The Summer issue of CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly contains articles on prayer, beauty the Western Association of Reform Rabbis, a review of literature with implications for pastoral care, A.B. Yehoshua, and Rumi, along with 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.

At the Gates
   Rabbi Edwin Goldberg, DHL

Articles

Prayer: Putting Tears in a Bottle
   Rabbi Anne Brener, LCSW
Beauty Is a Jewish Value
   Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman
The Origin of the Western Association of Reform Rabbis (WARR)
   Rabbi Alan Henkin
Insomnia, Spirituality, and the Night Work of the Rabbi: A Review of the Literature with Implications for Rabbinic Pastoral Care
   Bruce D. Forman, PhD
A. B. Yehoshua: Whimsy and the Old-New Language
   Rabbi William Cutter, PhD
Rumi, Love, and Mysticism: Poetry as Code for Human Consciousness
   Piers David Nash, PhD

Book Reviews

Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century edited by Marla Brettschneider
   Reviewed by Rabbi Sivan Rotholz
Antisemitism: An American Tradition by Pamela S. Nadell
   Reviewed by Dana Herman, PhD
Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
   Reviewed by Rabbi Jade Sank Ross
 

Poetry

Moses’s Mother 
A Letter to God
   Rabbi Adam D. Fisher
Hashkiveinu
   Ada Waddell
dead letter drop
   Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
At a Funeral (March 10th, 2026, from Penn Station to Port Washington)
A Jew Out on Christmas Eve (December 24th, 2023, Yardley, PA)
Ner Tamid (From Secaucus to Hamilton, April 5th, 2026)
   Spencer Szwalbenest
How May We Know You?
   Wayne Norman Cochran
Jerusalem of Golden Silence
   Rabbi Dr. Israel Bobrov Zoberman