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Rabbi Agler and Rabbi Sonsino should be commended for assembling a cadre of insightful writers who help us confront what makes believing in God challenging for many contemporary Jews and offer ways to overcome those obstacles. Their experiences, questions, struggles, and discoveries invite readers to reflect on what we each believe and know about God in our own lives. --Andrea Weiss, provost, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion In A God We Can Believe In, Agler and Sonsino have brought together a variety of spiritually challenging viewpoints that question traditional Jewish theology. The essays reflect our search for a meaningful faith in our complex world and call for our institutions to have the courage to discuss what God is and can be for twenty-first-century Jews. --Richard F. Address, founder and director, Jewish Sacred Aging The contributors to Sonsino's and Agler's valuable collection of essays demonstrate that it is not necessary to abandon the principles of science and reason to experience the divine, the sacred, and meaning in life. ----Paul Menitoff, executive vice president emeritus, the Central Conference of American Rabbis A superb contribution, which opens up overdue conversations about Jewish belief. This is a wonderful book on many levels. --Joshua Stanton, senior fellow, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) Rabbis Agler and Sonsino have produced an outstanding collection of readable essays offering readers new and relevant insights on the idea of God. This book's unifying theme maintains that every human being longs for a life of meaning, and that innate need can only be sated by the search for 'a God we can believe in.' Filled with lively discourse, learned insights, and inspiring creativity, this volume is a genuine page-turner that will interest young and old alike. --Gary P. Zola, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

"""Rabbi Agler and Rabbi Sonsino should be commended for assembling a cadre of insightful writers who help us confront what makes believing in God challenging for many contemporary Jews and offer ways to overcome those obstacles. Their experiences, questions, struggles, and discoveries invite readers to reflect on what we each believe and know about God in our own lives."" --Andrea Weiss, provost, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ""In A God We Can Believe In, Agler and Sonsino have brought together a variety of spiritually challenging viewpoints that question traditional Jewish theology. The essays reflect our search for a meaningful faith in our complex world and call for our institutions to have the courage to discuss what God is and can be for twenty-first-century Jews."" --Richard F. Address, founder and director, Jewish Sacred Aging ""The contributors to Sonsino's and Agler's valuable collection of essays demonstrate that it is not necessary to abandon the principles of science and reason to experience the divine, the sacred, and meaning in life."" ----Paul Menitoff, executive vice president emeritus, the Central Conference of American Rabbis ""A superb contribution, which opens up overdue conversations about Jewish belief. This is a wonderful book on many levels."" --Joshua Stanton, senior fellow, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) ""Rabbis Agler and Sonsino have produced an outstanding collection of readable essays offering readers new and relevant insights on the idea of God. This book's unifying theme maintains that every human being longs for a life of meaning, and that innate need can only be sated by the search for 'a God we can believe in.' Filled with lively discourse, learned insights, and inspiring creativity, this volume is a genuine page-turner that will interest young and old alike."" --Gary P. Zola, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion"

Rabbi Agler and Rabbi Sonsino should be commended for assembling a cadre of insightful writers who help us confront what makes believing in God challenging for many contemporary Jews and offer ways to overcome those obstacles. Their experiences, questions, struggles, and discoveries invite readers to reflect on what we each believe and know about God in our own lives. --Andrea Weiss, provost, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion In A God We Can Believe In, Agler and Sonsino have brought together a variety of spiritually challenging viewpoints that question traditional Jewish theology. The essays reflect our search for a meaningful faith in our complex world and call for our institutions to have the courage to discuss what God is and can be for twenty-first-century Jews. --Richard F. Address, founder and director, Jewish Sacred Aging The contributors to Sonsino's and Agler's valuable collection of essays demonstrate that it is not necessary to abandon the principles of science and reason to experience the divine, the sacred, and meaning in life. ----Paul Menitoff, executive vice president emeritus, the Central Conference of American Rabbis A superb contribution, which opens up overdue conversations about Jewish belief. This is a wonderful book on many levels. --Joshua Stanton, senior fellow, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) Rabbis Agler and Sonsino have produced an outstanding collection of readable essays offering readers new and relevant insights on the idea of God. This book's unifying theme maintains that every human being longs for a life of meaning, and that innate need can only be sated by the search for 'a God we can believe in.' Filled with lively discourse, learned insights, and inspiring creativity, this volume is a genuine page-turner that will interest young and old alike. --Gary P. Zola, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

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"Rabbi Richard Agler is a Rabbi and the author of The Tragedy Test: Making Sense of Life-Changing Loss (2018). He tours and teaches on its themes and subjects and, as codirector of the Tali Fund, Inc., supports the Talia Agler Girls Shelter for trafficked, abused, and exploited girls in Nairobi, Kenya. Married to Mindy, they are the parents of Jesse (Tovah), Talia z""l, and Sarah (Dave). They have two grandchildren. Rabbi Rifat Sonsino, a Reform Rabbi and an academic, was born in Turkey. He received his law degree from the University of Istanbul, his ordination at the Hebrew Union College and his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written a number of books on Bible and theology, and keeps a blog, rsonsino.blogspot.com, which has more than 690,000 viewers around the world. Married to Ines, they have two children and four grandchildren."

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