The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2026

CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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From the Editor

Articles

  • The Golem as Theology: The Mutable Myth Confronting the Problem of Evil — Rabbi Stanley M. Davids, z”l, with Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, PhD, and Joshua Glucksman
  • Studying American Scripture and Healing Civic Health — Rabbi Michael G. Holzman and Rabbi Jessie Wainer
  • Hebrew Union College’s New Rabbinical School Curriculum: Integrative Rabbinical Education for A New Generation — Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, PhD, and Rabbi Dvora E. Weisberg, PhD
  • Kitab al-Dhimma: A Jewish Counter-History — Rabbi Reuven Firestone, PhD

Book Reviews

  • Christmas in Yiddish Tradition: The Untold Story by Jordan Chad — Reviewed by Rabbi Stacy Petersohn
  • Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church by Kevin Sack — Review by Rabbi Stephanie M. Alexander
  • The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate: German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933–2010 by Cornelia Wilhelm — Reviewed by Rabbi Ari S. Lorge
  • The Sacred Struggle: Jewish Responses to Trauma, edited by Rabbi Lindsey Danziger and Rabbi Benjamin David — Reviewed by Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler
  • To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People by Noah Feldman – Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman

Poetry

  • Like Isaac — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
  • Avatiach — Roger Nash, PhD
  • A Niggun — Roger Nash, PhD
  • Stolperstein — Roger Nash, PhD
  • Parochet — Roger Nash, PhD
  • Neshamah — Eva Alter
  • Noah’s Ark — Rabbi Marc J. Belgrad

Responsum 5784.3

  • Burial of a Person in a Pet Cemetery — CCAR Responsa Committee, Rabbi Joan Friedman, PhD, chair

Maayanot (Primary Sources)

  • The Preface to Jacob Sasportas’s Tol’dot Yaakov — Introduction and Translation by Rabbi Laurence L. Edwards, PhD

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