This issue of the CCAR Journal explores the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and the rabbinate. Through a range of reflective articles, contributors examine how AI is shaping Jewish life, leadership, and ethical discourse. The issue also contains general articles, new book reviews, and poetry.

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.

AI and the RabbinateFrom the Editors
• At the Gates
  Guest Editors: Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman and Rabbanit Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld
Articles
• As Iron Sharpens Iron: AI and Jewish Medical Ethics — Rabbi Oren J. Hayon and Ronni Hayon, MD
• What Makes a Human — Rabbi Marc Katz
• How AI Supports Global Progressive Judaism — Rabbi Stacey Blank
• Rabbis in the Age of AI: Media Ecology and the Reimagining of Rabbinic Authority — Rabbi Noah Chertkoff
• When AI Meets Sinai: The Creative Soul of Torah — Rabbi Feivel Strauss
• Man’s Search for Meaning Returns 404 Error — Rabbi Michael Walden
• The Morality of Generative Artificial Intelligence — Rabbi Cantor Jessica Fox
General Articles
• The Bible in Politics and Politics in the Bible — Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, PhD
• Leading My First Worship Service, High Holy Days 1960, at Age Seventeen — Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael
Book Reviews
• Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler by Michael A. Meyer — Reviewed by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie
• Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO’s Effort to Know the Enemy by Jonathan Marc Gribetz — Review by Rabbi Lea Mühlstein
• A Jew in the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History, edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Janathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovitch — Reviewed by Rabbi Beth Schwartz
• We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine by Jordan B. Peterson — Reviewed by Rabbi Austin Zoot
Poetry
• Remembering Rabbi Stanley Chyet — Rabbi Marc Steven Dworkin
• Shofar — Roger Nash, PhD
• The Small Things — Roger Nash, PhD
• The Sheitel Macher — Doris G. Traub
• Vessels — Rabbi Adam Fisher
• Angels? — Rabbi Adam Fisher
• Hebrew Letters — Rabbi Adam Fisher
• Noah’s Wife Speaks — Rabbi Mark Elber
• Tender Torah — Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman
• A Day’s Work — Karl Plank
• Two Crows — Karl Plank
Responsum 5784.2
• Artificial Intelligence and Authorship — CCAR Responsa Committee, Rabbi Joan Friedman, PhD, chair