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CCAR Journal - Summer 2025
The Reform Jewish Quarterly
Edited by Rabbi Edwin C. Goldberg
128 Pages6.00 × 9.00 in
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This edition of CCAR Journal includes articles on women rabbis in South Africa, resurrection of the dead, chesed in Mussar, the Jewish history of bourbon, and much more. The issue also contains a book review, poetry, and a CCAR responsum on splitting cremated ashes for burial in two places.
- From Distress to Sweetening: Adam Phillips, the “Missed” Life, and the Kabbalistic-Chasidic Sweetening of Din — Admiel Kosman, PhD
- An Updated History of Women Rabbis in and from South Africa — Rabbi Emma Gottlieb
- Countenance and Core — Rabbi Scott B. Saulson, PhD
- Why Does God Choose Abraham? Why Does Abraham Choose God? — Brian Weinstein, PhD
- Resurrection of the Dead — Rabbi Sandra Cohen
- Rabbi Henry Cohen and the Galveston Hurricane of 1900: Moving Beyond Jewish Communal Relief — Rabbi Bailey Romano
- The Universality of Chesed in Mussar — Rabbi David Oler, PhD, DHL
- American Jewish History Through a Bourbon Glass: The Legacy of I. W. Bernheim — Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz
- The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s by Anat Geva — Reviewed by Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel
- It Could Never Happen — Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
- All Immigrants — Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
- Not to Mt. Moriah — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
- Sanctuary — Jane Schapiro
- People of the Book — In memory of Rabbi Stanley Davids (1939–2025) — Mara Gale Fein, PhD
- TikkunOlam: Knitting a World — Roger Nash, PhD
- Eruv — Roger Nash, PhD
- Jacob’s Pillow: Resting Weary Heads on the Pillow/Pillar — Rabbi Stephen S. Pearce, PhD
- The Doctor Wants to Remodel My Heart — Stewart Florsheim
- The Window — Stewart Florsheim
- Dementia Prologue: Adding It Up — Rabbi Debra Hachen
- Dementia I: A Closer Look — Rabbi Debra Hachen
- Dementia II: Wrestling with My Beloved’s Dementia — Rabbi Debra Hachen
- Dementia III: The Descent — Rabbi Debra Hachen
- Nocturne of Creation: Lilith Reincarnated — Jaclyn Piudik and Janet R. Kirchheimer
- Elijah at the Door or Every Day Another Door — Rabbi William Cutter, PhD
- I can only hear it — Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
- Prayers and Liturgical Poetry — Rabbi Sivan Navon-Shoval
- Splitting Cremated Ashes for Burial in Two Places — CCAR Responsa Committee, Rabbi Joan Friedman, PhD, chair
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.
