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	Why Harold Kushner Is Wrong
		Kushner came to the topic of suffering through a terrible tragedy in his family: He and his wife lost a young son to a particularly perverse degenerative disease -- premature aging syndrome.
		Kushner herself is on record as saying that she derived no comfort from her husband's theories.
		Kushner's view of the world is closer to Persian Manicheanism, in which the forces of Good and Evil are in constant struggle, than it is to traditional Judaism.
	www.aish.edu /spirituality/philosophy/Why_Harold_Kushner_Is_Wrong.asp (2642 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Harold S. Kushner
		Harold Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in the Boston suburb of Natick, Mass., after serving that congregation for twenty-four years.
		Rabbi Kushner was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Columbia University.
		Harold Kushner tells us that the path to a truly successful and significant life is through friendship, through family, and through acts of generosity and self-sacrifice.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/kushner (518 words)

	Bio, Kushner, Floyd H.
		Harold Kushner had been the sole survivor of the crash of his UH1D helicopter on a mountainside in Quang Nam Province on November 30, 1967.
		Kushner was a Army Medical Corps Flight Surgeon and had broken a tooth and sustained a wound to his shoulder when the helicopter crashed.
		Kushner became ambivilent about the war himself, and when held in North Vietnam, made propaganda tapes until informed by the more organized prisoners captured and held in the North that it was prohibited.
	www.pownetwork.org /bios/k/k051.htm (3767 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: Arts -- Q & A: Rabbi Harold Kushner
		Kushner: There were reports a few months ago about experiments in which two groups of hospital patients: one was prayed for, one wasn't.
		Kushner: One thing [is] that the Hurricane last year wasn't an act of God; it was an act of nature.
		Kushner: You bet there is. I have to deal with so many people who just absolutely refuse to forgive someone who slighted them, because they believe the only power they have over these people is to withhold forgiveness, the power to remain angry.
	www.time.com /time/arts/printout/0,8816,1545682,00.html (1522 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner
		Kushner writes, "There is a crucial difference between denying the tragedy, insisting that everything is for the best, and seeing the tragedy in the context of a whole life, keeping one's eye and mind on what has enriched you and not only on what you have lost" [p.
		Kushner says that he would give up all of the wisdom and sensitivity that he gained through his own suffering in order to be "the father of a bright, happy boy" [p.
		Kushner argues that suffering is not ennobling, yet his readers might argue that in his case it was.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/bad_things_good_people1.asp (809 words)

	Harold Kushner
		Harold Kushner is a Conservative rabbi, in the liberal wing of Conservative Judaism, a member of the Rabbinical Assembly, and a long time congregational rabbi of a Conservative synagogue in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.
		He is the author of the immensely popular book on liberal theology, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People", which was widely read not just in Jewish circles, but became a best seller due to its adoption by many liberal Protestant Christians as well.
		Kushner has written a number of other popular theological books, such as "How Good Do We Have to Be?", "To Life!" and many others.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Harold_Kushner.html (153 words)

	news.boisestate.edu NEWS RELEASE: March 16, 2004: Best-Selling Author Harold Kushner Presents Free Lecture April 20
		Kushner’s lecture, “Living a Life That Matters,” is based on his book by the same name and is sponsored by the Center for Multicultural and Educational Opportunities at Boise State.
		Kushner is rabbi laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass.
		Kushner holds six honorary degrees and has received numerous distinguished awards including the Christopher Medal, an internationally recognized media award that honors creative works that go beyond entertainment to inspire audiences and enhance our vision of the world.
	news.boisestate.edu /newsrelease/archive/2004/032004/0316kushner.html (315 words)

	When Bad Things Happen to Good People
		Kushner presents his theological framework in the form of a re-interpretation of the story of Job.
		Kushner attributes the orderliness of the universe to God, but holds that the ordering of the universe is not complete: Some things are just circumstantial, and there is no point in looking for a reason for them.
		Kushner re-interprets the story of Adam and Eve to make the point that the ability to choose between good and evil is what makes us human.
	www.gurus.com /dougdeb/Courses/bestsellers/Kushner/BTmain.htm (633 words)

	Applied Math at Brown University
		It was Kushner who, in the mid- 1960s, provided the first rigorous development of nonlinear filters for diffusion-type processes with white observation noise.
		Kushner's Markov chain approximation method is the current approach of choice for such problems.
		Kushner established powerful methods for the analysis of convergence and rate of convergence under very weak conditions on the noise and dynamics.
	www.dam.brown.edu /people/facultypage.hjk.html (842 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Lord Is My Shepherd: Books: Harold S. Kushner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kushner, a rabbi by profession, showed in that book that he could transcend the barriers that differences in religion can create, and reach a broad audience with general spiritual appeal.
		Kushner brings all of his experience as a rabbi to bear in the development of the text, integrating theological, historical and philosophical information with personal reflection and ministerial experience.
		Harold Kushner explains each line of the psalm by placing them back into their original historical context.
	www.amazon.ca /Lord-My-Shepherd-Harold-Kushner/dp/1400033357 (2160 words)

	Bio of Harold Kushner for WFU's Year of Religion
		Harold S. Kushner is rabbi laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass., a congregation he served for 24 years.
		Kushner is best known as the author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," an international bestseller published in 1981, translated into 12 languages and named one of the 10 most influential books in recent history by Book of the Month Club members.
		Rabbi Kushner graduated from Columbia University, was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1960 and received his doctoral degree from the seminary in 1972.
	www.wfu.edu /wfunews/1997/060997k.htm (192 words)

	Overcoming Life's Disappointments by Harold Kushner - explorefaith
		Kushner takes this and molds it into a book filled with hope and encouragement for all of us along life's journey.
		Central to Kushner's thesis is his contemplation of Moses' "humility," that aspect of his life that enabled him to remain open to God's leading and to correction from others.
		Kushner understands that people are looking for practical answers to life's most difficult questions, not for platitudes and sermonizing.
	www.explorefaith.org /books/disappointments.html (733 words)

	review of Harold Kushner's When Children Ask About God
		Harold Kushner is a liberal Jewish rabbi who originally wrote this book in 1971.
		I don't think Kushner would want this to be the result however, as he says that it is better to be a fundamentalist who takes myths literally than to be someone who rejects stories for their mythological components.
		Kushner falls in the common theist trap of giving God the credit for everything good that happens and claiming that God had nothing to do with bad things.
	www.2think.org /hii/wcaag.shtml (585 words)

	Rabbi Harold Kushner at The Masters Forum
		Kushner said that our society trains men to be skilled at competition and inept at relationships, and trains women to be the opposite.
		Kushner told of a man in his late 30s who came for counseling when Kushner was still a congregant rabbi.
		Kushner quoted an engaged couple who wanted to alter their vows from "till death do us part" to "as long as love lasts." Both had seen the pain of loveless marriages, and did not want to chance that emptiness.
	www.mfinley.com /experts/kushner/kushner.htm (5364 words)

	UUA News & Events: General Assembly 2003: 5026 Faith in America with Rabbi Harold Kushner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kushner said one reason for the popularity of orthodox and fundamentalist religion is that “some people are uncomfortable with ambivalence.
		Kushner asserted that “it is also the duty of religion to teach that certain behaviors are wrong.
		Fortunately, Kushner concluded, “more young people today want to be teachers than lawyers, they don’t expect to live in houses as big as their dad’s.
	www.uua.org:443 /ga/ga03/5026.html (913 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Lord Is My Shepherd by Harold S. Kushner
		Rabbi Harold Kushner believes that the Twenty-third Psalm--perhaps the most memorable and cherished chapter of the Bible--offers spiritual riches that can change a person's life.
		Kushner notes that his understanding of God is "first and foremost an issue of morality, that there is only one God and that He demands righteous behavior." But his congregants' understanding of God was different from his: "their souls craved a God who would make them feel safe" [p.
		Kushner suggests that in choosing to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve chose the gift of moral conscience over that of eternal life.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/lord_is_my_shepherd1.asp (1239 words)

	Harold Kushner - Through the Valley of the Shadow
		Harold Kushner - Through the Valley of the Shadow
		Written following the death of his young son, this book's honest attempt to understand the tragedies that face us, captured the hearts of millions of readers.
		Harold Kushner has written several other books, including
	www.csec.org /csec/sermon/kushner_3610.htm (3409 words)

	Author Spotlight: Rabbi Harold Kushner
		Kushner faced the heartbreak of his infant son's diagnosis with the degenerative disease, progeria, which would stunt his growth, age him prematurely, and take his life as an early teenager.
		As a young congregational rabbi, Kushner struggled with the problems of retaining your faith through difficult times and the struggle of returning to "normal" life after a loss.
		Kushner explores the joys of keeping Kosher, the essential benefits of observing Shabbat, and the beautiful traditions of the Jewish holy days.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/_judaism_retired/16461 (398 words)

	BookPage Interview September 2001: Rabbi Harold Kushner
		Rabbi Harold Kushner brings clarity and intelligence to that age-old question in his new book, Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between Conscience and Success.
		Like the best-selling When Bad Things Happen to Good People, which gave a personal glimpse of the Jewish rabbi as he faced the fatal illness of his own child, Kushner again draws on scripture, modern literature, psychology and his own 30 years as a congregational rabbi for answers.
		And that when my son was desperately ill and in pain, I could make him laugh.
	www.bookpage.com /0109bp/rabbi_kushner.html (569 words)

	Harold Kushner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rabbi Harold S. Kushner was born on April 3, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York.
		In 1960, Kushner was ordained a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
		In 1966 Kushner accepted a rabbinical position for Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts; he would remain at Temple Israel for twenty-four years.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Kushner.html (154 words)

	When Bad Things Happen To Good People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rabbi Kushner offers ways in which we can find the resources to cope with the tragedy that strikes us in our own lives, and know how to help others when tragedy strikes them.
		Rabbi Laureate Harold Kushner was the spiritual leader at Temple Israel for over 25 years.
		Harold Kushner, a Jewish rabbi facing his own child's fatal illness, deftly guides us through the inadequacies of the traditional answers to the problem of evil, then provides a uniquely practical and compassionate answer that has appealed to millions of readers across all religious creeds.
	griefceu.com /presenters/kushner (238 words)

	Amazon.ca: Who Needs God: Books: Harold Kushner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the end, Rabbi Kushner goes so far as to define religion as community rather than theology--a point of contention.
		Kushner doesn't seem to believe in the traditional concept of an afterlife either.
		Kushner's words are comforting as he tries to make sense of everyday tragedies that hit people in a somewhat random fashion.
	www.amazon.ca /Who-Needs-God-Harold-Kushner/dp/0743234774 (857 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Harold S. Kushner
		Bio: Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, where he lives.
		From Harold S. Kushner, the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a book that shows us how to be our best selves even when things don't turn out as we had hoped--that is, how we can overcome life's disappointments.
		Kushner turns to the experience of Moses to find the requisite lessons of strength and faith.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/HaroldSKushnereBooks.htm (362 words)

	Harold Kushner’s Messiah : ChristianCourier.com
		When Harold Kushner wrote a book for children with religious questions, he de-personalized the “Messiah” of the Old Testament.
		Harold Kushner is one of the most prominent Jewish voices in America today.
		In fact, Kushner even goes so far as to deny that God is a person.
	www.christiancourier.com /articles/read/harold_kushners_messiah (664 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Overcoming Life's Disappointments - Harold S. Kushner - Product Details :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From Harold S. Kushner, the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a book that shows us how to be our best selves even when things don’t turn out as we had hoped—that is, how we can overcome life’s disappointments.
		As with most of Harold Kushner's books, reading them is like having a weekly appointment with the good rabbi in his office.
		Kushner uses the life of Moses as a prism through which to filter challenges and setbacks that afflict us all in the course of our lives.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-1400040574-locale-us.html (665 words)

	Rabbi Harold Kushner
		A community collaboration brings Rabbi Kushner to Oklahoma City as we prepare for the remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building.
		Kushner's discussion will center on our craving for significance and the need to know that our lives and our choices mean something.
		Rabbi Kushner's presentation is the first event in the National Week of Hope.
	starport.okcu.edu /ad/aa/events/speakers/Kushner.htm (234 words)

	Harold S. Kushner on LearnOutLoud.com - Your Audio and Video Learning Resource.
		Rabbi Kushner ("When Bad Things Happen to Good People") offers a new audiobook about how to overcome the common difficulties of life by turning usefully to the life of Moses.
		As a young theology student, Harold Kushner puzzled over the Book of Job.
		In today's high-pressure world the odds are that you may feel overwhelmed, dissatisfied or unable to cope with unforeseen problems in your life.
	www.learnoutloud.com /Results/Narrator/Harold-S.-Kushner/2482 (188 words)

	Address by Rabbi Harold Kushner Kicks off Wake Forest University's Year of Religion
		Kushner told more than 1,000 Wake Forest students, faculty and visitors in Brendle Recital Hall that only acknowledging God's sovereignty can overcome the "idolization of human achievement" and the loneliness, despair and fear of inadequacy produced by self-centered living.
		Kushner's address is the first event in Wake Forest's yearlong focus on religion.
		In a press conference after the speech, he applauded the university for acknowledging religion is just as important as physics, economics or any other discipline and for devoting an entire academic year to explore and discuss religion's shaping influence on America.
	www.wfu.edu /wfunews/1997/090497k.htm (542 words)

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