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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 […]

A man walking on cracked land scorched by heat waves in Mumbai, India, May 15, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Satish Bate-Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Jewish environmental thought is not ready for the climate crisis. But our tradition is.

David Zvi Kalman by David Zvi Kalman and JTA June 8, 2022
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
Rabbi Samantha Kahn officiates an interfaith wedding in the Bay Area. (Photo/Courtesy of 18Doors)
Posted inOpinion

Who is included in the ‘us’ of our prayers? 

Edmund Case by Edmund Case August 26, 2021August 27, 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
Rachel Adler speaking at the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, Feb. 21, 2019 (Photo/Laura Turbow)
Posted inBay Area

Feminist icon Rachel Adler on #MeToo and Jewish law

by Dan Pine February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Flames surround a house in Malibu, where the Woolsey Fire led to the evacuation of thousands of homes, Nov. 2018. (Photo/JTA-David McNew-Getty Images)
Posted inLocal Voice

The uncertain theology of tragedy and disaster

Rabbi Anne Brener by Rabbi Anne Brener December 10, 2018
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inColumns

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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