CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly
Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Spring/Summer 2024
From the Editor
Articles
- Unconsumed: The Burning Bush, Burnout, and a World on Fire — Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow, DPhil
- L’Dor Vador: The Formation of Reform Rabbis in IberoAmerica —Rabbi Sergio Bergman
- Seasons of Love, Grief, and Healing: Sacred Moments of Pastoral Care in the Jewish Preschool — Rabbi Lauren S. Cohn, RJE
- Bless All These Things: Reflections on Clinical Pastoral Education — Cantor Gabriel Snyder
- Pervasive Sorrow: Disenfranchised Grief, October 7th, and the Power of Jewish Ritual — Rabbi Lauren Ben-Shoshan, MARE, and Betsy Stone, PhD
- The Four Worlds of Abraham Joshua Heschel, z”l — Rabbi Morris M. Faierstein, PhD
- The Gender Wage Gap in the Reform Movement: The Third United Data Narrative — Bradley Katcher
- Rabbis and Revolutionaries: Dealing with the Destruction of the Second Temple — Anthony Sheppard
- Removing the Evil from Jewish Souls: A Pesach Prayer for Liberal Jews — Rabbi Mark H. Levin, DHL
- Deborah, a Woman’s Leadership: When Is It Desirable? — Rabbi Nancy Myers
- Reimagining Shehecheyanu: Spiritual Insights from the Hospital Bed — Rabbi Michael N. Stevens
- Type Scenes: Sister-Wives and More — Muriel Lederman
- Moral Injury: What Rabbis Need to Know —Rabbi Kim S. Geringer, MSW, and Rabbi Nancy H. Wiener, DMin
Book Reviews
- Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany by Wolf Gruner — Reviewed by Rabbi Margaret J. Meyer
- Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld — Reviewed by Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman
- When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species by Rafael Rachel Neis — Reviewed by Rabbi Chelsea Feuchs
- Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics by Hannan Hever — Reviewed by Rabbi Wendy Zierler, PhD
- From Time to Time: Journeys in the Jewish Calendar by Rabbi Dalia Marx — Reviewed by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein
- The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World by Rabbi Sharon Brous — Reviewed by Rabbi Andrew Kaplan Mandel
- Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole by Julia Watts Belser — Reviewed by Rabbi Ariel Tovlev
Poetry
- Life Blood — Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
- Spring Cleaning: “No” to Desire; “Yes” to Restraint — Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
- One — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
- Rosh Hashanah 5784 — Rabbi Norman Hirsh
- Schmultze’s — Stewart Florsheim
- Leitmotif — Stewart Florsheim
- Origins of the Heart — Stewart Florsheim
- From the Lost Notebook – 29 — Nan Cohen
- A Wall in Poland — Roger Nash
- Sticks — Roger Nash
- Best-By — Roger Nash
- Gnawing Bones Dry — Rabbi Pamela Wax
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