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CCAR Journal - Spring/Summer 2024
Edited by Rabbi Edwin C. Goldberg
This double issue of CCAR Journal includes a new data analysis by the Reform Pay Equity Initiative, a discussion of the growth of Reform Judaism in IberoAmerica, a piece on disenfranchised grief in the wake of October 7, and several articles addressing the challenges of pastoral care. The issue also contains new book reviews and poems.
- At the Gates
- Unconsumed: The Burning Bush, Burnout, and a World on Fire — Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow, DPhil
- L’Dor Vador: The Formation of Reform Rabbis in IberoAmerica —Rabbi Sergio Bergman
- Seasons of Love, Grief, and Healing: Sacred Moments of Pastoral Care in the Jewish Preschool — Rabbi Lauren S. Cohn, RJE
- Bless All These Things: Reflections on Clinical Pastoral Education — Cantor Gabriel Snyder
- Pervasive Sorrow: Disenfranchised Grief, October 7th, and the Power of Jewish Ritual — Rabbi Lauren Ben-Shoshan, MARE, and Betsy Stone, PhD
- The Four Worlds of Abraham Joshua Heschel, z”l — Rabbi Morris M. Faierstein, PhD
- The Gender Wage Gap in the Reform Movement: The Third United Data Narrative — Bradley Katcher
- Rabbis and Revolutionaries: Dealing with the Destruction of the Second Temple — Anthony Sheppard
- Removing the Evil from Jewish Souls: A Pesach Prayer for Liberal Jews — Rabbi Mark H. Levin, DHL
- Deborah, a Woman’s Leadership: When Is It Desirable? — Rabbi Nancy Myers
- Reimagining Shehecheyanu: Spiritual Insights from the Hospital Bed — Rabbi Michael N. Stevens
- Type Scenes: Sister-Wives and More — Muriel Lederman
- Moral Injury: What Rabbis Need to Know —Rabbi Kim S. Geringer, MSW, and Rabbi Nancy H. Wiener, DMin
- Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany by Wolf Gruner — Reviewed by Rabbi Margaret J. Meyer
- Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld — Reviewed by Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman
- When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species by Rafael Rachel Neis — Reviewed by Rabbi Chelsea Feuchs
- Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics by Hannan Hever — Reviewed by Rabbi Wendy Zierler, PhD
- From Time to Time: Journeys in the Jewish Calendar by Rabbi Dalia Marx — Reviewed by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein
- The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World by Rabbi Sharon Brous — Reviewed by Rabbi Andrew Kaplan Mandel
- Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole by Julia Watts Belser — Reviewed by Rabbi Ariel Tovlev
- Life Blood — Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
- Spring Cleaning: “No” to Desire; “Yes” to Restraint — Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
- One — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
- Rosh Hashanah 5784 — Rabbi Norman Hirsh
- Schmultze’s — Stewart Florsheim
- Leitmotif — Stewart Florsheim
- Origins of the Heart — Stewart Florsheim
- From the Lost Notebook – 29 — Nan Cohen
- A Wall in Poland — Roger Nash
- Sticks — Roger Nash
- Best-By — Roger Nash
- Gnawing Bones Dry — Rabbi Pamela Wax
Rabbi Edwin Goldberg currently serves as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Shalom of The Woodlands, in the Houston area. He received rabbinic ordination and a doctorate in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (in 1989 and 1994, respectively). He has authored several books, including: Midrash for Beginners, Heads and Tales: Stories of the Sages to Enlighten Our Minds, Swords and Plowshares: Jewish Views of War and Peace, Love Tales from the Talmud, Saying No and Letting Go: Jewish Wisdom on Making Room for What Matters Most. He served as the Coordinating Editor of the new Reform Jewish machzor, Mishkan HaNefesh. He also edited a companion commentary, Divrei Mishkan HaNefesh and has published many articles and sermons. Rabbi Goldberg has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami in the department of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies. He is also a graduate of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality.
