The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2025

CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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Winter 2025: Opening the Doors to LGBTQIA+ Clergy: Past, Present, and Future

From the Editor

  • At the Gates
    Guest Editors: Rabbi Ellen Lippmann and Rabbi Ariel Tovlev, MAJE

Articles

  • The CCAR Ad Hoc Committee on Homosexuality and the Rabbinate, 1985–1990 — Rabbi Yoel H. Kahn, PhD
  • Allies, Activists, and Opponents in the Pre-History of the Ad Hoc Committee on Homosexuality and the Rabbinate — Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig
  • Hineinu: A Little-Known Chapter in the Fight for LGBTQIA+ Ordination — Rabbi David Edleson
  • One Rabbi’s Journey to Serve the Congregation of Israel — Rabbi Eric Weiss
  • The Emergence of Transgender Spirituality — Rabbi Aria Caligiuri
  • Intersections of Identity: Exploring LGBTQIA+ Conversions to Judaism — Rabbi Lynne D. Goldsmith and Mara J. Waller, PhD
  • Emergent Engagement in Euphoria: The Nonbinary Hebrew Project as a Fractal Roadmap Toward Liberation — Lior Gross
  • Thrice Blessed — Cantor Evan Kent
  • From Out of the Aron Kodesh/Holy Closet: A Lifetime of Lessons — Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
  • Opening the Tent Doors and Practicing Audacious Hospitality — Rabbi Andrew F. Klein
  • The Job Search from Hell — Rabbi Robin Nafshi
  • My Almost Silenced Prayer — Rabbi Dr. Nachshon Siritsky
  • Trans Shechinah — Joy Ladin, PhD
  • Weaving the Pink, Blue, and White Mishkan: A Trans Rabbinical Student’s Reflection on Drag Bans and Student Pulpits — Benjamin Luks-Morgan
  • But the Sea Is Always Open: Exploring Trans-Affirming Mikveh When the Mikvehs Are Closed — Rabbi Max Zev Reynolds
  • Turn It and Turn It — Eliana Rubin
  • Nonbinary Liturgy — Cantor Ze’evi Tovlev
  • The Trans Halakha Project — Laynie Soloman and Rabbi Becky Silverstein
  • Black Queer Jewish Joy — Rabbi Kelly Whitehead
  • Thirty-Eight Years at HUC-JIR/NY: Four Before the Decision, Thirty-Four Since — Rabbi Nancy H. Wiener, Dmin, BCC
  • Panel Discussion

Book Reviews

  • And the Sages Did Not Know: Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex by Rabbi Sarra Lev, PhD — Reviewed by Rabbi Ariel Tovlev
  • Loaves of Torah: Exploring the Jewish Year Through Challah by Rabbi Vanessa Harper— Reviewed by Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal
  • Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspective on Legal Loopholes and Integrity by Elana Stein Hain — Reviewed by Rabbi Karen R. Thomashow

Poetry

  • Victim, Pioneer, Soldier — Rabbi Karen Bender
  • We Keep Praying — Rabbi Mónica Gomery
  • The Babe’s Legacy — Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
  • Mazal Tov! — Roger Nash
  • How Could God? — Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD

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