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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

God

A screen capture from a Fox 19 Now report on a Kentucky man's request for an 'IM GOD' vanity license plate. (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 14, 2019, 5:01 pm
US court okays Kentucky man’s ‘IM GOD’ license plate
Judge rules engraving is speech protected by First Amendment, says state violated atheist Ben Hart’s rights by denying his request
By AP
This June, 1954, file photo shows renowned physicist Albert Einstein in Princeton, N.J.(AP Photo, File)
December 5, 2018, 3:26 am
Einstein’s disbelieving ‘God letter’ auctioned for almost $3 million
The missive, in which the scientist spells out his thoughts on religion, the Bible and being a part of the Jewish people, sells for almost twice its estimate
By ToI Staff and AFP
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby holds a press conference at the Saint John Eye Hospital compound in the Christian quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on May 10, 2017. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)
November 22, 2018, 3:10 am
God’s gender? Not male, or female. Non-binary, says archbishop of Canterbury
”God is not definable,’ Justin Welby, who knows a thing or two about fathers, tells London audience
By ToI Staff
German-born American physicist Albert Einstein, 1946. (Central Press/Getty Images via JTA)
October 4, 2018, 3:08 am
Einstein’s ‘God letter’ to go on sale for $1 million
A year before his death, he wrote to friend and philosopher Eric Gutkind of his thoughts on religion, the Bible and being a part of the Jewish people
By AFP
In this September 11, 2017, photo, singer/songwriter Paul McCartney performs on stage at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. (Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)
September 2, 2018, 5:01 pm
Paul McCartney says he ‘saw God’ during psychedelic drug trip
Former Beatle was ‘humbled’ by vision while on Dimethyltryptamine, though it ‘didn’t turn my life around’
By AP and ToI Staff
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte walks past honor guards as he arrives at Manila international airport in Manila on May 24, 2017. (AFP/Noel Celis)
July 7, 2018, 7:33 pm
Duterte vows to resign if anybody can prove God exists in a selfie
Days after calling God ‘stupid,’ controversial Philippine president implores heavily Catholic nation to produce photographic evidence of the divine
By AP
Ari Segal
May 3, 2018, 12:07 pm
Ari Segal
Imagine the Orthodox world without vitriol
If we regard alternate approaches to Orthodoxy as the best approach for each community, we’ll judge favorably
Illustrative image of Jewish prayer books in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
April 26, 2018, 8:28 pm
Most US Jews believe in God, but don’t think He judges them
Only 33% believe in a biblical deity, compared to 80% of Christians, but just 10% of Jews say they do not believe at all
By JTA
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
March 9, 2018, 1:24 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Who still sees the wonder of Judaism?
Religion is the art of knowing what to do with amazement and how to protect it from complacency
David Werdiger
December 15, 2017, 11:50 am
David Werdiger
It’s OK God — we’ve got it covered
Hanukkah raises that important question of whether Judaism requires the Divine to thrive
Shayna Abramson
November 9, 2017, 2:02 pm
Shayna Abramson
God must think I’m up for the hard stuff
If I believe that God is above statistics, the 98% likelihood of no major surgical complications is small comfort
Rabbi Shai Held, a co-founder of Mechon Hadar, a traditional egalitarian yeshiva, has just released a book of Torah commentaries. (Courtesy of Mechon Hadar/via JTA)
September 1, 2017, 12:42 pm
How Rabbi Shai Held is shaping the conversation around love and politics
The scholar wants to overcome the stereotype that ‘secular Jews are political activists’ and ‘religious Jews do mitzvahs,’ saying he’s ‘never heard of a more false dichotomy’
By Ben Sales
Albert Einstein, 1946. (Central Press/Getty Images via JTA)
June 21, 2017, 1:22 am
Einstein letters on God, Israel, physics fetch $210,000
Eight missives, written between 1951 and 1954, by esteemed Jewish scientist were initially valued at up to $46,000
By Agencies
Stephen Fry pictured at a 2012 Pride Parade in London (Photograph at WorldPride / Wikipedia)
May 7, 2017, 3:59 pm
Comedian Stephen Fry probed for blasphemy after calling God a ‘selfish maniac’
British Jewish-born star was asked on Irish TV what he’d say to God if he, she or it existed. Viewed on YouTube 7 million times, his bitter answer led to a police investigation
By ToI Staff
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
April 11, 2017, 7:28 am
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Those 38 years when God went missing
If you find religious belief hard today, consider how rough divine absence must have been for the Exodus generation
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