The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2024

CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

On Being Human: Jewish Theology and the Digital Life – Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, PhD
Response to Joseph Skloot: Deactivating the Golem – Rabbi Shirley Idelson, PhD
Divine Transcendence as an Answer to the Problem of Ethical Loneliness – Rabbi Kari Hofmaister Tuling, PhD
Response to Kari Tuling: Reimagining a Transcendent God — Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz, PhD
A Holistic Jewish Life – Rabbi Sari Laufer
Response to Sari Laufer: Facing the Demise of Reform Jewish Particularism – Rabbi Amy R. Perlin
Freeing Ourselves from Kant’s Dichotomy – Rabbi Leon A. Morris
Response to Leon Morris: Choosing to Accept What is Beyond Choice – Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow
Toward a Reform Jewish Theological Renewal in Dark Times – Dr. Alyssa M. Gray
Response to Alyssa Gray: Tragic Vision, Stubborn Hope – Rabbi David Stern
How We Should Teach Reform Jews to Read the Torah Since We All Know That the World Is Round: Seven Guidelines for Reform Jewish Leaders – Rabbi Jeremy S. Morrison, PhD
Response to Jeremy Morrison: Ruthlessly Relevant Torah – Rabbi Hilly Haber

My Religious Philosophy: A Religious Naturalist Approach – Rabbi Rifat Sonsino, PhD
A New Yahrzeit Ritual Practice: Yahrzeit Observance in the Home on the Deceased’s Birthday – Rabbi Mark S. Kram
60th Ordination Anniversary Sermon – Rabbi Alan D. Fuchs
The Akeidah as Dream Sequence – Rabbi Neil Amswych

Biblical Women Speak: Hearing Their Voices through New and Ancient Midrash by Rabbi Marla J. Feldman, reviewed by Rabbi Rachael Klein Miller
Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America by Laura Yares, reviewed by Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph, PhD
Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa by Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber, reviewed by Rabbi Samuel Kaye
Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture by Mira Balberg, reviewed by Rabbi Matthew Kraus
The King Is in the Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought edited by Julie E. Cooper and Samuel Hayim Brody, reviewed by Rabbi Joshua Herman
The Last Consolation Vanished by Zalman Gradowski, edited by Arnold I. Davidson and Philippe Mesnard, translated by Rubye Monet, and reviewed by Rabbi Rachel Maimin
Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel by Susan Ackerman, reviewed by Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein, PhD
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Elisheva Baumgarten, reviewed by Rabbi Susan L. Einbinder, PhD

Klaf – Jehanne Dubrow
Bouldering – Jehanne Dubrow
Saying Kaddish – Jehanne Dubrow
To Inherit and Bequeath – Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
Sh’mana – Rabbi Albert Micah Lewis
Obituary for a Dog (Seder K’lavim) – Immanuel Suttner
When We Left – Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
Elijah’s Cup: A Child’s Pesach – Roger Nash
Living by a Lunar Calendar – Roger Nash
A Story of Mizrach in My Town – Roger Nash
Hillel on the Roof – Philip Terman
On Reading the Akeidah as a Dream Sequence on Rosh HaShanah – Rabbi Daniel Polish
At the Tashlich Pond – Rabbi Dan Fink
Predicate Psalm – Michael Sandler
Unlike Jacob – Rabbi Israel Bobrov Zoberman, PhD

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