Table of Contents

Sacred Table

• Front Matter 1 free
• • Title page 3
  • Copyright info 4
  • Dedication 7
  • Contents 9
  • Acknowledgements 15
  • Forward by Eric Yoffie 17
  • Preface by Nigel Savage 21
  • Introduction 25
  • Voices: Small Bites 31
• PART ONE • Perspective: History and Trends of Jewish Dietary Practices within Reform Judaism 45 buy
• • 1. Making Every Forkful Count: Reform Jews, Kashrut, and Mindful Eating, 1840–2010, CAROLE B. BALIN 49
  • 2. The Myth of the T’reifah Banquet: American Culinary Culture and the Radicalization of Food Policy in American Reform Judaism, LANCE J. SUSSMAN 61
  • 3. Kashrut: A Reform Point of View, SIMEON J. MASLIN, ED. 93
  • 4. Adventures in Eating: An Emerging Model for Kashrut, RACHEL S. MIKVA 97
  • 5. Kashrut: A New Freedom for Reform Jews, RICHARD N. LEVY 111
  • 6. On Kashrut, SETH M. LIMMER 121
  • 7. Kashrut and Autonomy, ALAN HENKIN 141
  • Is Dietary Practice Now in the Reform Mainstream? A Survey of 8. Attendees at the 2005 Houston Biennial, RICHARD N. LEVY AND MARC GERTZ 149
  • 9. Real Life / Real Food: A Holy Moment at McDonald’s, EUGENE B. BOROWITZ 161
• PART TWO • Buffet of Educated Choices: Jewish Ritual Law 163 buy
• • 10. An Overview of Ritual Kashrut, MARY L. ZAMORE 167
  • 11. Passover Kashrut: A Reform Approach, MARY L. ZAMORE 183
  • 12. Real Life / Real Food: Kashrut—A Family History, ELLEN WEINBERG DREYFUS 199
• PART THREE • Environmental Ethics: Bal Tashchit 203 buy
• • 13. Curb Your Consumerism: Developing a Bal Tashchit Food Ethic for Today, KEVIN M. KLEINMAN 207
  • 14. Connecting Locally: Jumping Off the Production Line, BATSHEVA APPEL 217
  • 15. On High-Tech Science and Our Food: Three Questions, MARK WASHOFSKY 227
  • 16. Fish: A Complex Issue, JOEL MOSBACHER 233
  • 17. Getting Back to the Garden, BARBARA LERMAN-GOLOMB 241
  • Real Life / Real Food: Let Your Table Be to You a Temple, JOSEPH AARON SKLOOT 251
• PART FOUR • Kindness to Animals: Tzaar Baalei Chayim 255 buy
• • 19. Kindness to Animals: Tzaar Baalei Chayim, RAYNA ELLEN GEVURTZ 259
  • 20. “I’ll Have What She’s Having”: Jewish Ethical Vegetarianism, MARK SAMETH 269
  • 21. Continuity and Change in Reform Views of Kashrut 1883–2002: From the T’reifah Banquet to Eco-Kashrut, AARON SAUL GROSS 279
  • 22. Meat Minimalism: Were We Meant to Be Ethical Omnivores? KAREN R. PEROLMAN 305
  • 23. Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Making of a Reform Shochet, JOSH WHINSTON AND GERSH LAZAROW 311
  • 24. Real Life / Real Food: A Letter to My Vegetarian Husband, ZOE KLEIN 317
• PART FIVE • Concern for Oppressed Food Workers: Oshek 321 buy
• • 25. Oshek: The Meeting Point of Ritual Piety and Moral Purity in a Contemporary Reform Kashrut, RICHARD LITVAK 325
  • 26. Our Dark Addictions: Chocolate, Coffee, and Tea, DEBORAH PRINZ 331
  • 27. A Look Back at the Reform Movement’s Response to the United Farm Workers Grape Boycott, PETER E. KASDAN 341
  • 28. Real Life / Real Food: Post-Postville and Onward, ROBERT J. MARX 349
• PART SIX • Hechsher: Who Decides What Is Kosher? 351 buy
• • 29. Considering Hechsher, MARY L. ZAMORE 355
  • 30. We Answer to an Even Higher Authority, ARIANA SILVERMAN 361
  • 31. But Is the Mashgichah Kosher? MARY L. ZAMORE 373
  • 32. Wine: Our Symbol of Joy, TERJE Z. LANDE AND OREN POSTREL 379
  • 33. Real Life / Real Food: Kiddush and Mad Dog 20-20— A Kosher Combination? DEBORAH BODIN COHEN 387
• PART SEVEN • Guarding Our Health: Sh’mirat HaGuf 391 buy
• • 34. Palates, Pilates, Politics: A Prophetic Vision for Eating, WILLIAM CUTTER 395
  • 35. Of Pharisees and Allergies: Shulchan Shalom, DOUG SAGAL 405
  • 36. Returning Food to Its Rightful Place: Eating Disorders in the Jewish Community, RUTH A. ZLOTNICK 411
  • 37. Real Life / Real Food: Redefining Healthy Eating, For Life, JULIE PELC ADLER 417
• PART EIGHT • Justice: Tzedek 419 buy
• • 38. Let All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat: Food Ethics, Tzedakah, and How We Celebrate, NEAL GOLD 423
  • 39. Pricing Ourselves Out of the Market: Is Eating Kosher (Ritually and Ethically) a Privilege of the Rich? IRWIN ZEPLOWITZ 431
  • 40. Raising Our Voices for Food Justice, MICHAEL NAMATH AND RACHEL COHEN 439
  • 41. Real Life / Real Food: Bread, Torah, and Tikkun, LINDA MOTZKIN AND JONATHAN RUBENSTEIN 447
• PART NINE • Spirituality 449 buy
• • 42. Food Preparation as a Holy Act: Hafrashat Challah, RUTH ABUSCH-MAGDER 453
  • 43. The Joy and Privilege of Blessings Before and After a Meal, BENNETT F. MILLER 461
  • 44. We Eat First: A Congregational Snapshot, ELLEN LIPPMANN AND TRISHA ARLIN 475
  • 45. What I Eat Is Who I Am: Kashrut and Identity, PETER KNOBEL 483
  • 46. Tzom: Fasting as a Religious/Spiritual Practice, SUE LEVI ELWELL 489
  • 47. Real Life / Real Food: An Introduction to Hunger, DONALD A. WEBER 501
• PART TEN • Making Your Choices: Shalom 503 buy
• • 48. Your Personal Kashrut: Sh’leimut and Sh’lom Bayit, MARY L. ZAMORE 507
  • 49. Creating a Reform Communal Dietary Policy, JEFFREY BROWN 517
  • 50. Real Life / Real Food: Kosher Christmas Dinner, MARY L. ZAMORE 527
• Closing Material 529 free
• • To Learn More 529
  • Responsa 539
  • Glossary 543
  • Contributors 549