G-D


Zoo Torah and Conversations with My Kids about G-d and Science

Hi all,
I’ve been spending lots of time home with my family since the arrival of our new daughter, Nadia (I’ll tell you her Hebrew name after the naming ceremony!), and recently I had a pretty deep discussion with my older two daughters about creation, the Bible, dinosaurs, and how all of that can get really [...]

Why I didn’t go to the AIPAC conference

Cross-posted on True Ancestor
The short answer: because I’m lazy, because the One True Wife and I had a fight and I didn’t want to travel with her, and because I’m busy.
The longer answer, packed inside the shorter one: I don’t like being part of Jewish efforts at political influence. It’s not a bad thing — [...]

Video: Does God Exist - A debate between Rabbi David Wolpe and Sam Harris

I’m really not a fan of the “new atheists” which is something I’ve written about on my own blog in the past. It’s not that I have anything against atheism because I don’t. Rather it’s that I don’t agree with the approach the new atheists seem to be taking. I for one don’t believe that [...]

Commemoration

Years ago, when I belonged to a Reform synagogue in the U.S., I went to the rabbi’s weekly Torah study for adults on Sunday mornings. On one such morning, while waiting for the rabbi, the students began a conversation that eventually steered around to the Shoah (Holocaust). Never an easy phenomenon to contemplate [...]

You Shall be Holy — To the Best of Your Ability

It was two years ago, nearly to the day, that I became Chaviva bat Avraham v’Sarah. I say became, but it’s true that I didn’t really become anything other than the person I was meant to be and had always been, the person hidden and seeking, finally come home to Torah and her people Israel. [...]

J-Quote: Mordecai Kaplan on "The Implications of Believing in G-D"

J-Quote: Mordecai Kaplan on "The Implications of Believing in G-D"

Note: This is a repost of something I originally wrote back in May of 2007 for my personal blog. I am planning on shutting it down in the not too distant future and have decided that before I do, I’m going to repost the relevant stuff here to JBC.org.
Hope no one minds.
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A couple of [...]