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Volume 57

Fall 2004

Articles

Toward a Halakhic Definition of Poverty
Jill Jacobs
Hesed: Feminist Ethics in Jewish Tradition
Susan Schept
Abraham Trusted That God Would Stop Him
Howard L. Apothaker
The Barukh Shem Kevod Blessing: An Analysis
Jerry Brem
Are We Asking the Wrong Questions About the Shoah?
John Johnson
Rabbi, Bar Kappara, and Homosexuality
Gil Nativ
Six Poems by Zelda
Translated by Marcia Falk


Winter 2005

Articles

Dead or Alive: Halakhah and Brain Death
Daniel S. Nevins
Judah and His Brother: The Dream that Failed
Burton Caine
Halakhah and Ethical Pluralism
Richard Claman
Did God Command the Extermination of the Canaanites?
The Rabbis' Encounter with Genocide
Rivon Krygier
The Child at the Edge of the Cemetery:
Portraiture and Symbolism in Seder Tohorot
Martin S. Cohen
Letter from Aloft: Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Nuances of North American Aliyah
Amy Gottlieb
A Meditation
Jonathan Wittenberg


Spring 2005

Articles

Coming to Terms with Biblical Criticism
Ismar Schorsch
The Golden Calf Episode: When the Betrayed is the Betrayer and the Betrayer the Betrayed
Daniel Siegel
War and the Possibilities of Peace:
A Response to Michael Graetz's "War and Peace" in Etz Hayim
Benjamin Edidin Scolnic
Response by Michael Graetz
Joseph's Trauma: A Study in Clinical Biblical Psychology
Aiton Birnbaum
Lessons from the Ancient Priesthood
Ian J. Silverman
Letter from Brussels: One God, One Prayer
Rivon Krygier


Summer 2005

Articles

To Break or Mend a World: Thoughts on Theodicy after the Tsunami
Leonard Levin
From Middot to Mitzvot
Ira F. Stone
With responses by Bradley Shavit Artson, Harold Kushner and Jonathan Wittenberg
Accepting Ishei Israel With Love
Jeremy Kalmanofsky
Is There a Decline in the Conservative Movement?: The Limitations of Data
Bernard Lazerwitz
Letter from Jerusalem
Yehiel Greniman




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