Elissa Strauss and Scott Perlo
By Elissa Strauss and Scott Perlo
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Opinion Grappling With God’s Wrathful Side
Godology is a monthly conversation between *Forward columnist Elissa Strauss and Rabbi Scott Perlo in which they explore what it means to be “Godish” — to kind of, sort of, believe in God. SCOTT: Elissa, I think that most people take it as an article of faith that the angry “Old Testament God,” as some…
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Opinion Why Should Women Pray to a Male God?
Godology is a monthly conversation between Forward columnist Elissa Strauss and Rabbi Scott Perlo in which they explore what it means to be “Godish” — to kind of, sort of, believe in God. ELISSA: There is some inherent dissonance to being a God-believing woman. I am a God-believing woman. Even if one doesn’t believe that…
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Opinion Why Do We Feel Dread On Yom Kippur?
I Godology is a monthly conversation between writer Elissa Strauss and Rabbi Scott Perlo in which they explore what it means to be “God-ish” — to kind of, sort of, believe in God. SCOTT: It always strikes me as a strange paradox that the theology of the holidays is expressed through the image of God…
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Opinion Godology: In the Beginning
I recently wrote a column in which I examined my belief in God — or Godishness, as I called it. I spoke about how I have no rational or scientific reason to believe in God, how I have tried my darndest to talk myself out of it, but no matter how far I travel down…
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