troster
The Human Genome and Ethical Issues
Michael Graetz
"As We Have Heard So We Have Seen": The Iconography of Zion
Gary A. Anderson
The Haftarot of Etz Hayim: Exploring the Historical Interplay of Customs, Humashim and Halakhah
David E. S. Stein
Voices from the Balcony
Robert S. Scherr
Popular Fiction and the Limits of Modern Midrash
Simone Lotven Sofian
Response by Naomi Graetz

58:2/3 Winter/Spring 2006 - The Aggadah of the Conservative Movement

Articles

Introduction
Martin S. Cohen
An Aggadah for the Conservative Movement
Ira F. Stone
"Passionate Openness": A New Aggadah for the Conservative Movement
Shoshana Boyd Gelfand and Jonathan Boyd
A New Aggadah for the Conservative Movement
Neil Gillman
Halakhah and Aggadah are Both Binding
Judith Hauptman
Reclaiming Talmudic Judaism: An Aggadic Approach to Halakhah
Jill Jacobs
Aggadah and Plausibility
Jeremy Kalmanofsky
An Aggadah of Integrity: Points of Orientation for the Conservative Movement
Judd Kruger Levingston
Aggadah as Storytelling
Karen G. Reiss Medwed
"Freedom Under the Law": An Understanding of Conservative Judaism
Joseph H. Prouser
Egalitarianism and the Aggadah of the Movement
Francine Green Roston
The Aggadah of Spiritual Integrity
Martin S. Cohen
Responding to a Broken World: Two Letters
Scotland - Jonathan Wittenberg
New Orleans - Jonathan Slater





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