The Reform Jewish Quarterly Summer 2026

CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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From the Editor

Articles

  • Prayer: Putting Tears in a Bottle — Rabbi Anne Brener, LCSW
  • Beauty Is a Jewish Value — Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman
  • The Origin of the Western Association of Reform Rabbis (WARR) — Rabbi Alan Henkin
  • Insomnia, Spirituality, and the Night Work of the Rabbi: A Review of the Literature with Implications for Rabbinic Pastoral Care — Bruce D. Forman, PhD
  • A. B. Yehoshua: Whimsy and the Old-New Language — Rabbi William Cutter, PhD
  • Rumi, Love, and Mysticism: Poetry as Code for Human Consciousness — Piers David Nash, PhD

Book Reviews

  • Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century edited by Marla Brettschneider — Reviewed by Rabbi Sivan Rotholz
  • Antisemitism: An American Tradition by Pamela S. Nadell — Review by Dana Herman, PhD
  • Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz by Menachem Z. Rosensaft — Review by Rabbi Jade Sank Ross

Poetry

  • Moses’s Mother — Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
  • A Letter to God — Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
  • Hashkiveinu — Ada Waddell
  • dead letter drop — Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
  • At a Funeral (March 10th, 2026, from Penn Station to Port Washington) — Spencer Szwalbenest
  • A Jew Out on Christmas Eve (December 24th, 2023, Yardley, PA) — Spencer Szwalbenest
  • Ner Tamid (From Secaucus to Hamilton, April 5th, 2026) — Spencer Szwalbenest
  • How May We Know You? — Wayne Norman Cochran
  • Jerusalem of Golden Silence — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman

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