Preface

Not Going Gently into the Night (or, How to Retire Gracefully and Painlessly)

Why Being a Rabbi Is No Job for a Nice Jewish Boy or Girl (or, Confronting the Rabbi Shortage)

What Do You Find Wonderful About Each Other? What Do You Find Obnoxious About Each Other? (or, The Fine Art of Premarital Counseling)

Your Visit Means the World to Me, Rabbi! (or, Pastoral Counseling: Its Hazards and Its Rewards)

They Don't Make Rebbitzens Like That Anymore! (or, The Vanishing Rabbi's Wife)

Rabbi, For a Long Time We've Been Growing Apart Translation: I'm Fooling Around with Somebody Else! (or, The Challenge of Divorce Counseling)

Great House Tonight, Rabbi! (or, The High Holy Day Trauma)

Rabbi, You're Driving Them Away from Judaism! (or, Who Is Really at Fault?)

We're Planning a Las Vegas Night for Our Kid's Bar Mitzvah (or, Making a Mockery of the Jewish Future)

Establishing Jewish Identity for Children of Mixed Marriages

Speaking Good or Ill About the Dead (or, Doing Justice to the Deceased)

Ecumenical Squirming and the Unbridgeable Divide in Interfaith Dialogue

What Makes the State of Israel Jewish (or, What Really Defines Us Over here?)

You're Kidding About Turning the Other Cheek, Aren't You? (or, Old Testament Morality vs. New Testament Morality: Which Is More Realistic?)

Better You Should Have Chosen Some Other People! (or, What Does It Really Mean to Be Chosen by God?)

How Can a Gentile Cope with Jewish History. (or, What Christians Have to Learn About Christian Anti-Semitism

How One Jew Can Instinctively Spot Another (or, Why Are Jews Recognizable to One Another?)

From ``God Is In His Holy Temple'' to ``Deidle Deidle Dee Dum Deidle Deidle Dee'' (or, What Separates Old-Time Reform Judaism from Modern Day Mainstream Reform?)