American Reform Judaism: An Introduction

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285 Index Abrams, Judith Z., 89, 90 Academy for Jewish Religion, 75 acculturation. see assimilation/acculturation Achvat Yisrael congregation, 123–124 “Adelph Isn’t Tough: An Introduction to Hebrew for Adults,” 72 Ad Hoc Committee on Homosexuality and the Rabbinate, 218–219, 224 Adler, Felix, 15, 47 Adler, Henry, 12 Adler, Samuel, 15 Adler, Rachel, 190, 198–200, 206 adoption, 169–170 adult education, 149–154 African American Jews, 168 AIDS Interfaith Network, 110 Akselrad, Sanford, 243 Alouf, Joe, 129–130 American Jews, difference from Israeli Jews, 118–119 American Jewish Archives, 73 American Reform Zionists of America, 115 American Zionist Emergency Council, 20 Amos: The National Jewish Partnership for Social Justice, 108 Angel, Camille, 216–217 Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, 147, 167 anti-Semitism, 6, 9, 17–18, 19, 34, 137 Arafat, Yasser, 127 Aramaic language, 81 Ariel, Yaakov, 17 Aron, Isa, 140 Aron, Melanie W., 195 Artson, Bradley, 212 Asher, Judith Sherman, 56 Asian Jews, 168–170 (should be plural) assimilation/acculturation, 2, 121, 126, 127, 138 Association of Reform Zionists of America, 119 atarah (prayer shawl), 249 avodah (personal/communal religious practice), 99 Axelrod, Albert, 177 Azari, Meir, 124–125 Barak, Ehud, 127 bar/bat mitzvah, 66–67, 84–86 Barr, Robert, 54, 55 Barth, Lewis, 153 BCC. see Beth Chayim Chadashim Begin, Menachem, 128 Bellah, Robert, 58 Bender, Karen, 228 Bennett, Allen B., 215–216 Bergadine, Martha, 216 Berger, Philmore, 221 Bergman, Elihu, 155–156 Berkovitz, Robin, 213 Bershtel, Sara, 134–135 Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC), 213–214, 231 Beth Hillel-Beth El, 96 Bettmann, Bernhard, 17 286 Index Beyond God the Father (Daly), 198 Bible, 30, 40, 210 Beit Daniel, 124 Binstock, Louis, 50–51 Birmingham Temple, 54 Birthright Israel, 137, 204, 205 Bloch, Julia, 184–185 Block, Richard, 151 Blue, Lionel, 215 B’nai Jeshurun, 72 Bogot, Howard, 90 Bond, Julian, 108 Bookman, Terry, 110 Borowitz, Eugene B., 43, 52, 62 Boy Scouts of America, 230–231 Breslau Conference of Reform Rabbis, 189 Brickner, Barnett, 192 Briggs Initiative, 215 Brockman, Herb, 248 Brodsky, Michael, 123 Bronfman, Charles, 205 Bronstein, Herbert, 86 Buchwald, Ephraim Z., 156–157 Buddhism, 59 burial, officiation at, 128 Bush, George W., 129 Bush, Joanna, 175–176 Bush, John, 175–176 Bycel, Lee, 147, 201 Calisch, Edward, 17 candle lighting, Shabbat, 42 Cantor, Aviva, 208 cantors, female, 195 capital punishment, 109 Carroll, Lewis, 254 Carter, Jimmy, 108 Catiglione, Rabbi David, 247 CCAR. see Central Conference of American Rabbis Celebrations: A Parent’s Guide to Celebrating Holidays . . ., 161 census Jews, 256 Center for Jewish Life, 100 Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR): capital punishment opposition by, 109; and Columbus Platform, 19, 50–51; current membership of, 13; on diversity of Reform movement, 50–51; on divorce, 188; education commission of, 132; and ethics, 200, 203, 204; on female ordination, 192; founding of, 12; on gay/lesbian marriage, 4, 206–207, 223, 224–227, 236; and homosexual rights, 217–222; need for consensus building within, 234–237; on Palestinian -Israeli violence, 127; on patrilineal descent, 171–172, 236; prayer book of, 83, 86, 235; rabbi manual of, 85; on rabbi shortage, 73; Sabbath manual of, 42. see also Pittsburgh Platform (1999) central Europe: history of Reform movement in, 6–7, 8–9; impetus of Reform movement in, 81–82 central European Jew: background of, 263n2; and conversion to Christianity , 9, 43; from Germany; immigration to US, 10, 13–14; perceptions of German, 17, 19; reform by, 8, 81–82 ceremony, difference from ritual, 77 A Certain People (Silberman), 156 Chabad, 59 Chalin, Fran Magid, 214 Charleston Reform attempt, 9–10 chavurah, 99, 100 Cheng, Davi, 214 Chernow, Arlene, 161–162, 163, 164 Chesir, Daniel, 217 Chicago Sinai Congregation, 47, 88 Children’s Liturgy Project, 89–90 Christianity: conversion to, 43; influence on Reform Judaism, 14, 48, 80, 84 circumcision, 9 Citrin, Paul J., 90 “Civil Marriage for Gay and Lesbian Jewish Couples” resolution, 223 Classical Reform Judaism: bar mitzvah ceremony in, 84; elimination of female ritual role in, 187; influences on, 16–17; on 1999 Pittsburgh Plat- Index 287 form, 26, 245, 250; principles of, 14–16, 30, 40–41, 48–49, 183; relevance of, 80; ritual items removed by, 25; theology of, 3, 16–17 Cleveland Conference (1855), 45 Clinton, Bill, 80–81 Cohen, David, 60–61, 118 Cohen, Kenneth, 150 Cohen, Steven M., 166 Cohon, Samuel, 51 Columbus Platform (1937), 19, 49–51 Commission on Jewish...