Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of God, the divine being said to have created the universe.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of God, the divine being said to have created the universe.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of God, the divine being said to have created the universe.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of God, the divine being said to have created the universe.
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with rabbis 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. It’s hard to watch God’s wrath and not feel alienated. God’s punishments in the Torah seem disproportionate….
Still Small Voice is a collection of 18 interviews with rabbis 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. I both believe it and resist it — the idea that…
One recent morning when my laptop suddenly died, I scurried to the comfort of our family computer to make a few online purchases. Some days earlier, a new credit card had mysteriously arrived in the mail for me, three years before the expiration date of my old one. This move by the card company, I…
A Jew dies and goes to heaven. Standing at the pearly gates, she sees…wait — is that Maya Rudolph? Or Steve Buscemi? Or can she not see anyone at all? An uncanny theological dialogue has quietly broken out in the splashiest of places — network television — where three different shows, all by Jewish creators,…
Ah, the Jews have done it again! Not content to pioneer monotheism, invent lasers, and sire Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we have written one of Cher’s favorite books in the mortal world. In an interview with People Magazine that should strongly be considered by the Jewish Publication Society for biblical canonization, living icon Cher said this:…
God has been having a busy couple of days. “God told me I was a feminist when he gave me three daughters,” Andrew Cuomo announced this week in a bid to retain his position as New York Governor over challenger Cynthia Nixon. Then, late Thursday night Ariana Grande released the song “God Is A Woman,”…
A “portrait” uncovered decades ago from a 3,000 year old archeological site in the Sinai Desert provides evidence that early Jewish worshippers didn’t share the monotheistic beliefs of their descendants, according to Nir Hasson, who wrote a fascinating piece on the subject for Haaretz. What’s more, according to one archaeologist interviewed by Hasson, the findings…
My dad always says that his most valuable possession is his relationships. Human-to-human connections make life worth living. Shared experiences with friends and family bring meaning into our lives, and even a chance encounter with a stranger can be incredibly fulfilling. This past weekend, my husband, Ira, a plastic surgery resident at NYU Langone Hospital,…
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