CCAR Journal - Winter 2026

Name: CCAR Journal - Winter 2026
Author: Rabbi Edwin C. Goldberg
ISBN: 9780881236866

The Reform Jewish Quarterly

Edited by Rabbi Edwin C. Goldberg

116 Pages6.00 × 9.00 in

Paperback

ISBN: 9780881236866
Published: 30th Jan 2026

$35.00

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The Winter 2026 issue of CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly contains articles on the golem, American civic health, Hebrew Union College's new rabbinical curriculum, and Jewish history in the Islamic world. A responsum on burial of a person in a pet cemetery and a translation of the preface to Jacob Sasportas’s Tol’dot Yaakov are also included, along with book reviews and poetry.

From the Editor
At the Gates
Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL

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
Reviewed 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
A Niggun
Stolperstein
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 LaurenceL. Edwards, PhD

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.