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Employing a historian’s sensibility, Joshua Holo, Ph.D. frames contemporary Reform theological responses to this current moment. Unprecedented as it is, this time is also profoundly precedented. Such awareness has been a source of comfort and creativity for millennia.
While the pandemic has impacted all, some sectors of society have been disproportionately exposed to its ravages. Jan D. Katzew, Rabbi, Ph.D., considers what our current moment reveals about attitudes to the old, and what Jewish tradition can offer in this crucial conversation.
Rabbi Rachel Adler, Ph.D., is a theologian, striving to view profound questions of meaning through prisms of tradition. In this essay she turns to two psalms from the Hebrew Bible not included in liturgies of encouragement and comfort. She argues that Judaism in all its complexity offers articulations of deep anxiety, uncertainty and anger of which we may have need in these challenging times.
