Was G-d at Ground Zero?

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Published on September 12, 2011

Opinion: 9/11, 10 years later

By Rob Eshman
Published on September 7, 2011

When I was in New York last week, I prowled Ground Zero.

Jewish interfaith leaders urge Shabbat sermon about Islam

Published on September 3, 2010

A group of Jewish interfaith educators is asking rabbis to talk about Islam next Shabbat.

VIDEO: Architecture as experience - Daniel Libeskind

Published on July 11, 2008

Celebrated architect Daniel Libeskind discusses his views of architecture as a spiritual and aesthetic experience, citing the examples of two sites he designed: the rebuilding of New York City's World Trade Center, and San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Tragedy’s Challenge

By Joe Berkofsky
Published on September 5, 2002

Typically an outspoken political activist, Rabbi Avi Weiss struggles for the right words when it comes to talking about Ground Zero.

Reflections on Ground Zero

By Jack Weiss
Published on November 15, 2001

I had not intended to go to New York. Instead, after having helped launch Los Angeles's Threat Preparedness Task Force, my focus for the past several weeks had been on practical measures that our city can implement to be better prepared in the event of a catastrophe. My brother, who now lives in Brooklyn, had suggested that I travel to New York and visit Ground Zero to develop a firsthand understanding of the urgency of my work. Although I believed that the media had made me well aware of the scope of the devastation in the financial district, I followed his advice and flew to JFK.

Are You There, God?

By Julie G Fax
Published on November 1, 2001

While the pain of the Sept. 11 attacks still churns like the smoke and dust that continue to rise out of Ground Zero, eight weeks has done something to begin our healing process.

Some of the rawness of our national wound is beginning to abate, allowing us to use the clarity and insight of the still-sharp lens of grief to encounter the big questions about God and humanity that the terrorists threw into our faces.

The questions, of course, are hardly new: How can we square the lethal expression of mass evil with our notion of a compassionate God? Were the attacks the hand of God, God's withdrawal from humanity, or simply the nature of God's universe?

Deja vu

By Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
Published on September 13, 2001

September 11, 2001.

This morning, America woke up to the same nightmare that my parents did on February 6, 1985. On that morning, my parents in Los Angeles heard the news that a suicide bomber had attacked an Israel Defense Forces convoy in Southern Lebanon. Reports of casualties varied from 50 injured to 100 killed. My parent's ultimate nightmare was that their son, who had enlisted in the IDF seven months earlier, was a part of the convoy that had been attacked.