All tagged death

Fitting COVID into our Jewish Story: Incorporating Life's Tragic Dimension Into Liberal Jewish Thought and Practice

Fitting COVID into our Jewish Story: Incorporating Life's Tragic Dimension Into Liberal Jewish Thought and Practice

Richard S. Sarason, Rabbi, Ph.D.
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In this careful and thought-provoking study of Jewish responses to biblical and rabbinic tragedies, Dr. Sarason traces a clear path for liberal Jews as they seek to acknowledge and confront the perilous and anxious experiences of the ongoing pandemic while showing the possibilities of Reform Judaism to offer comfort and tools for moving forward even in sorrow.

On Reading Childhood Death in the Biblical Text

On Reading Childhood Death in the Biblical Text

Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Ph.D.
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Jewish tradition offers a way of facing up to the scandal of human frailty and morality. COVID-19 has brought this reality into stark relief in recent months, and so the consciousness that there is no novelty in tragedy may provide a degree of comfort and perspective, even in trying times. Scholar of the Ancient Near East Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Ph.D. offers a way to reach across the centuries and find the most acute, the most contemporary human reality.