The Reform Jewish Quarterly Spring 2025

CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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From the Editor

Articles

  • A Life of Meaning on the Cabaret Stage — Rabbi Deborah Zecher
  • How to Assure Successful Attendance at Every Temple Program, Service, and Event and How to Make Attendance Irrelevant — Rabbi David Katz
  • The Lonely Rabbi: Listening to Our Loneliness — Rabbi Carla Fenves, LMFT
  • Shiphrah and Puah: A Grammatical Solution — Rabbi Mark Sameth
  • Vaani Anah Olich Et Cherpati: A Study on the Intersectionality of Sexual Trauma and Traumatic Weight Gain Through a Jewish Lens — Rabbi Amanda K. Weiss
  • When Judah Met Tamar: Jewish and Christian Views Across the Ages — Rabbi David J. Zucker, PhD
  • Jewish Brides’ Breads Revisited — Rabbi Deborah Prinz
  • Looking Back on Fifty Years as a Rabbi — Rabbi Ron Kronish
  • Liberal Judaism and Jewish Liberalism — Rabbi Jan Katzew
  • We Are Yisrael, We Are the Blessing That Won’t Be Consumed: How I Got Through This Year as a Jewish Academic and a Campus Rabbi — Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein, PhD
  • A Midrash on Vayigash — Rabbi Jason Rosner
  • The Moral Restraint of the IDF: Ethical Combat in the Context of Jewish and Democratic Values — Rabbi Rand Burke
  • Attachment Theory — Rabbi Yair Robinson

Book Reviews

  • Purity and Identity in Ancient Israel: From the Temple to the Mishnah by Yair Furstenberg — Reviewed by Rabbi Matthew A. Kraus, PhD
  • The Islamic Moses: How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change the World by Mustafa Akyol — Reviewed by Rabbi Reuven Firestone, PhD
  • Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century by Miriam Eve Mora— Reviewed by Rabbi Matt Derrenbacher

Poetry

  • The Walls of Jerusalem — Jay Yair Brodbar, PhD
  • Tablets (Take One) — Patty Seyburn
  • Tablets (Take Two) — Patty Seyburn
  • And the Satraps — Patty Seyburn
  • My Messiah Complex — Patty Seyburn
  • Sukkot Questions — David Ebenbach
  • The Miracle — David Ebenbach
  • Shema — David Ebenbach
  • Chosen — David Ebenbach
  • Wedding in Jerusalem — Daniel Meltz
  • Olive in Poland — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
  • Morning Before — Rabbi Benjamin Shalva
  • Burning Bush — Rabbi Benjamin Shalva

MAAYANOT (Primary Sources)

  • MYB deNatura: A Short Text from Micha Yosef Berdyczewski (1865–1921) — Rabbi William Cutter, PhD

Responsum 5785.1

  • Removing a Pacemaker from a Corpse for Reuse — CCAR Responsa Committee, Rabbi Joan Friedman, PhD, chair

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