The Reform Jewish Quarterly Fall 2025

CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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Fall 2025: AI and the Rabbinate

From the Editors

  • At the Gates
    Guest Editors: Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman and Rabbanit Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld

Articles

  • As Iron Sharpens Iron: AI and Jewish Medical Ethics — Rabbi Oren J. Hayon and Ronni Hayon, MD
  • What Makes a Human — Rabbi Marc Katz
  • How AI Supports Global Progressive Judaism — Rabbi Stacey Blank
  • Rabbis in the Age of AI: Media Ecology and the Reimagining of Rabbinic Authority — Rabbi Noah Chertkoff
  • When AI Meets Sinai: The Creative Soul of Torah — Rabbi Feivel Strauss
  • Man’s Search for Meaning Returns 404 Error — Rabbi Michael Walden
  • The Morality of Generative Artificial Intelligence — Rabbi Cantor Jessica Fox

General Articles

  • The Bible in Politics and Politics in the Bible — Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, PhD
  • Leading My First Worship Service, High Holy Days 1960, at Age Seventeen — Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael

Book Reviews

  • Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler by Michael A. Meyer — Reviewed by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie
  • Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO’s Effort to Know the Enemy by Jonathan Marc Gribetz — Review by Rabbi Lea Mühlstein
  • A Jew in the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History, edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Janathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovitch — Reviewed by Rabbi Beth Schwartz
  • We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine by Jordan B. Peterson — Reviewed by Rabbi Austin Zoot

Poetry

  • Remembering Rabbi Stanley Chyet — Rabbi Marc Steven Dworkin
  • Shofar — Roger Nash, PhD
  • The Small Things — Roger Nash, PhD
  • The Sheitel Macher — Doris G. Traub
  • Vessels — Rabbi Adam Fisher
  • Angels? — Rabbi Adam Fisher
  • Hebrew Letters — Rabbi Adam Fisher
  • Noah’s Wife Speaks — Rabbi Mark Elber
  • Tender Torah — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
  • A Day’s Work — Karl Plank
  • Two Crows — Karl Plank

Responsum 5784.2

  • Artificial Intelligence and Authorship — CCAR Responsa Committee, Rabbi Joan Friedman, PhD, chair

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