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Because My Soul Longs for You seeks to answer one of the most enduring human questions: Where can we find God in our lives? While Jewish theologians have long pondered the "God question" from ethical and philosophical perspectives, the last century has made space for a more experiential theology: God is present in our lived experiences. Radical amazement, to use Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's phrase, can be found in everyday life. Contributors to this volume share how they welcome God's presence into their lives, as well as the theological language they use to think and speak about this presence. Chapters explore how we experience God through prayer, text study, poetry, food, music, service, movement, meditation, interpersonal connection, and much more.

 

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.

This edition of CCAR Journal considers various topics, including loneliness and the rabbinate, Judah and Tamar's encounter, and Jewish brides' breads. The issue also contains new book reviews, poetry and a CCAR responsum on removing a pacemaker from a corpse for reuse.
 

This issue, which celebrates the centenary of the founding of the World Union for Progressive Judaism in 1926, examines the impact of the WUPJ on the growth of Progressive Judaism around the globe. The articles explore the early history of the WUPJ and the creation of rabbinic seminaries, youth movements, and liturgies, as well as key regions of the movement: the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa, South America, Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand, and Israel. The issue also contains new book reviews and poetry. 

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.

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.

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.