CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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Spring 2026: The World Union for Progressive Judaism at One Hundred

From the Editors

• At the Gates
  Guest Editors: Rabbi Daniel H. Freelander and Rabbi Professor Deborah Kahn-Harris

Articles

• Mattuck, Montagu, and Montefiore: Their Role in the Foundation of the World Union for Progressive Judaism — Pam Fox, PhD
• The Training of Rabbis for Progressive Judaism Outside of North America — Rabbi Dr. Michael J. Shire
• Netzer at Fifty: Closing the Gap Between Promise and Power — Yonatan Glaser
• How We Do Liturgy: One Hundred Years of Prayerful Partnerships — Cantor Sarah Grabiner
• The Development and Evolution of Reform and Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom — Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Romain
• Mai D’hava Hava: Progressive Judaism’s European Renewal After the Shoah — Rabbi Lea Mühlstein
• A Short History of Progressive Judaism in South Africa — Rabbi Greg Alexander
• Progressive Judaism in South America: A WUPJ Historical Chapter on Argentina and Brazil — Rabbi Sergio Bergman
• A History of Progressive Judaism in Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand — Rabbi Dr. Esther Jilovsky
• Not by Might, Nor by Power: The Journey of Reform Judaism in Israel—From the Margins to the Heart of Israeli Society — Anna Kislanski

Book Reviews

• Israelite Religion: From Tribal Beginnings to Scribal Legacy by Karel van der Toorn — Reviewed by Kristine Henriksen Garroway, PhD
• Mussar in Recovery: A Jewish Spiritual Path to Serenity and Joy by Hannah L. with Rabbi Harvey Winokur — Review by Rabbi Daniel K. Alter

Poetry

• Sighting — Molly Kirschner
• Erev — Molly Kirschner
• I Am Black and I Am Beautiful — Amanda Bradley
• Missing Marker — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• A Farmer’s Mezuzah — Roger Nash, PhD
• At 95 I Look Ahead — Rabbi Norman Hirsh
• News From Home — Tova Gannana
• Little Gloria — Jessica Greenbaum
• Dream after My Daughter Went Home — Jessica Greenbaum

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CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

Order the issue

From the Editor

• At the Gates

Articles

• The Golem as Theology: The Mutable Myth Confronting the Problem of Evil — Rabbi Stanley M. Davids, z”l, with Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, PhD, and Joshua Glucksman
• Studying American Scripture and Healing Civic Health — Rabbi Michael G. Holzman and Rabbi Jessie Wainer
• Hebrew Union College’s New Rabbinical School Curriculum: Integrative Rabbinical Education for A New Generation — Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, PhD, and Rabbi Dvora E. Weisberg, PhD
• Kitab al-Dhimma: A Jewish Counter-History — Rabbi Reuven Firestone, PhD

Book Reviews

• Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: The Untold Story by Jordan Chad — Reviewed by Rabbi Stacy Petersohn
• Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church by Kevin Sack — Review by Rabbi Stephanie M. Alexander
• The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate: German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933–2010 by Cornelia Wilhelm — Reviewed by Rabbi Ari S. Lorge
• The Sacred Struggle: Jewish Responses to Trauma, edited by Rabbi Lindsey Danziger and Rabbi Benjamin David — Reviewed by Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler
• To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People by Noah Feldman – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman

Poetry

• Like Isaac — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• Avatiach — Roger Nash, PhD
• A Niggun — Roger Nash, PhD
• Stolperstein — Roger Nash, PhD
• Parochet — Roger Nash, PhD
• Neshamah — Eva Alter
• Noah’s Ark — Rabbi Marc J. Belgrad

Responsum 5784.3

• Burial of a Person in a Pet Cemetery — CCAR Responsa Committee, Rabbi Joan Friedman, PhD, chair

Maayanot (Primary Sources)

• The Preface to Jacob Sasportas’s Tol’dot Yaakov — Introduction and Translation by Rabbi Laurence L. Edwards, PhD

Subscriptions and Ordering 

Back issues are available at $35 per issue plus shipping. To order copies of the CCAR Journal, please visit ccarpress.org.

To subscribe, please email CCAR Press at info@ccarpress.org.