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God

A visualization of a black hole. (Illustration/Wikimedia user Yukterez)
Posted inOpinion

There’s a big God-shaped hole in Jewish education

Max Antman by Max Antman August 29, 2023

“When I think about God, I picture Morgan Freeman.” I bit my tongue to repress a laugh as I looked into the eyes of the third-grader who had answered my […]

Moses at the Burning Bush by James Tissot
Posted inColumns

Friending God: how we keep each other close

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg September 2, 2022September 1, 2022
An image released by NASA on July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region in the Carina Nebula, captured in infrared light by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (Photo/JTA-NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI-Handout via Xinhua)
Posted inOpinion

The James Webb Telescope looks at the universe through the eyes of God

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick and JTA July 19, 2022
A 1907 postcard depicts the Israelites gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Posted inTorah

Shifting focus from everyday anxieties opens us to encounters with God

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg January 21, 2022January 20, 2022
Joan Gelfand's daughter and son-in-law on their wedding day in Berlin.
Posted inOpinion

How God showed up to our daughter’s interfaith wedding in Berlin

Joan Gelfand by Joan Gelfand December 16, 2021December 16, 2021
From "The Divine Comedy" by Gustave Dore.
Posted inOpinion

Why our preferred pronoun for God should be ‘they’

by Mark Silk and RNS September 29, 2021September 29, 2021
"Moses Speaks to Pharaoh" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inColumns

Playing God’s name game can show us a brighter future 

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen January 15, 2021January 15, 2021
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

Our God is unfathomable. So where does that leave us?

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 28, 2020February 27, 2020
A bus ad in Toronto, 2009 (Photo/Flickr-Atheist Bus Canada CC BY 2.0)
Posted inColumns

My boyfriend is an atheist and I’m a believer

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler August 20, 2018August 27, 2018
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
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Your 12-year-old doesn’t believe in God? No big deal

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler September 8, 2017September 7, 2017

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