The Reform Jewish Quarterly Summer 2025

CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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From the Editor

Articles

  • From Distress to Sweetening: Adam Phillips, the “Missed” Life, and the Kabbalistic-Chasidic Sweetening of Din — Admiel Kosman, PhD
  • An Updated History of Women Rabbis in and from South Africa — Rabbi Emma Gottlieb
  • Countenance and Core — Rabbi Scott B. Saulson, PhD
  • Why Does God Choose Abraham? Why Does Abraham Choose God? — Brian Weinstein, PhD
  • Resurrection of the Dead — Rabbi Sandra Cohen
  • Rabbi Henry Cohen and the Galveston Hurricane of 1900: Moving Beyond Jewish Communal Relief — Rabbi Bailey Romano
  • The Universality of Chesed in Mussar — Rabbi David Oler, PhD, DHL
  • American Jewish History Through a Bourbon Glass: The Legacy of I. W. Bernheim — Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz

Book Reviews

  • The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s by Anat Geva — Reviewed by Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel

Poetry

  • It Could Never Happen — Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
  • All Immigrants — Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
  • Not to Mt. Moriah — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
  • Sanctuary — Jane Schapiro
  • People of the Book — In memory of Rabbi Stanley Davids (1939–2025) — Mara Gale Fein, PhD
  • Tikkun Olam: Knitting a World — Roger Nash, PhD
  • Eruv — Roger Nash, PhD
  • Jacob’s Pillow: Resting Weary Heads on the Pillow/Pillar — Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
  • The Doctor Wants to Remodel My Heart — Stewart Florsheim
  • The Window — Stewart Florsheim
  • Dementia Prologue: Adding It Up — Rabbi Debra Hachen
  • Dementia I: A Closer Look — Rabbi Debra Hachen
  • Dementia II: Wrestling with My Beloved’s Dementia — Rabbi Debra Hachen
  • Dementia III: The Descent — Rabbi Debra Hachen
  • Nocturne of Creation: Lilith Reincarnated — Jaclyn Piudik and Janet R. Kirchheimer
  • Elijah at the Door or Every Day Another Door — Rabbi William Cutter, PhD
  • I can only hear it — Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

MAAYANOT (Primary Sources)

  • Prayers and Liturgical Poetry — Rabbi Sivan Navon-Shoval

Responsum 5784.4

  • Splitting Cremated Ashes for Burial in Two Places — CCAR Responsa Committee, Rabbi Joan Friedman, PhD, chair

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