CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly. Volume LIX/ III, Summer, 2012. Symposium Issue on Judaism, Health, and Healing.

Octavo, glossy paper covers, vi, 264 pp. Articles are "Introduction to ths Issue from the Guest Edtors," Michele Prince and Nancy H. Weiner, "Spirituality and Religion in Health Care: A Rabbi's Personal Journey," Samuel E. Karff, "My Daughter or Son the Nurse: Jews in Nursing and the Healing Role of Nurses," Ellen Olshansky, "The Kalsman Institute and Angels: Jewish Insights on Transforming the Relationship between Patient and Health Professional," Carol Levy and Richard N. Levy, "Standing in the Doorway: Pastoral Perspectives on In-Home Chaplaincy," Jo Hirschmann, "Beyond Membership to True Belonging: Jewish Responses to an Unchanging Need for Deep Attachment and Meaning in an Ever-Changing World," Edythe Held Mencher, "The Torah of Despair," Elliot Kulka, "The Stigma of Infertitlity," Eleanor Steinman, "Ruth, Naomi, and Levinas's Other: Asymmetrical Pastoral Care," Ruth Gais, "On Illness," Douglas Kahn, "'P'tach Libi B'Toratecha (Open My Heart to Your Torah): Jewish Pastoral Theology in Process," Barbara E. Breitman, Mychal B. Springer, and Nancy H. Wiener, "Rabbis' Support of Older Couples' Second Marriages," Harriet Rosen and Marlene Levenson, "A New Ritual for Healing and Well-Being," Geri Newburge, "The Intermediate Blessings of the Amidah as a Model for a Personal Twelve-Step Program," Jeffrey Ableser, "A Very Personal Reflection: Debbie Freidman's Setting of Mi Shebeirach as a Sonata," Evan Kent, "Standing in Life before God: Report and Reflction on One Congregation's First Steps for Creating a Congregation-Based Program on Health and Wellness," Richard F. Address, "Sacred Communities: The Potential for Synagoguees to be Communities of Caring and Meaning in the Older Population," Marion Lev-Cohen, "Experienceing Judiasm through Thematic Temple Programming," richard Steinberg, "The Rabbi Does Handstands: An Exploration of the Emerging Field of Jewish Yoga n North American Synagogues and Beyond," Marcus J. Freed, "Verbatim with God," Robert Tabak, "The Origins of the Reform Concept of Prayer: An Eighteenth Century Essay by Isaac Euchel," Michael A. Meyer, poetry by Daniel S. Alexander, Paulette Rochelle-Levy, Abby Caplin and Linda Hepner, "Words of Wisodom from Four Parts," Dawn Gross, Paulette Rochelle-Levy, Allen S. Maller and Patti Tana.…