Whether or not Jews have faith – and the reality is that many of us are on the fence – there’s no question that the pandemic, protests, and politics of 2020 have made people think anew about the divine. About…
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Life I asked Jewish thinkers 18 questions about God. Readers asked more.
Paul Plotkin, a retired Conservative rabbi, said he feels his “certainty of a God is constantly under attack from somewhere deep inside of me,” as though his faith “is like an outside entity that my immune system is at war with.” A reader named Shirley said she had “never been able to entertain the idea…
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Life Is God in the unknowable?
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with clergy tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read the introduction to the series. We are about to recite the High Holiday Unetanetokef liturgy — what many people think of as…
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Life Does God believe we can be better?
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with clergy tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read the introduction to the series. If we take Yom Kippur seriously — brave internal reckoning, real repentance, and a commitment to do…
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Life What if we don’t believe that God exists (but really wish we did)?
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with clergy tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read the introduction to the series, and here to browse the collection. When I embarked in March on a project asking rabbis and…
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Life Is God felt more easily through music?
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with clergy tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read the introduction to the series. Obviously music can move people. But can it make us feel God is in the room? I’d…
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Life The loneliness of Jewish theology
For several months, I’ve been interviewing clergy and other Jewish thinkers about God for a series in the Forward called Still Small Voice. Last week, one of those scholars, Dr. Yehudah Kurtzer, turned the tables and interviewed me for his podcast “Identity/Crisis.” Kurtzer, president of Shalom Hartman North America, was one of the 18 scholars…
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Life Can we be pious and ambivalent?
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with clergy and scholars tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read the introduction to the series. Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is a self-described, “kippah-wearing, Shabbat-keeping father of three who teaches Torah for…
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Life Is God everywhere?
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with clergy and scholars tackling 18 questions about God, published during the month of Elul, a time of Jewish reflection and accountability. Click here to read the introduction to the series. Tell me about the God you don’t believe in. That’s the first thing Rabbi Amy…
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